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

Rapid adenovirus test read by eye

CPT 87809the billing code this page is about

A quick antigen test for adenovirus from a swab or other specimen, with the result read visually at the time of testing.

Hospitals typically charge $44 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 228 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $22 and $94 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
228
States
35
Filings dated
Apr 2025 – 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 228 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$24$44$94$129

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $129).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $19: 12 hospitals$15$19 – $25: 39 hospitals$25 – $32: 19 hospitals$25$32 – $40: 22 hospitals$40 – $51: 21 hospitals$40$51 – $65: 21 hospitals$65 – $83: 22 hospitals$65$83 – $106: 36 hospitals$106 – $136: 7 hospitals$106$136 – $173: 8 hospitals$136median $44price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (207 of 228 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$1912
$19$2539
$25$3219
$32$4022
$40$5121
$51$6521
$65$8322
$83$10636
$106$1367
$136$1738

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $44.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $53 across 25 hospitalsNY$53Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $44 across 11 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $17 across 15 hospitalsPA$17New Jersey: median $24 across 23 hospitalsNJ$24Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $94 across 34 hospitalsCA$94Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $39 across 12 hospitalsOK$39Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $99 across 31 hospitalsTX$99Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $44. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX31$99+124%$99 – $134
California CA34$94+114%$83 – $94
New York NY25$53+21%$22 – $53
Iowa IA11$440%$44 – $44
Oklahoma OK12$39−12%$39 – $39
New Jersey NJ23$24−46%$22 – $24
Pennsylvania PA15$17−61%$15 – $29
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $44.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care202$44$22 – $94
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access22$54$16 – $145
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government26$25$22 – $53
Non-profit186$48$24 – $94
System affiliation
Part of a system196$44$22 – $94
Independent32$35$24 – $81

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$88
Median cash price$44
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

128 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $83 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $39 and $99.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 128 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
$29$39$83$99$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $134).

Of the 137 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 128 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

228 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 236 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted228
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code236

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 ADENOVIRUS ASSAY W/OPTIC.

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 adenovirus test read by eye (CPT 87809) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87809-rapid-adenovirus-test-read-by-eye