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

Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA test using amplification

CPT 87486the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that detects genetic material of the lung bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae in a specimen using an amplification method, reported as present or not present.

Hospitals typically charge $105 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,219 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $114. Most fall between $49 and $227 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,219
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,219 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
$35$59$105$186$344

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $344).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $35: 137 hospitals$26$35 – $47: 167 hospitals$47 – $63: 208 hospitals$47$63 – $84: 238 hospitals$84 – $112: 303 hospitals$84$112 – $149: 293 hospitals$149 – $199: 248 hospitals$149$199 – $266: 164 hospitals$266 – $356: 155 hospitals$266$356 – $475: 88 hospitals$356median $105price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,001 of 2,219 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$35137
$35$47167
$47$63208
$63$84238
$84$112303
$112$149293
$149$199248
$199$266164
$266$356155
$356$47588

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $105.

Alaska: median $117 across 12 hospitalsAK$117Maine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $112 across 15 hospitalsNH$112Washington: median $133 across 53 hospitalsWA$133Idaho: median $118 across 13 hospitalsID$118Montana: median $88 across 16 hospitalsMT$88North Dakota: median $208 across 22 hospitalsND$208Minnesota: median $90 across 53 hospitalsMN$90Illinois: median $122 across 110 hospitalsIL$122Wisconsin: median $143 across 55 hospitalsWI$143Michigan: median $68 across 51 hospitalsMI$68New York: median $86 across 88 hospitalsNY$86Massachusetts: median $115 across 40 hospitalsMA$115Oregon: median $121 across 30 hospitalsOR$121Nevada: median $160 across 14 hospitalsNV$160Wyoming: median $158 across 14 hospitalsWY$158South Dakota: median $64 across 12 hospitalsSD$64Iowa: median $74 across 45 hospitalsIA$74Indiana: median $79 across 60 hospitalsIN$79Ohio: median $96 across 109 hospitalsOH$96Pennsylvania: median $141 across 89 hospitalsPA$141New Jersey: median $40 across 50 hospitalsNJ$40Connecticut: median $126 across 11 hospitalsCT$126Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $90 across 118 hospitalsCA$90Utah: median $115 across 36 hospitalsUT$115Colorado: median $107 across 44 hospitalsCO$107Nebraska: median $102 across 52 hospitalsNE$102Missouri: median $101 across 59 hospitalsMO$101Kentucky: median $101 across 41 hospitalsKY$101West Virginia: median $91 across 24 hospitalsWV$91Virginia: median $104 across 50 hospitalsVA$104Maryland: median $345 across 33 hospitalsMD$345Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $254 across 31 hospitalsAZ$254New Mexico: median $172 across 19 hospitalsNM$172Kansas: median $138 across 33 hospitalsKS$138Arkansas: median $23 across 31 hospitalsAR$23Tennessee: median $62 across 69 hospitalsTN$62North Carolina: median $131 across 52 hospitalsNC$131South Carolina: median $180 across 35 hospitalsSC$180Oklahoma: median $115 across 56 hospitalsOK$115Louisiana: median $62 across 44 hospitalsLA$62Mississippi: median $61 across 35 hospitalsMS$61Alabama: median $64 across 34 hospitalsAL$64Georgia: median $81 across 63 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $125 across 14 hospitalsHI$125Texas: median $173 across 178 hospitalsTX$173Florida: median $69 across 91 hospitalsFL$69
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $105. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD33$345+228%$257 – $390
Arizona AZ31$254+142%$53 – $345
North Dakota ND22$208+98%$150 – $251
South Carolina SC35$180+71%$87 – $230
Texas TX178$173+65%$48 – $295
New Mexico NM19$172+64%$108 – $232
Nevada NV14$160+52%$43 – $253
Wyoming WY14$158+50%$74 – $240
Wisconsin WI55$143+36%$64 – $199
Pennsylvania PA89$141+34%$50 – $371
Kansas KS33$138+32%$63 – $333
Washington WA53$133+26%$71 – $220
North Carolina NC52$131+24%$37 – $279
Connecticut CT11$126+20%$107 – $181
Hawaii HI14$125+19%$47 – $242
Illinois IL110$122+16%$60 – $216
Oregon OR30$121+15%$71 – $162
Idaho ID13$118+13%$115 – $142
Alaska AK12$117+11%$90 – $148
Oklahoma OK56$115+10%$74 – $165
Massachusetts MA40$115+10%$87 – $153
Utah UT36$115+9%$96 – $135
New Hampshire NH15$112+7%$17 – $196
Colorado CO44$107+2%$40 – $778
Virginia VA50$104−1%$83 – $390
Nebraska NE52$102−3%$68 – $186
Missouri MO59$101−3%$57 – $161
Kentucky KY41$101−4%$58 – $176
Ohio OH109$96−9%$50 – $228
West Virginia WV24$91−13%$66 – $176
California CA118$90−14%$61 – $243
Minnesota MN53$90−15%$35 – $250
Montana MT16$88−16%$69 – $139
New York NY88$86−18%$35 – $158
Georgia GA63$81−23%$50 – $161
Indiana IN60$79−25%$57 – $141
Iowa IA45$74−30%$58 – $157
Florida FL91$69−34%$28 – $171
Michigan MI51$68−35%$48 – $104
Alabama AL34$64−39%$34 – $315
South Dakota SD12$64−39%$46 – $194
Louisiana LA44$62−41%$24 – $131
Tennessee TN69$62−41%$39 – $161
Mississippi MS35$61−42%$30 – $108
New Jersey NJ50$40−62%$35 – $217
Arkansas AR31$23−78%$23 – $101
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $105.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,691$101$47 – $238
Children’s43$95$44 – $204
Critical access477$115$60 – $211
Ownership
For-profit302$134$53 – $345
Government361$94$47 – $197
Non-profit1,548$103$49 – $216
System affiliation
Part of a system1,871$108$49 – $237
Independent348$91$49 – $181

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$183
Median cash price$105
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

1,525 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $114 and the average of the middle 60% is $122; most fall between $58 and $231.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,525 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
$38$64$114$198$307

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $307).

Of the 1,686 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,525 gave a usable cash price; 85 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 76 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,219 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,416 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,219
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here109
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded86
Hospitals that filed this code2,416

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 CHLMYD PNEUM DNA AMP PROBE.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA test using amplification (CPT 87486) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87486-chlamydia-pneumoniae-dna-test-using-amplification