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Donor-recipient cell crossmatch with titration

CPT 86805the billing code this page is about

A transplant compatibility test in which recipient serum is mixed with donor lymphocytes and read under a microscope, including dilutions of the serum to gauge antibody strength.

Hospitals typically charge $286 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 429 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $310. Most fall between $181 and $511 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
429
States
41
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 429 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
$125$190$286$502$850

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $850).

How the prices are spread

$91 – $117: 16 hospitals$91$117 – $149: 25 hospitals$149 – $190: 59 hospitals$149$190 – $243: 65 hospitals$243 – $310: 41 hospitals$243$310 – $396: 54 hospitals$396 – $506: 43 hospitals$396$506 – $647: 43 hospitals$647 – $826: 16 hospitals$647$826 – $1,055: 25 hospitals$826median $286price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (387 of 429 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$91$11716
$117$14925
$149$19059
$190$24365
$243$31041
$310$39654
$396$50643
$506$64743
$647$82616
$826$1,05525

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $286.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $255 across 20 hospitalsIL$255Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $70 across 10 hospitalsMI$70New York: median $190 across 22 hospitalsNY$190Massachusetts: median $589 across 13 hospitalsMA$589Oregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 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 $379 across 12 hospitalsIA$379Indiana: median $196 across 14 hospitalsIN$196Ohio: median $473 across 27 hospitalsOH$473Pennsylvania: median $218 across 42 hospitalsPA$218New Jersey: median $208 across 26 hospitalsNJ$208Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $510 across 26 hospitalsCA$510Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $300 across 11 hospitalsVA$300Maryland: median $285 across 13 hospitalsMD$285Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $160 across 10 hospitalsTN$160North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $332 across 17 hospitalsOK$332Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $370 across 69 hospitalsTX$370Florida: median $265 across 24 hospitalsFL$265
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $286. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA13$589+106%$503 – $667
California CA26$510+78%$310 – $510
Ohio OH27$473+65%$191 – $850
Iowa IA12$379+32%$379 – $379
Texas TX69$370+29%$241 – $500
Oklahoma OK17$332+16%$225 – $332
Virginia VA11$300+5%$213 – $502
Maryland MD13$2850%$157 – $391
Florida FL24$265−7%$116 – $413
Illinois IL20$255−11%$70 – $489
Pennsylvania PA42$218−24%$152 – $1,055
New Jersey NJ26$208−27%$190 – $208
Indiana IN14$196−32%$175 – $408
New York NY22$190−34%$190 – $480
Tennessee TN10$160−44%$97 – $200
Michigan MI10$70−76%$62 – $262
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $286.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care386$284$189 – $510
Children’s21$548$224 – $728
Critical access22$286$140 – $529
Ownership
For-profit46$370$189 – $751
Government35$190$126 – $333
Non-profit348$286$189 – $510
System affiliation
Part of a system386$289$189 – $510
Independent43$236$163 – $569

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$568
Median cash price$286
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

291 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $370 and the average of the middle 60% is $356; most fall between $193 and $572.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 291 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
$142$218$370$510$850

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($142 vs $850).

Of the 312 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 291 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

429 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 457 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted429
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code457

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY ASSAY.

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, “Donor-recipient cell crossmatch with titration (CPT 86805) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86805-donor-recipient-cell-crossmatch-with-titration