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

Rapid RSV test read by eye

CPT 87807the billing code this page is about

A quick antigen test for respiratory syncytial virus from a nose or throat specimen, with the result read visually at the time of testing.

Hospitals typically charge $67 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,071 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $71. Most fall between $30 and $131 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,071
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,071 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
$19$35$67$115$206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $206).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 89 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 140 hospitals$26 – $35: 180 hospitals$26$35 – $48: 223 hospitals$48 – $66: 293 hospitals$48$66 – $91: 300 hospitals$91 – $125: 294 hospitals$91$125 – $172: 176 hospitals$172 – $236: 125 hospitals$172$236 – $325: 45 hospitals$236median $67price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,865 of 2,071 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$1989
$19$26140
$26$35180
$35$48223
$48$66293
$66$91300
$91$125294
$125$172176
$172$236125
$236$32545

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $67.

Alaska: median $83 across 13 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $53 across 11 hospitalsME$53Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $86 across 11 hospitalsNH$86Washington: median $59 across 39 hospitalsWA$59Idaho: median $58 across 16 hospitalsID$58Montana: median $42 across 14 hospitalsMT$42North Dakota: median $79 across 25 hospitalsND$79Minnesota: median $52 across 48 hospitalsMN$52Illinois: median $110 across 96 hospitalsIL$110Wisconsin: median $81 across 51 hospitalsWI$81Michigan: median $37 across 80 hospitalsMI$37New York: median $31 across 68 hospitalsNY$31Massachusetts: median $64 across 27 hospitalsMA$64Oregon: median $69 across 29 hospitalsOR$69Nevada: median $60 across 11 hospitalsNV$60Wyoming: median $40 across 12 hospitalsWY$40South Dakota: median $129 across 27 hospitalsSD$129Iowa: median $44 across 53 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $69 across 73 hospitalsIN$69Ohio: median $74 across 94 hospitalsOH$74Pennsylvania: median $74 across 64 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $14 across 43 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: 8 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 $107 across 76 hospitalsCA$107Utah: median $74 across 29 hospitalsUT$74Colorado: median $65 across 51 hospitalsCO$65Nebraska: median $87 across 50 hospitalsNE$87Missouri: median $71 across 62 hospitalsMO$71Kentucky: median $71 across 50 hospitalsKY$71West Virginia: median $34 across 30 hospitalsWV$34Virginia: median $65 across 49 hospitalsVA$65Maryland: median $52 across 11 hospitalsMD$52Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $174 across 29 hospitalsAZ$174New Mexico: median $58 across 12 hospitalsNM$58Kansas: median $52 across 49 hospitalsKS$52Arkansas: median $28 across 19 hospitalsAR$28Tennessee: median $35 across 55 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $43 across 68 hospitalsNC$43South Carolina: median $92 across 43 hospitalsSC$92Oklahoma: median $53 across 63 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $44 across 35 hospitalsLA$44Mississippi: median $39 across 43 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $42 across 25 hospitalsAL$42Georgia: median $53 across 64 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: median $73 across 12 hospitalsHI$73Texas: median $107 across 155 hospitalsTX$107Florida: median $123 across 67 hospitalsFL$123
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $67. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ29$174+160%$22 – $230
South Dakota SD27$129+93%$60 – $272
Florida FL67$123+84%$47 – $371
Illinois IL96$110+65%$51 – $178
Texas TX155$107+61%$52 – $225
California CA76$107+60%$60 – $132
South Carolina SC43$92+38%$62 – $128
Nebraska NE50$87+30%$34 – $162
New Hampshire NH11$86+28%$62 – $144
Alaska AK13$83+24%$62 – $123
Wisconsin WI51$81+21%$51 – $105
North Dakota ND25$79+18%$65 – $95
Utah UT29$74+11%$61 – $87
Ohio OH94$74+10%$59 – $154
Pennsylvania PA64$74+10%$13 – $188
Hawaii HI12$73+9%$26 – $105
Missouri MO62$71+7%$42 – $120
Kentucky KY50$71+6%$39 – $143
Indiana IN73$69+3%$19 – $148
Oregon OR29$69+3%$49 – $102
Colorado CO51$65−3%$43 – $112
Virginia VA49$65−3%$41 – $190
Massachusetts MA27$64−4%$31 – $129
Nevada NV11$60−10%$40 – $64
Washington WA39$59−12%$50 – $151
Idaho ID16$58−13%$34 – $71
New Mexico NM12$58−14%$25 – $119
Maine ME11$53−21%$21 – $71
Oklahoma OK63$53−21%$26 – $99
Georgia GA64$53−21%$33 – $123
Maryland MD11$52−22%$33 – $80
Kansas KS49$52−22%$30 – $90
Minnesota MN48$52−23%$41 – $116
Louisiana LA35$44−34%$18 – $77
Iowa IA53$44−34%$37 – $95
North Carolina NC68$43−36%$26 – $130
Alabama AL25$42−37%$16 – $88
Montana MT14$42−37%$21 – $103
Wyoming WY12$40−40%$28 – $118
Mississippi MS43$39−42%$24 – $73
Michigan MI80$37−45%$16 – $93
Tennessee TN55$35−47%$21 – $71
West Virginia WV30$34−49%$24 – $53
New York NY68$31−54%$15 – $99
Arkansas AR19$28−58%$19 – $111
New Jersey NJ43$14−78%$13 – $37
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $67.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,441$65$27 – $133
Children’s38$98$61 – $123
Critical access584$67$34 – $126
Ownership
For-profit263$97$35 – $329
Government378$51$29 – $107
Non-profit1,422$70$30 – $128
System affiliation
Part of a system1,712$70$31 – $135
Independent359$56$29 – $118

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$119
Median cash price$67
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

1,420 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $74 and the average of the middle 60% is $76; most fall between $34 and $134.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,420 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
$23$39$74$119$212

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $212).

Of the 1,564 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,420 gave a usable cash price; 81 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,071 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,262 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,071
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) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded78
Hospitals that filed this code2,262

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 Iaadiadoo Respiratory Synctial Virus.

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 RSV test read by eye (CPT 87807) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87807-rapid-rsv-test-read-by-eye