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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Collecting and storing your own blood before surgery

CPT 86890the billing code this page is about

Covers drawing, processing, and storing a patient's own blood donated in advance of a planned operation.

Hospitals typically charge $292 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,452 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $314. Most fall between $152 and $596 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,452
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 1,452 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
$93$172$292$509$963

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($93 vs $963).

How the prices are spread

$72 – $95: 81 hospitals$72$95 – $126: 80 hospitals$126 – $166: 99 hospitals$126$166 – $219: 204 hospitals$219 – $288: 187 hospitals$219$288 – $380: 212 hospitals$380 – $502: 147 hospitals$380$502 – $662: 128 hospitals$662 – $873: 85 hospitals$662$873 – $1,152: 86 hospitals$873median $292price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,309 of 1,452 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$72$9581
$95$12680
$126$16699
$166$219204
$219$288187
$288$380212
$380$502147
$502$662128
$662$87385
$873$1,15286

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$292
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.68×

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 $292.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $351 across 31 hospitalsWA$351Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $266 across 25 hospitalsMN$266Illinois: median $347 across 65 hospitalsIL$347Wisconsin: median $272 across 60 hospitalsWI$272Michigan: median $234 across 36 hospitalsMI$234New York: median $266 across 53 hospitalsNY$266Massachusetts: median $420 across 20 hospitalsMA$420Oregon: median $436 across 23 hospitalsOR$436Nevada: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $165 across 22 hospitalsIA$165Indiana: median $212 across 51 hospitalsIN$212Ohio: median $168 across 69 hospitalsOH$168Pennsylvania: median $259 across 75 hospitalsPA$259New Jersey: median $202 across 36 hospitalsNJ$202Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $338 across 91 hospitalsCA$338Utah: median $1,006 across 26 hospitalsUT$1,006Colorado: median $786 across 25 hospitalsCO$786Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $256 across 36 hospitalsMO$256Kentucky: median $364 across 29 hospitalsKY$364West Virginia: median $265 across 11 hospitalsWV$265Virginia: median $398 across 40 hospitalsVA$398Maryland: median $462 across 21 hospitalsMD$462Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $247 across 22 hospitalsAZ$247New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $366 across 22 hospitalsKS$366Arkansas: median $254 across 14 hospitalsAR$254Tennessee: median $141 across 51 hospitalsTN$141North Carolina: median $267 across 53 hospitalsNC$267South Carolina: median $230 across 15 hospitalsSC$230Oklahoma: median $330 across 29 hospitalsOK$330Louisiana: median $88 across 26 hospitalsLA$88Mississippi: median $144 across 18 hospitalsMS$144Alabama: median $200 across 25 hospitalsAL$200Georgia: median $623 across 61 hospitalsGA$623Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $221 across 111 hospitalsTX$221Florida: median $244 across 75 hospitalsFL$244
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $292. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT26$1,006+244%$1,006 – $1,183
Colorado CO25$786+169%$415 – $917
Georgia GA61$623+113%$340 – $1,054
Maryland MD21$462+58%$324 – $532
Oregon OR23$436+49%$296 – $540
Massachusetts MA20$420+44%$254 – $576
Virginia VA40$398+36%$158 – $707
Kansas KS22$366+25%$128 – $801
Kentucky KY29$364+24%$144 – $601
Washington WA31$351+20%$286 – $384
Illinois IL65$347+19%$174 – $595
California CA91$338+16%$284 – $489
Oklahoma OK29$330+13%$189 – $449
Wisconsin WI60$272−7%$213 – $373
North Carolina NC53$267−9%$76 – $422
New York NY53$266−9%$202 – $641
Minnesota MN25$266−9%$174 – $298
West Virginia WV11$265−10%$210 – $474
Pennsylvania PA75$259−12%$176 – $1,083
Missouri MO36$256−12%$240 – $317
Arkansas AR14$254−13%$153 – $440
Arizona AZ22$247−15%$137 – $1,836
Florida FL75$244−17%$110 – $596
Michigan MI36$234−20%$101 – $461
South Carolina SC15$230−21%$151 – $337
Texas TX111$221−24%$96 – $833
Indiana IN51$212−27%$100 – $323
New Jersey NJ36$202−31%$186 – $914
Alabama AL25$200−32%$112 – $359
Ohio OH69$168−43%$123 – $421
Iowa IA22$165−44%$165 – $337
Mississippi MS18$144−51%$82 – $294
Tennessee TN51$141−52%$81 – $215
Louisiana LA26$88−70%$53 – $299
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $292.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,221$288$151 – $601
Children’s25$338$191 – $446
Critical access201$296$158 – $541
Ownership
For-profit209$364$152 – $906
Government196$272$115 – $506
Non-profit1,042$286$153 – $584
System affiliation
Part of a system1,252$284$152 – $606
Independent200$307$128 – $506

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$518
Median cash price$292
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

1,048 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $311 and the average of the middle 60% is $333; most fall between $146 and $623.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,048 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
$89$168$311$530$963

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $963).

Of the 1,148 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,048 gave a usable cash price; 55 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,452 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,562 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,452
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded47
Hospitals that filed this code1,562

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 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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Auto Lr Process/Storage.

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, “Collecting and storing your own blood before surgery (CPT 86890) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86890-collecting-and-storing-your-own-blood-before-surgery