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

Rapid HIV antigen and antibody test read by eye

CPT 87806the billing code this page is about

A quick test that looks for HIV-1 antigen along with antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in one step, with the result read visually at the time of testing.

Hospitals typically charge $85 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,006 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $91. Most fall between $39 and $175 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,006
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 1,006 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
$31$48$85$153$276

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $276).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $34: 107 hospitals$26$34 – $44: 80 hospitals$44 – $58: 92 hospitals$44$58 – $75: 120 hospitals$75 – $97: 132 hospitals$75$97 – $126: 110 hospitals$126 – $163: 85 hospitals$126$163 – $212: 90 hospitals$212 – $275: 40 hospitals$212$275 – $356: 53 hospitals$275median $85price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (909 of 1,006 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$34107
$34$4480
$44$5892
$58$75120
$75$97132
$97$126110
$126$16385
$163$21290
$212$27540
$275$35653

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $85.

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: median $158 across 11 hospitalsNH$158Washington: median $72 across 21 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $69 across 17 hospitalsMN$69Illinois: median $67 across 38 hospitalsIL$67Wisconsin: median $75 across 37 hospitalsWI$75Michigan: median $60 across 23 hospitalsMI$60New York: median $39 across 35 hospitalsNY$39Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $100 across 10 hospitalsOR$100Nevada: 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: median $109 across 24 hospitalsSD$109Iowa: median $67 across 22 hospitalsIA$67Indiana: median $63 across 55 hospitalsIN$63Ohio: median $84 across 47 hospitalsOH$84Pennsylvania: median $67 across 46 hospitalsPA$67New Jersey: median $36 across 34 hospitalsNJ$36Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $111 across 81 hospitalsCA$111Utah: median $27 across 23 hospitalsUT$27Colorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $89 across 28 hospitalsNE$89Missouri: median $59 across 25 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $91 across 28 hospitalsKY$91West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $98 across 35 hospitalsVA$98Maryland: median $81 across 10 hospitalsMD$81Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: median $93 across 19 hospitalsKS$93Arkansas: median $92 across 12 hospitalsAR$92Tennessee: median $43 across 20 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $51 across 29 hospitalsNC$51South Carolina: median $53 across 23 hospitalsSC$53Oklahoma: median $94 across 11 hospitalsOK$94Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $51 across 10 hospitalsMS$51Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $48 across 26 hospitalsGA$48Hawaii: median $148 across 12 hospitalsHI$148Texas: median $175 across 52 hospitalsTX$175Florida: median $147 across 72 hospitalsFL$147
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $85. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX52$175+107%$137 – $207
New Hampshire NH11$158+86%$36 – $309
Hawaii HI12$148+74%$89 – $167
Florida FL72$147+73%$62 – $285
California CA81$111+31%$44 – $260
South Dakota SD24$109+28%$75 – $203
Oregon OR10$100+18%$84 – $136
Virginia VA35$98+16%$40 – $352
Oklahoma OK11$94+10%$90 – $123
Kansas KS19$93+10%$65 – $349
Arkansas AR12$92+8%$63 – $106
Kentucky KY28$91+7%$36 – $555
Nebraska NE28$89+4%$61 – $117
Ohio OH47$84−1%$66 – $114
Maryland MD10$81−4%$69 – $113
Wisconsin WI37$75−12%$66 – $155
Washington WA21$72−15%$29 – $157
Minnesota MN17$69−19%$69 – $115
Pennsylvania PA46$67−21%$25 – $182
Iowa IA22$67−21%$67 – $91
Illinois IL38$67−21%$31 – $133
Indiana IN55$63−25%$33 – $75
Michigan MI23$60−29%$42 – $151
Missouri MO25$59−30%$54 – $88
South Carolina SC23$53−37%$53 – $200
North Carolina NC29$51−40%$34 – $61
Mississippi MS10$51−40%$36 – $97
Georgia GA26$48−43%$48 – $215
Tennessee TN20$43−50%$35 – $89
New York NY35$39−54%$33 – $110
New Jersey NJ34$36−57%$33 – $38
Utah UT23$27−68%$27 – $31
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $85.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care802$82$36 – $182
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access188$86$56 – $138
Ownership
For-profit135$139$48 – $326
Government122$77$46 – $142
Non-profit747$78$38 – $171
System affiliation
Part of a system880$84$38 – $177
Independent126$90$51 – $140

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$150
Median cash price$85
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

693 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $84 and the average of the middle 60% is $93; most fall between $42 and $175.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 693 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$50$84$155$249

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $249).

Of the 750 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 693 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,006 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,074 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,006
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code1,074

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 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 Hc Hiv Antigen And Antibodies.

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, “Rapid HIV antigen and antibody test read by eye (CPT 87806) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87806-rapid-hiv-antigen-and-antibody-test-read-by-eye