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ABO blood type test

CPT 86900the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that determines whether blood is type A, B, AB, or O.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,386 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $64. Most fall between $21 and $140 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,386
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,386 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
$11$27$58$114$225

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $225).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $11: 156 hospitals$7$11 – $16: 190 hospitals$16 – $23: 225 hospitals$16$23 – $33: 270 hospitals$33 – $48: 440 hospitals$33$48 – $70: 474 hospitals$70 – $102: 518 hospitals$70$102 – $148: 328 hospitals$148 – $216: 268 hospitals$148$216 – $314: 185 hospitals$216median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,054 of 3,386 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$11156
$11$16190
$16$23225
$23$33270
$33$48440
$48$70474
$70$102518
$102$148328
$148$216268
$216$314185

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$58
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.43×

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 $58.

Alaska: median $67 across 19 hospitalsAK$67Maine: median $40 across 28 hospitalsME$40Vermont: median $80 across 14 hospitalsVT$80New Hampshire: median $39 across 25 hospitalsNH$39Washington: median $68 across 77 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: median $42 across 24 hospitalsID$42Montana: median $82 across 33 hospitalsMT$82North Dakota: median $38 across 35 hospitalsND$38Minnesota: median $39 across 105 hospitalsMN$39Illinois: median $81 across 136 hospitalsIL$81Wisconsin: median $40 across 108 hospitalsWI$40Michigan: median $30 across 96 hospitalsMI$30New York: median $72 across 122 hospitalsNY$72Massachusetts: median $119 across 54 hospitalsMA$119Oregon: median $56 across 51 hospitalsOR$56Nevada: median $67 across 22 hospitalsNV$67Wyoming: median $91 across 16 hospitalsWY$91South Dakota: median $90 across 42 hospitalsSD$90Iowa: median $53 across 90 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: median $49 across 94 hospitalsIN$49Ohio: median $59 across 141 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $88 across 114 hospitalsPA$88New Jersey: median $71 across 57 hospitalsNJ$71Connecticut: median $24 across 22 hospitalsCT$24Rhode Island: median $82 across 10 hospitalsRI$82California: median $80 across 163 hospitalsCA$80Utah: median $25 across 42 hospitalsUT$25Colorado: median $68 across 72 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $66 across 85 hospitalsNE$66Missouri: median $63 across 76 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $56 across 69 hospitalsKY$56West Virginia: median $29 across 44 hospitalsWV$29Virginia: median $86 across 72 hospitalsVA$86Maryland: median $11 across 41 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $90 across 42 hospitalsAZ$90New Mexico: median $82 across 31 hospitalsNM$82Kansas: median $60 across 93 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: median $52 across 39 hospitalsAR$52Tennessee: median $49 across 83 hospitalsTN$49North Carolina: median $52 across 86 hospitalsNC$52South Carolina: median $76 across 53 hospitalsSC$76Oklahoma: median $61 across 74 hospitalsOK$61Louisiana: median $25 across 52 hospitalsLA$25Mississippi: median $39 across 57 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $53 across 44 hospitalsAL$53Georgia: median $55 across 107 hospitalsGA$55Hawaii: median $86 across 20 hospitalsHI$86Texas: median $84 across 247 hospitalsTX$84Florida: median $47 across 152 hospitalsFL$47
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA54$119+105%$70 – $286
Wyoming WY16$91+57%$53 – $173
Arizona AZ42$90+56%$20 – $306
South Dakota SD42$90+55%$31 – $132
Pennsylvania PA114$88+52%$25 – $230
Hawaii HI20$86+49%$28 – $163
Virginia VA72$86+48%$28 – $160
Texas TX247$84+44%$19 – $212
New Mexico NM31$82+42%$47 – $126
Montana MT33$82+41%$39 – $114
Rhode Island RI10$82+41%$39 – $200
Illinois IL136$81+40%$40 – $141
California CA163$80+38%$16 – $262
Vermont VT14$80+38%$35 – $136
South Carolina SC53$76+31%$32 – $105
New York NY122$72+23%$7 – $274
New Jersey NJ57$71+23%$3 – $154
Washington WA77$68+17%$38 – $147
Colorado CO72$68+17%$39 – $139
Nevada NV22$67+16%$47 – $144
Alaska AK19$67+16%$11 – $112
Nebraska NE85$66+14%$28 – $92
Missouri MO76$63+9%$35 – $119
Oklahoma OK74$61+5%$32 – $103
Kansas KS93$60+3%$32 – $210
Ohio OH141$59+2%$14 – $101
Kentucky KY69$56−4%$32 – $88
Oregon OR51$56−4%$27 – $92
Georgia GA107$55−5%$39 – $115
Iowa IA90$53−8%$25 – $84
Alabama AL44$53−9%$18 – $167
North Carolina NC86$52−10%$38 – $77
Arkansas AR39$52−11%$16 – $88
Tennessee TN83$49−16%$11 – $124
Indiana IN94$49−16%$15 – $107
Florida FL152$47−19%$13 – $299
Idaho ID24$42−27%$13 – $112
Maine ME28$40−31%$23 – $88
Wisconsin WI108$40−31%$27 – $73
Mississippi MS57$39−32%$18 – $65
New Hampshire NH25$39−33%$22 – $86
Minnesota MN105$39−33%$28 – $78
North Dakota ND35$38−35%$21 – $80
Michigan MI96$30−48%$16 – $127
West Virginia WV44$29−51%$21 – $116
Utah UT42$25−57%$21 – $175
Louisiana LA52$25−58%$7 – $87
Connecticut CT22$24−59%$18 – $183
Maryland MD41$11−81%$8 – $13
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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,318$64$20 – $160
Children’s66$45$24 – $112
Critical access992$51$23 – $100
Ownership
For-profit480$87$29 – $283
Government649$58$25 – $120
Non-profit2,247$55$19 – $127
System affiliation
Part of a system2,731$58$20 – $141
Independent655$58$24 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$101
Median cash price$58
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

2,299 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $57 and the average of the middle 60% is $62; most fall between $21 and $133.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,299 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
$11$26$57$109$211

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $211).

Of the 2,547 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,299 gave a usable cash price; 135 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 113 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,386 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,717 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,386
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here202
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,717

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 Pre Kd: Abo and Rh (030).

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, “ABO blood type test (CPT 86900) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86900-abo-blood-type-test