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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Salvaging and returning your own blood during surgery

CPT 86891the billing code this page is about

Covers collecting, processing, and storing blood lost during or just after an operation so it can be given back to the same patient.

Hospitals typically charge $935 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 621 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,071. Most fall between $526 and $1,941 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
621
States
48
Filings dated
Aug 2024 – 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 621 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
$241$641$935$1,685$2,836

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($241 vs $2,836).

How the prices are spread

$208 – $279: 37 hospitals$208$279 – $374: 13 hospitals$374 – $502: 40 hospitals$374$502 – $674: 43 hospitals$674 – $905: 99 hospitals$674$905 – $1,215: 128 hospitals$1,215 – $1,631: 71 hospitals$1,215$1,631 – $2,189: 71 hospitals$2,189 – $2,938: 26 hospitals$2,189$2,938 – $3,944: 31 hospitals$2,938median $935price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (559 of 621 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$208$27937
$279$37413
$374$50240
$502$67443
$674$90599
$905$1,215128
$1,215$1,63171
$1,631$2,18971
$2,189$2,93826
$2,938$3,94431

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$823
Median cash price$935
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.14×

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 $935.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $1,686 across 11 hospitalsID$1,686Montana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $787 across 14 hospitalsIL$787Wisconsin: median $750 across 31 hospitalsWI$750Michigan: median $1,108 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,108New York: median $967 across 32 hospitalsNY$967Massachusetts: median $1,731 across 18 hospitalsMA$1,731Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $787 across 12 hospitalsIA$787Indiana: median $767 across 10 hospitalsIN$767Ohio: median $3,664 across 47 hospitalsOH$3,664Pennsylvania: median $958 across 39 hospitalsPA$958New Jersey: median $1,042 across 25 hospitalsNJ$1,042Connecticut: 9 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 $1,982 across 33 hospitalsCA$1,982Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $643 across 11 hospitalsNE$643Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $665 across 12 hospitalsVA$665Maryland: median $1,426 across 23 hospitalsMD$1,426Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $208 across 15 hospitalsTN$208North Carolina: median $392 across 10 hospitalsNC$392South Carolina: median $911 across 18 hospitalsSC$911Oklahoma: median $209 across 18 hospitalsOK$209Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $632 across 36 hospitalsGA$632Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $911 across 66 hospitalsTX$911Florida: median $875 across 20 hospitalsFL$875
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $935. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH47$3,664+292%$1,148 – $4,899
California CA33$1,982+112%$1,292 – $1,982
Massachusetts MA18$1,731+85%$527 – $3,163
Idaho ID11$1,686+80%$1,166 – $6,158
Maryland MD23$1,426+53%$1,077 – $1,636
Michigan MI24$1,108+18%$584 – $1,904
New Jersey NJ25$1,042+11%$904 – $1,321
New York NY32$967+3%$967 – $2,000
Pennsylvania PA39$958+2%$236 – $2,525
South Carolina SC18$911−3%$911 – $1,058
Texas TX66$911−3%$490 – $1,617
Florida FL20$875−6%$589 – $2,820
Iowa IA12$787−16%$787 – $787
Illinois IL14$787−16%$465 – $2,030
Indiana IN10$767−18%$756 – $793
Wisconsin WI31$750−20%$740 – $1,040
Virginia VA12$665−29%$208 – $805
Nebraska NE11$643−31%$643 – $933
Georgia GA36$632−32%$499 – $1,613
North Carolina NC10$392−58%$374 – $1,197
Oklahoma OK18$209−78%$209 – $891
Tennessee TN15$208−78%$208 – $750
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $935.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care558$923$526 – $1,923
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access44$1,148$740 – $2,525
Ownership
For-profit90$911$490 – $1,923
Government58$967$583 – $1,849
Non-profit467$934$540 – $1,982
System affiliation
Part of a system551$944$540 – $1,941
Independent70$847$457 – $1,947

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,590
Median cash price$935
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

471 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $944 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,157; most fall between $551 and $1,982.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 471 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
$302$643$944$1,904$3,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($302 vs $3,458).

Of the 520 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 471 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

621 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 690 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted621
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code690

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 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 AUTOLOGOUS BLOOD OP SALVAGE.

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, “Salvaging and returning your own blood during surgery (CPT 86891) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86891-salvaging-and-returning-your-own-blood-during-surgery