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Blood antigen typing using a donor serum reagent

CPT 86902the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that types red blood cells for a specific antigen using serum from a donor as the testing reagent; billed for each antigen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $126 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,901 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $146. Most fall between $49 and $334 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,901
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,901 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
$31$57$126$274$498

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $498).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $27: 100 hospitals$19$27 – $40: 173 hospitals$40 – $57: 319 hospitals$40$57 – $82: 293 hospitals$82 – $119: 362 hospitals$82$119 – $171: 344 hospitals$171 – $247: 350 hospitals$171$247 – $356: 280 hospitals$356 – $513: 255 hospitals$356$513 – $739: 139 hospitals$513median $126price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,615 of 2,901 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$27100
$27$40173
$40$57319
$57$82293
$82$119362
$119$171344
$171$247350
$247$356280
$356$513255
$513$739139

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$366
Median cash price$126
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.34×

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 $126.

Alaska: median $139 across 10 hospitalsAK$139Maine: median $91 across 26 hospitalsME$91Vermont: median $163 across 10 hospitalsVT$163New Hampshire: median $57 across 23 hospitalsNH$57Washington: median $155 across 64 hospitalsWA$155Idaho: median $100 across 18 hospitalsID$100Montana: median $90 across 22 hospitalsMT$90North Dakota: median $76 across 25 hospitalsND$76Minnesota: median $71 across 96 hospitalsMN$71Illinois: median $158 across 117 hospitalsIL$158Wisconsin: median $92 across 100 hospitalsWI$92Michigan: median $73 across 73 hospitalsMI$73New York: median $172 across 107 hospitalsNY$172Massachusetts: median $261 across 49 hospitalsMA$261Oregon: median $120 across 42 hospitalsOR$120Nevada: median $213 across 16 hospitalsNV$213Wyoming: median $195 across 11 hospitalsWY$195South Dakota: median $206 across 23 hospitalsSD$206Iowa: median $60 across 70 hospitalsIA$60Indiana: median $167 across 90 hospitalsIN$167Ohio: median $163 across 136 hospitalsOH$163Pennsylvania: median $182 across 110 hospitalsPA$182New Jersey: median $286 across 54 hospitalsNJ$286Connecticut: median $95 across 21 hospitalsCT$95Rhode Island: median $219 across 10 hospitalsRI$219California: median $102 across 149 hospitalsCA$102Utah: median $427 across 32 hospitalsUT$427Colorado: median $163 across 58 hospitalsCO$163Nebraska: median $176 across 63 hospitalsNE$176Missouri: median $157 across 65 hospitalsMO$157Kentucky: median $101 across 49 hospitalsKY$101West Virginia: median $113 across 32 hospitalsWV$113Virginia: median $118 across 71 hospitalsVA$118Maryland: median $41 across 39 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $275 across 38 hospitalsAZ$275New Mexico: median $109 across 25 hospitalsNM$109Kansas: median $105 across 68 hospitalsKS$105Arkansas: median $116 across 35 hospitalsAR$116Tennessee: median $88 across 69 hospitalsTN$88North Carolina: median $95 across 76 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $112 across 51 hospitalsSC$112Oklahoma: median $145 across 58 hospitalsOK$145Louisiana: median $68 across 47 hospitalsLA$68Mississippi: median $76 across 49 hospitalsMS$76Alabama: median $160 across 39 hospitalsAL$160Georgia: median $115 across 97 hospitalsGA$115Hawaii: median $240 across 18 hospitalsHI$240Texas: median $214 across 199 hospitalsTX$214Florida: median $108 across 145 hospitalsFL$108
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $126. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT32$427+239%$379 – $446
New Jersey NJ54$286+128%$7 – $464
Arizona AZ38$275+118%$67 – $498
Massachusetts MA49$261+108%$114 – $672
Hawaii HI18$240+91%$35 – $691
Rhode Island RI10$219+74%$91 – $502
Texas TX199$214+71%$81 – $412
Nevada NV16$213+70%$131 – $453
South Dakota SD23$206+64%$105 – $374
Wyoming WY11$195+55%$121 – $469
Pennsylvania PA110$182+45%$65 – $449
Nebraska NE63$176+40%$47 – $300
New York NY107$172+37%$17 – $596
Indiana IN90$167+33%$58 – $348
Colorado CO58$163+30%$99 – $351
Vermont VT10$163+30%$69 – $472
Ohio OH136$163+29%$49 – $271
Alabama AL39$160+27%$46 – $533
Illinois IL117$158+26%$78 – $330
Missouri MO65$157+25%$72 – $236
Washington WA64$155+24%$56 – $324
Oklahoma OK58$145+16%$64 – $234
Alaska AK10$139+10%$106 – $264
Oregon OR42$120−5%$52 – $264
Virginia VA71$118−6%$57 – $446
Arkansas AR35$116−8%$44 – $184
Georgia GA97$115−9%$58 – $218
West Virginia WV32$113−11%$39 – $405
South Carolina SC51$112−11%$55 – $234
New Mexico NM25$109−13%$64 – $300
Florida FL145$108−14%$44 – $304
Kansas KS68$105−16%$54 – $189
California CA149$102−19%$49 – $739
Kentucky KY49$101−20%$57 – $345
Idaho ID18$100−20%$49 – $379
Connecticut CT21$95−24%$28 – $343
North Carolina NC76$95−24%$57 – $234
Wisconsin WI100$92−27%$42 – $149
Maine ME26$91−28%$70 – $145
Montana MT22$90−28%$46 – $170
Tennessee TN69$88−30%$33 – $275
North Dakota ND25$76−40%$40 – $154
Mississippi MS49$76−40%$33 – $155
Michigan MI73$73−42%$42 – $327
Minnesota MN96$71−44%$39 – $128
Louisiana LA47$68−46%$22 – $236
Iowa IA70$60−52%$41 – $230
New Hampshire NH23$57−54%$32 – $376
Maryland MD39$41−68%$31 – $49
Delaware DE6not 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 $126.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,127$141$49 – $366
Children’s55$139$51 – $271
Critical access709$106$46 – $245
Ownership
For-profit419$185$61 – $458
Government480$113$51 – $289
Non-profit1,992$124$46 – $323
System affiliation
Part of a system2,422$127$49 – $338
Independent479$121$49 – $318

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$204
Median cash price$126
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

2,003 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $125 and the average of the middle 60% is $145; most fall between $50 and $323.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,003 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
$32$57$125$269$518

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $518).

Of the 2,221 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,003 gave a usable cash price; 119 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 99 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,901 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (73%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,182 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,901
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here178
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 — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code3,182

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 Antigen Typing Ea Add Unit.

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, “Blood antigen typing using a donor serum reagent (CPT 86902) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86902-blood-antigen-typing-using-a-donor-serum-reagent