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Screening donor blood units against a patient's serum

CPT 86904the billing code this page is about

Laboratory testing of donor blood units to find ones lacking the antigen the patient has an antibody against; billed for each unit screened.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $71. Most fall between $34 and $124 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,324
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 1,324 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
$22$39$68$115$190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $190).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $22: 76 hospitals$17$22 – $29: 86 hospitals$29 – $39: 112 hospitals$29$39 – $51: 157 hospitals$51 – $68: 174 hospitals$51$68 – $90: 161 hospitals$90 – $119: 215 hospitals$90$119 – $158: 113 hospitals$158 – $209: 65 hospitals$158$209 – $277: 45 hospitals$209median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,204 of 1,324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2276
$22$2986
$29$39112
$39$51157
$51$68174
$68$90161
$90$119215
$119$158113
$158$20965
$209$27745

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$68
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $68.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $82 across 22 hospitalsWA$82Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $79 across 49 hospitalsMN$79Illinois: median $75 across 61 hospitalsIL$75Wisconsin: median $44 across 59 hospitalsWI$44Michigan: median $36 across 28 hospitalsMI$36New York: median $70 across 56 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: median $109 across 27 hospitalsMA$109Oregon: median $50 across 14 hospitalsOR$50Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $57 across 45 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $169 across 34 hospitalsOH$169Pennsylvania: median $65 across 54 hospitalsPA$65New Jersey: median $65 across 31 hospitalsNJ$65Connecticut: 5 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 $70 across 96 hospitalsCA$70Utah: median $98 across 29 hospitalsUT$98Colorado: median $69 across 36 hospitalsCO$69Nebraska: median $85 across 43 hospitalsNE$85Missouri: median $54 across 45 hospitalsMO$54Kentucky: median $45 across 24 hospitalsKY$45West Virginia: median $92 across 17 hospitalsWV$92Virginia: median $53 across 36 hospitalsVA$53Maryland: median $29 across 21 hospitalsMD$29Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $97 across 17 hospitalsAZ$97New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $78 across 45 hospitalsKS$78Arkansas: median $46 across 15 hospitalsAR$46Tennessee: median $25 across 41 hospitalsTN$25North Carolina: median $39 across 18 hospitalsNC$39South Carolina: median $106 across 17 hospitalsSC$106Oklahoma: median $34 across 28 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $44 across 11 hospitalsLA$44Mississippi: median $23 across 21 hospitalsMS$23Alabama: median $25 across 10 hospitalsAL$25Georgia: median $94 across 67 hospitalsGA$94Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $97 across 82 hospitalsTX$97Florida: median $100 across 56 hospitalsFL$100
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $68. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH34$169+149%$73 – $398
Massachusetts MA27$109+61%$82 – $127
South Carolina SC17$106+56%$92 – $195
Florida FL56$100+48%$34 – $215
Utah UT29$98+45%$98 – $116
Texas TX82$97+43%$33 – $135
Arizona AZ17$97+42%$52 – $480
Georgia GA67$94+39%$73 – $173
West Virginia WV17$92+36%$60 – $236
Nebraska NE43$85+26%$49 – $133
Washington WA22$82+20%$71 – $116
Minnesota MN49$79+16%$54 – $226
Kansas KS45$78+16%$45 – $165
Illinois IL61$75+10%$27 – $112
New York NY56$70+4%$27 – $99
California CA96$70+3%$52 – $146
Colorado CO36$69+2%$40 – $128
New Jersey NJ31$65−4%$18 – $70
Pennsylvania PA54$65−4%$19 – $118
Iowa IA45$57−16%$39 – $89
Missouri MO45$54−20%$32 – $94
Virginia VA36$53−21%$41 – $65
Oregon OR14$50−27%$50 – $158
Arkansas AR15$46−32%$27 – $68
Kentucky KY24$45−33%$23 – $78
Wisconsin WI59$44−35%$38 – $90
Louisiana LA11$44−36%$21 – $101
North Carolina NC18$39−43%$35 – $72
Michigan MI28$36−46%$16 – $58
Oklahoma OK28$34−50%$29 – $62
Maryland MD21$29−58%$25 – $35
Alabama AL10$25−63%$18 – $53
Tennessee TN41$25−63%$17 – $115
Mississippi MS21$23−66%$13 – $32
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $68.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care977$65$32 – $124
Children’s25$110$57 – $129
Critical access317$73$39 – $118
Ownership
For-profit169$92$44 – $222
Government193$76$36 – $114
Non-profit957$64$32 – $118
System affiliation
Part of a system1,127$68$34 – $124
Independent197$72$35 – $127

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$111
Median cash price$68
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

891 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $70 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $34 and $128.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 891 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
$23$38$70$116$182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $182).

Of the 1,008 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 891 gave a usable cash price; 65 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 52 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,324 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,478 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,324
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here92
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 — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,478

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 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 Hc Blood Typing, Patient Serum.

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, “Screening donor blood units against a patient's serum (CPT 86904) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86904-screening-donor-blood-units-against-a-patient-s-serum