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

Combined HIV antigen and antibody blood test

CPT 87389the billing code this page is about

A single laboratory immunoassay that checks a blood sample for HIV-1 antigen together with antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2, reported as one combined result.

Hospitals typically charge $81 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,096 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $84. Most fall between $36 and $149 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,096
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 3,096 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
$24$42$81$131$210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $210).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $24: 161 hospitals$18$24 – $32: 201 hospitals$32 – $42: 286 hospitals$32$42 – $56: 254 hospitals$56 – $74: 354 hospitals$56$74 – $97: 415 hospitals$97 – $128: 471 hospitals$97$128 – $169: 285 hospitals$169 – $223: 246 hospitals$169$223 – $295: 117 hospitals$223median $81price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,790 of 3,096 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$24161
$24$32201
$32$42286
$42$56254
$56$74354
$74$97415
$97$128471
$128$169285
$169$223246
$223$295117

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $81.

Alaska: median $87 across 18 hospitalsAK$87Maine: median $38 across 24 hospitalsME$38Vermont: median $98 across 11 hospitalsVT$98New Hampshire: median $111 across 23 hospitalsNH$111Washington: median $102 across 76 hospitalsWA$102Idaho: median $80 across 21 hospitalsID$80Montana: median $83 across 23 hospitalsMT$83North Dakota: median $122 across 30 hospitalsND$122Minnesota: median $74 across 106 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $113 across 140 hospitalsIL$113Wisconsin: median $105 across 103 hospitalsWI$105Michigan: median $41 across 92 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $59 across 115 hospitalsNY$59Massachusetts: median $103 across 51 hospitalsMA$103Oregon: median $80 across 49 hospitalsOR$80Nevada: median $118 across 19 hospitalsNV$118Wyoming: median $61 across 11 hospitalsWY$61South Dakota: median $96 across 31 hospitalsSD$96Iowa: median $73 across 84 hospitalsIA$73Indiana: median $58 across 90 hospitalsIN$58Ohio: median $74 across 136 hospitalsOH$74Pennsylvania: median $98 across 112 hospitalsPA$98New Jersey: median $28 across 52 hospitalsNJ$28Connecticut: median $77 across 22 hospitalsCT$77Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $87 across 150 hospitalsCA$87Utah: median $105 across 42 hospitalsUT$105Colorado: median $84 across 58 hospitalsCO$84Nebraska: median $98 across 75 hospitalsNE$98Missouri: median $70 across 71 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $77 across 60 hospitalsKY$77West Virginia: median $71 across 35 hospitalsWV$71Virginia: median $110 across 61 hospitalsVA$110Maryland: median $66 across 40 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $83 across 37 hospitalsAZ$83New Mexico: median $73 across 21 hospitalsNM$73Kansas: median $85 across 73 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: median $47 across 37 hospitalsAR$47Tennessee: median $58 across 72 hospitalsTN$58North Carolina: median $66 across 86 hospitalsNC$66South Carolina: median $118 across 47 hospitalsSC$118Oklahoma: median $47 across 68 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: median $52 across 49 hospitalsLA$52Mississippi: median $41 across 48 hospitalsMS$41Alabama: median $70 across 32 hospitalsAL$70Georgia: median $88 across 98 hospitalsGA$88Hawaii: median $185 across 20 hospitalsHI$185Texas: median $133 across 220 hospitalsTX$133Florida: median $78 across 141 hospitalsFL$78
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $81. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI20$185+129%$31 – $195
Texas TX220$133+64%$41 – $204
North Dakota ND30$122+51%$43 – $167
Nevada NV19$118+46%$32 – $220
South Carolina SC47$118+46%$79 – $144
Illinois IL140$113+39%$60 – $210
New Hampshire NH23$111+37%$39 – $205
Virginia VA61$110+36%$64 – $208
Utah UT42$105+30%$81 – $143
Wisconsin WI103$105+29%$89 – $149
Massachusetts MA51$103+27%$62 – $194
Washington WA76$102+25%$61 – $145
Vermont VT11$98+21%$41 – $203
Nebraska NE75$98+21%$59 – $137
Pennsylvania PA112$98+20%$37 – $215
South Dakota SD31$96+19%$62 – $130
Georgia GA98$88+9%$38 – $130
Alaska AK18$87+8%$67 – $197
California CA150$87+8%$14 – $235
Kansas KS73$85+5%$56 – $120
Colorado CO58$84+4%$50 – $129
Montana MT23$83+3%$29 – $103
Arizona AZ37$83+2%$44 – $214
Idaho ID21$80−1%$32 – $105
Oregon OR49$80−1%$56 – $116
Florida FL141$78−3%$25 – $176
Connecticut CT22$77−5%$68 – $144
Kentucky KY60$77−5%$41 – $241
Minnesota MN106$74−9%$38 – $112
Ohio OH136$74−9%$34 – $108
Iowa IA84$73−10%$39 – $115
New Mexico NM21$73−10%$62 – $130
West Virginia WV35$71−12%$38 – $126
Missouri MO71$70−13%$53 – $111
Alabama AL32$70−14%$36 – $253
Maryland MD40$66−18%$52 – $81
North Carolina NC86$66−19%$25 – $172
Wyoming WY11$61−25%$33 – $90
New York NY115$59−27%$24 – $118
Indiana IN90$58−28%$30 – $81
Tennessee TN72$58−28%$42 – $111
Louisiana LA49$52−36%$34 – $111
Arkansas AR37$47−41%$21 – $84
Oklahoma OK68$47−42%$27 – $75
Michigan MI92$41−49%$24 – $149
Mississippi MS48$41−50%$29 – $57
Maine ME24$38−53%$25 – $147
New Jersey NJ52$28−66%$24 – $70
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $81.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,153$77$34 – $155
Children’s61$101$65 – $197
Critical access872$87$46 – $141
Ownership
For-profit393$102$37 – $238
Government561$80$40 – $133
Non-profit2,132$79$36 – $145
System affiliation
Part of a system2,530$82$36 – $158
Independent566$80$39 – $130

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$130
Median cash price$81
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,097 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $83 and the average of the middle 60% is $86; most fall between $38 and $149.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,097 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
$25$43$83$135$204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $204).

Of the 2,318 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,097 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,096 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,375 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,096
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here151
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,375

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 HIV-1 AG W/HIV-1&-2 AB AG IA.

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, “Combined HIV antigen and antibody blood test (CPT 87389) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87389-combined-hiv-antigen-and-antibody-blood-test