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Identifying which red blood cell antibody is present

CPT 86870the billing code this page is about

Follow-up laboratory testing with a panel of reagent red cells to determine the specific red blood cell antibody found on a screening test.

Hospitals typically charge $212 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,280 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $230. Most fall between $95 and $446 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,280
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,280 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
$60$112$212$383$734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $734).

How the prices are spread

$41 – $57: 138 hospitals$41$57 – $79: 198 hospitals$79 – $109: 292 hospitals$79$109 – $151: 376 hospitals$151 – $209: 451 hospitals$151$209 – $288: 437 hospitals$288 – $399: 449 hospitals$288$399 – $552: 293 hospitals$552 – $763: 210 hospitals$552$763 – $1,056: 113 hospitals$763median $212price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,957 of 3,280 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$41$57138
$57$79198
$79$109292
$109$151376
$151$209451
$209$288437
$288$399449
$399$552293
$552$763210
$763$1,056113

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$366
Median cash price$212
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $212.

Alaska: median $329 across 17 hospitalsAK$329Maine: median $157 across 28 hospitalsME$157Vermont: median $165 across 14 hospitalsVT$165New Hampshire: median $202 across 24 hospitalsNH$202Washington: median $209 across 75 hospitalsWA$209Idaho: median $176 across 23 hospitalsID$176Montana: median $264 across 31 hospitalsMT$264North Dakota: median $416 across 30 hospitalsND$416Minnesota: median $150 across 102 hospitalsMN$150Illinois: median $242 across 133 hospitalsIL$242Wisconsin: median $195 across 106 hospitalsWI$195Michigan: median $163 across 92 hospitalsMI$163New York: median $366 across 120 hospitalsNY$366Massachusetts: median $319 across 51 hospitalsMA$319Oregon: median $153 across 49 hospitalsOR$153Nevada: median $176 across 20 hospitalsNV$176Wyoming: median $300 across 15 hospitalsWY$300South Dakota: median $321 across 34 hospitalsSD$321Iowa: median $186 across 84 hospitalsIA$186Indiana: median $235 across 96 hospitalsIN$235Ohio: median $261 across 141 hospitalsOH$261Pennsylvania: median $405 across 122 hospitalsPA$405New Jersey: median $399 across 56 hospitalsNJ$399Connecticut: median $214 across 23 hospitalsCT$214Rhode Island: median $322 across 10 hospitalsRI$322California: median $302 across 159 hospitalsCA$302Utah: median $361 across 40 hospitalsUT$361Colorado: median $348 across 69 hospitalsCO$348Nebraska: median $206 across 77 hospitalsNE$206Missouri: median $224 across 75 hospitalsMO$224Kentucky: median $172 across 67 hospitalsKY$172West Virginia: median $200 across 38 hospitalsWV$200Virginia: median $210 across 71 hospitalsVA$210Maryland: median $79 across 40 hospitalsMD$79Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $257 across 39 hospitalsAZ$257New Mexico: median $299 across 30 hospitalsNM$299Kansas: median $153 across 83 hospitalsKS$153Arkansas: median $116 across 39 hospitalsAR$116Tennessee: median $100 across 82 hospitalsTN$100North Carolina: median $180 across 84 hospitalsNC$180South Carolina: median $248 across 51 hospitalsSC$248Oklahoma: median $145 across 72 hospitalsOK$145Louisiana: median $102 across 52 hospitalsLA$102Mississippi: median $117 across 56 hospitalsMS$117Alabama: median $247 across 41 hospitalsAL$247Georgia: median $131 across 101 hospitalsGA$131Hawaii: median $382 across 19 hospitalsHI$382Texas: median $219 across 236 hospitalsTX$219Florida: median $151 across 156 hospitalsFL$151
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $212. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Dakota ND30$416+96%$189 – $539
Pennsylvania PA122$405+91%$206 – $1,403
New Jersey NJ56$399+88%$102 – $485
Hawaii HI19$382+80%$61 – $476
New York NY120$366+73%$44 – $644
Utah UT40$361+70%$307 – $465
Colorado CO69$348+64%$178 – $828
Alaska AK17$329+55%$82 – $434
Rhode Island RI10$322+52%$311 – $526
South Dakota SD34$321+51%$204 – $431
Massachusetts MA51$319+50%$187 – $750
California CA159$302+42%$58 – $734
Wyoming WY15$300+42%$186 – $469
New Mexico NM30$299+41%$164 – $418
Montana MT31$264+24%$154 – $398
Ohio OH141$261+23%$115 – $497
Arizona AZ39$257+21%$129 – $641
South Carolina SC51$248+17%$172 – $288
Alabama AL41$247+16%$110 – $405
Illinois IL133$242+14%$116 – $409
Indiana IN96$235+11%$117 – $383
Missouri MO75$224+6%$136 – $364
Texas TX236$219+3%$75 – $574
Connecticut CT23$214+1%$113 – $517
Virginia VA71$210−1%$125 – $446
Washington WA75$209−2%$159 – $373
Nebraska NE77$206−3%$118 – $324
New Hampshire NH24$202−5%$105 – $578
West Virginia WV38$200−5%$112 – $644
Wisconsin WI106$195−8%$116 – $343
Iowa IA84$186−12%$86 – $329
North Carolina NC84$180−15%$119 – $281
Idaho ID23$176−17%$114 – $311
Nevada NV20$176−17%$74 – $1,015
Kentucky KY67$172−19%$112 – $315
Vermont VT14$165−22%$145 – $381
Michigan MI92$163−23%$45 – $343
Maine ME28$157−26%$82 – $382
Oregon OR49$153−28%$80 – $286
Kansas KS83$153−28%$105 – $245
Florida FL156$151−29%$95 – $630
Minnesota MN102$150−29%$43 – $243
Oklahoma OK72$145−32%$90 – $309
Georgia GA101$131−38%$53 – $396
Mississippi MS56$117−45%$49 – $172
Arkansas AR39$116−45%$70 – $292
Louisiana LA52$102−52%$29 – $377
Tennessee TN82$100−53%$57 – $283
Maryland MD40$79−63%$64 – $98
Delaware DE7not 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 $212.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,312$220$88 – $490
Children’s62$277$116 – $718
Critical access896$190$106 – $345
Ownership
For-profit466$298$108 – $750
Government602$189$90 – $362
Non-profit2,202$208$94 – $429
System affiliation
Part of a system2,677$215$94 – $450
Independent603$205$98 – $434

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$364
Median cash price$212
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

2,235 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $219 and the average of the middle 60% is $228; most fall between $94 and $431.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,235 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
$59$113$219$366$714

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($59 vs $714).

Of the 2,460 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,235 gave a usable cash price; 120 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,280 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,564 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,280
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here163
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,564

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 July 20, 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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Antibody Panel, Each (Reference Lab).

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Identifying which red blood cell antibody is present (CPT 86870) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86870-identifying-which-red-blood-cell-antibody-is-present