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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Histoplasma fungus antigen test

CPT 87385the billing code this page is about

A laboratory immunoassay that looks for antigen from the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum in a sample such as urine or blood, to detect histoplasmosis infection.

Hospitals typically charge $107 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,759 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $113. Most fall between $48 and $209 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,759
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,759 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$27$58$107$178$331

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $331).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $23: 97 hospitals$17$23 – $33: 113 hospitals$33 – $46: 190 hospitals$33$46 – $65: 245 hospitals$65 – $91: 402 hospitals$65$91 – $127: 408 hospitals$127 – $178: 485 hospitals$127$178 – $250: 255 hospitals$250 – $351: 174 hospitals$250$351 – $492: 120 hospitals$351median $107price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,489 of 2,759 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2397
$23$33113
$33$46190
$46$65245
$65$91402
$91$127408
$127$178485
$178$250255
$250$351174
$351$492120

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $107.

Alaska: median $95 across 13 hospitalsAK$95Maine: median $64 across 20 hospitalsME$64Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $119 across 20 hospitalsNH$119Washington: median $106 across 56 hospitalsWA$106Idaho: median $100 across 17 hospitalsID$100Montana: median $111 across 13 hospitalsMT$111North Dakota: median $61 across 16 hospitalsND$61Minnesota: median $85 across 74 hospitalsMN$85Illinois: median $152 across 136 hospitalsIL$152Wisconsin: median $129 across 97 hospitalsWI$129Michigan: median $57 across 57 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $55 across 89 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $106 across 40 hospitalsMA$106Oregon: median $120 across 34 hospitalsOR$120Nevada: median $77 across 15 hospitalsNV$77Wyoming: median $108 across 11 hospitalsWY$108South Dakota: median $277 across 26 hospitalsSD$277Iowa: median $138 across 75 hospitalsIA$138Indiana: median $121 across 96 hospitalsIN$121Ohio: median $121 across 128 hospitalsOH$121Pennsylvania: median $76 across 109 hospitalsPA$76New Jersey: median $15 across 52 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $73 across 16 hospitalsCT$73Rhode Island: median $44 across 10 hospitalsRI$44California: median $56 across 120 hospitalsCA$56Utah: median $369 across 35 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $150 across 44 hospitalsCO$150Nebraska: median $237 across 72 hospitalsNE$237Missouri: median $119 across 67 hospitalsMO$119Kentucky: median $124 across 66 hospitalsKY$124West Virginia: median $65 across 33 hospitalsWV$65Virginia: median $142 across 64 hospitalsVA$142Maryland: median $109 across 39 hospitalsMD$109Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $85 across 36 hospitalsAZ$85New Mexico: median $92 across 18 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $140 across 68 hospitalsKS$140Arkansas: median $88 across 30 hospitalsAR$88Tennessee: median $93 across 78 hospitalsTN$93North Carolina: median $135 across 76 hospitalsNC$135South Carolina: median $205 across 50 hospitalsSC$205Oklahoma: median $113 across 58 hospitalsOK$113Louisiana: median $56 across 44 hospitalsLA$56Mississippi: median $47 across 49 hospitalsMS$47Alabama: median $122 across 37 hospitalsAL$122Georgia: median $135 across 82 hospitalsGA$135Hawaii: median $160 across 15 hospitalsHI$160Texas: median $103 across 206 hospitalsTX$103Florida: median $86 across 140 hospitalsFL$86
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $107. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT35$369+243%$137 – $434
South Dakota SD26$277+158%$88 – $367
Nebraska NE72$237+121%$119 – $345
South Carolina SC50$205+91%$98 – $240
Hawaii HI15$160+49%$75 – $160
Illinois IL136$152+41%$66 – $284
Colorado CO44$150+40%$102 – $263
Virginia VA64$142+32%$58 – $266
Kansas KS68$140+31%$89 – $214
Iowa IA75$138+29%$39 – $220
Georgia GA82$135+26%$67 – $206
North Carolina NC76$135+26%$71 – $188
Wisconsin WI97$129+20%$81 – $171
Kentucky KY66$124+15%$83 – $190
Alabama AL37$122+14%$40 – $590
Ohio OH128$121+13%$59 – $272
Indiana IN96$121+12%$40 – $240
Oregon OR34$120+12%$83 – $209
New Hampshire NH20$119+11%$62 – $210
Missouri MO67$119+11%$80 – $179
Oklahoma OK58$113+5%$39 – $192
Montana MT13$111+3%$75 – $182
Maryland MD39$109+1%$84 – $130
Wyoming WY11$1080%$89 – $200
Washington WA56$106−1%$57 – $197
Massachusetts MA40$106−1%$38 – $193
Texas TX206$103−4%$68 – $546
Idaho ID17$100−7%$95 – $168
Alaska AK13$95−11%$63 – $196
Tennessee TN78$93−13%$27 – $199
New Mexico NM18$92−14%$48 – $169
Arkansas AR30$88−18%$19 – $163
Florida FL140$86−20%$49 – $158
Arizona AZ36$85−21%$34 – $117
Minnesota MN74$85−21%$53 – $160
Nevada NV15$77−29%$13 – $116
Pennsylvania PA109$76−30%$15 – $290
Connecticut CT16$73−32%$50 – $133
West Virginia WV33$65−39%$55 – $163
Maine ME20$64−40%$32 – $140
North Dakota ND16$61−43%$23 – $83
Michigan MI57$57−47%$19 – $112
Louisiana LA44$56−48%$24 – $148
California CA120$56−48%$35 – $75
New York NY89$55−49%$16 – $133
Mississippi MS49$47−56%$16 – $155
Rhode Island RI10$44−59%$28 – $91
New Jersey NJ52$15−86%$15 – $40
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $107.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,048$99$42 – $194
Children’s55$107$56 – $228
Critical access646$138$65 – $260
Ownership
For-profit403$118$62 – $524
Government452$124$59 – $224
Non-profit1,894$102$43 – $185
System affiliation
Part of a system2,309$106$46 – $210
Independent450$112$55 – $209

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$176
Median cash price$107
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,903 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $105 and the average of the middle 60% is $109; most fall between $50 and $197.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,903 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$33$59$105$171$299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $299).

Of the 2,096 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,903 gave a usable cash price; 107 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,759 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,008 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,759
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here145
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code3,008

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Histo Wheat Ag, Urine.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Histoplasma fungus antigen test (CPT 87385) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87385-histoplasma-fungus-antigen-test