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

HIV-1 antigen test

CPT 87390the billing code this page is about

A laboratory immunoassay that looks for HIV-1 antigen (viral protein) in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $87 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 764 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $102. Most fall between $35 and $223 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
764
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 764 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$40$87$187$376

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $376).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $28: 82 hospitals$20$28 – $39: 65 hospitals$39 – $54: 89 hospitals$39$54 – $76: 77 hospitals$76 – $105: 71 hospitals$76$105 – $145: 89 hospitals$145 – $201: 69 hospitals$145$201 – $279: 83 hospitals$279 – $388: 37 hospitals$279$388 – $538: 30 hospitals$388median $87price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (692 of 764 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2882
$28$3965
$39$5489
$54$7677
$76$10571
$105$14589
$145$20169
$201$27983
$279$38837
$388$53830

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $87.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $101 across 22 hospitalsWA$101Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $105 across 37 hospitalsIL$105Wisconsin: median $376 across 13 hospitalsWI$376Michigan: median $43 across 29 hospitalsMI$43New York: median $33 across 29 hospitalsNY$33Massachusetts: median $50 across 12 hospitalsMA$50Oregon: median $84 across 16 hospitalsOR$84Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $39 across 15 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: median $47 across 46 hospitalsIN$47Ohio: median $63 across 34 hospitalsOH$63Pennsylvania: median $90 across 53 hospitalsPA$90New Jersey: median $26 across 38 hospitalsNJ$26Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $180 across 51 hospitalsCA$180Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $101 across 15 hospitalsCO$101Nebraska: median $124 across 20 hospitalsNE$124Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $62 across 10 hospitalsKY$62West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $63 across 16 hospitalsTN$63North Carolina: median $166 across 16 hospitalsNC$166South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $43 across 19 hospitalsOK$43Louisiana: median $41 across 13 hospitalsLA$41Mississippi: median $99 across 10 hospitalsMS$99Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $223 across 25 hospitalsGA$223Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $153 across 59 hospitalsTX$153Florida: median $83 across 45 hospitalsFL$83
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $87. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI13$376+331%$125 – $376
Georgia GA25$223+156%$55 – $223
California CA51$180+106%$141 – $216
North Carolina NC16$166+90%$140 – $166
Texas TX59$153+75%$99 – $564
Nebraska NE20$124+42%$40 – $538
Illinois IL37$105+20%$41 – $251
Colorado CO15$101+16%$92 – $418
Washington WA22$101+15%$59 – $117
Mississippi MS10$99+14%$34 – $230
Pennsylvania PA53$90+3%$24 – $229
Oregon OR16$84−4%$73 – $256
Florida FL45$83−5%$32 – $205
Ohio OH34$63−28%$57 – $154
Tennessee TN16$63−28%$31 – $488
Kentucky KY10$62−30%$23 – $147
Massachusetts MA12$50−43%$37 – $183
Indiana IN46$47−46%$26 – $76
Oklahoma OK19$43−51%$43 – $72
Michigan MI29$43−51%$18 – $53
Louisiana LA13$41−53%$22 – $109
Iowa IA15$39−56%$39 – $39
New York NY29$33−63%$24 – $75
New Jersey NJ38$26−70%$24 – $99
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $87.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care609$87$31 – $223
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access136$93$49 – $201
Ownership
For-profit132$130$35 – $409
Government98$73$31 – $146
Non-profit533$87$35 – $216
System affiliation
Part of a system639$87$35 – $223
Independent125$90$36 – $221

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$167
Median cash price$87
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

479 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $101 and the average of the middle 60% is $114; most fall between $43 and $223.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 479 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
$30$50$101$206$311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $311).

Of the 512 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 479 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

764 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 809 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted764
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code809

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 September 4, 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 Hcc Hiv - 1 Antigen.

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, “HIV-1 antigen test (CPT 87390) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87390-hiv-1-antigen-test