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

Flow crossmatch for transplant, first serum sample

CPT 86825the billing code this page is about

A non-cytotoxic crossmatch, usually by flow cytometry, checking recipient serum against donor cells for transplant compatibility; covers the first serum sample or dilution.

Hospitals typically charge $294 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 759 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $330. Most fall between $126 and $630 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
759
States
48
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 759 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
$106$143$294$553$927

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $927).

How the prices are spread

$78 – $102: 35 hospitals$78$102 – $133: 92 hospitals$133 – $173: 70 hospitals$133$173 – $226: 58 hospitals$226 – $294: 95 hospitals$226$294 – $384: 57 hospitals$384 – $500: 65 hospitals$384$500 – $652: 104 hospitals$652 – $849: 40 hospitals$652$849 – $1,107: 72 hospitals$849median $294price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (688 of 759 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$78$10235
$102$13392
$133$17370
$173$22658
$226$29495
$294$38457
$384$50065
$500$652104
$652$84940
$849$1,10772

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $294.

Alaska: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $239 across 16 hospitalsWA$239Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $543 across 20 hospitalsMN$543Illinois: median $265 across 25 hospitalsIL$265Wisconsin: median $233 across 16 hospitalsWI$233Michigan: median $151 across 13 hospitalsMI$151New York: median $126 across 28 hospitalsNY$126Massachusetts: median $385 across 15 hospitalsMA$385Oregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $142 across 14 hospitalsIA$142Indiana: median $175 across 25 hospitalsIN$175Ohio: median $430 across 34 hospitalsOH$430Pennsylvania: median $198 across 48 hospitalsPA$198New Jersey: median $120 across 24 hospitalsNJ$120Connecticut: 6 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 $733 across 45 hospitalsCA$733Utah: median $941 across 24 hospitalsUT$941Colorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $967 across 13 hospitalsMO$967Kentucky: 6 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 $463 across 21 hospitalsVA$463Maryland: median $144 across 14 hospitalsMD$144Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $371 across 16 hospitalsAZ$371New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $106 across 17 hospitalsTN$106North Carolina: median $247 across 54 hospitalsNC$247South Carolina: median $630 across 16 hospitalsSC$630Oklahoma: median $328 across 16 hospitalsOK$328Louisiana: median $85 across 15 hospitalsLA$85Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $332 across 39 hospitalsGA$332Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $350 across 93 hospitalsTX$350Florida: median $107 across 34 hospitalsFL$107
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $294. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Missouri MO13$967+230%$165 – $967
Utah UT24$941+221%$941 – $1,107
California CA45$733+150%$190 – $924
South Carolina SC16$630+115%$241 – $630
Minnesota MN20$543+85%$501 – $576
Virginia VA21$463+58%$463 – $818
Ohio OH34$430+46%$343 – $491
Massachusetts MA15$385+31%$243 – $840
Arizona AZ16$371+26%$120 – $488
Texas TX93$350+19%$165 – $549
Georgia GA39$332+13%$255 – $860
Oklahoma OK16$328+12%$192 – $434
Illinois IL25$265−10%$173 – $515
North Carolina NC54$247−16%$176 – $927
Washington WA16$239−19%$110 – $420
Wisconsin WI16$233−21%$233 – $545
Pennsylvania PA48$198−33%$109 – $608
Indiana IN25$175−40%$154 – $233
Michigan MI13$151−49%$109 – $1,132
Maryland MD14$144−51%$109 – $925
Iowa IA14$142−52%$142 – $300
New York NY28$126−57%$109 – $387
New Jersey NJ24$120−59%$109 – $120
Florida FL34$107−63%$64 – $301
Tennessee TN17$106−64%$98 – $142
Louisiana LA15$85−71%$57 – $108
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $294.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care681$291$126 – $608
Children’s32$601$150 – $1,015
Critical access44$247$120 – $655
Ownership
For-profit80$333$171 – $725
Government92$228$109 – $400
Non-profit585$324$126 – $655
System affiliation
Part of a system708$289$126 – $630
Independent51$342$150 – $733

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$563
Median cash price$294
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

563 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $362 and the average of the middle 60% is $389; most fall between $165 and $738.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 563 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
$126$205$362$608$925

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $925).

Of the 616 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 563 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

759 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 809 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted759
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code809

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 HC Pre Ht: Crossmatch Flw Cytometry (055).

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, “Flow crossmatch for transplant, first serum sample (CPT 86825) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86825-flow-crossmatch-for-transplant-first-serum-sample