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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Blood crossmatch, immediate spin method, per unit

CPT 86920the billing code this page is about

A quick compatibility test between patient blood and a unit of donor blood before transfusion; billed once for each unit crossmatched.

Hospitals typically charge $155 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,140 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $159. Most fall between $77 and $276 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,140
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 3,140 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
$49$91$155$243$446

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($49 vs $446).

How the prices are spread

$30 – $41: 81 hospitals$30$41 – $55: 135 hospitals$55 – $75: 238 hospitals$55$75 – $102: 312 hospitals$102 – $138: 465 hospitals$102$138 – $187: 554 hospitals$187 – $253: 479 hospitals$187$253 – $343: 252 hospitals$343 – $464: 179 hospitals$343$464 – $629: 132 hospitals$464median $155price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,827 of 3,140 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$30$4181
$41$55135
$55$75238
$75$102312
$102$138465
$138$187554
$187$253479
$253$343252
$343$464179
$464$629132

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$155
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.89×

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 $155.

Alaska: median $246 across 18 hospitalsAK$246Maine: median $116 across 25 hospitalsME$116Vermont: median $142 across 13 hospitalsVT$142New Hampshire: median $157 across 25 hospitalsNH$157Washington: median $161 across 68 hospitalsWA$161Idaho: median $189 across 21 hospitalsID$189Montana: median $165 across 28 hospitalsMT$165North Dakota: median $237 across 28 hospitalsND$237Minnesota: median $115 across 99 hospitalsMN$115Illinois: median $144 across 120 hospitalsIL$144Wisconsin: median $138 across 106 hospitalsWI$138Michigan: median $145 across 92 hospitalsMI$145New York: median $203 across 113 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: median $201 across 51 hospitalsMA$201Oregon: median $178 across 50 hospitalsOR$178Nevada: median $197 across 20 hospitalsNV$197Wyoming: median $145 across 14 hospitalsWY$145South Dakota: median $164 across 34 hospitalsSD$164Iowa: median $129 across 80 hospitalsIA$129Indiana: median $158 across 89 hospitalsIN$158Ohio: median $131 across 133 hospitalsOH$131Pennsylvania: median $201 across 120 hospitalsPA$201New Jersey: median $190 across 55 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: median $205 across 22 hospitalsCT$205Rhode Island: median $176 across 10 hospitalsRI$176California: median $359 across 156 hospitalsCA$359Utah: median $213 across 35 hospitalsUT$213Colorado: median $190 across 64 hospitalsCO$190Nebraska: median $175 across 75 hospitalsNE$175Missouri: median $111 across 70 hospitalsMO$111Kentucky: median $119 across 48 hospitalsKY$119West Virginia: median $140 across 35 hospitalsWV$140Virginia: median $213 across 72 hospitalsVA$213Maryland: median $21 across 38 hospitalsMD$21Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $181 across 38 hospitalsAZ$181New Mexico: median $154 across 27 hospitalsNM$154Kansas: median $96 across 75 hospitalsKS$96Arkansas: median $91 across 39 hospitalsAR$91Tennessee: median $74 across 80 hospitalsTN$74North Carolina: median $119 across 85 hospitalsNC$119South Carolina: median $148 across 53 hospitalsSC$148Oklahoma: median $119 across 70 hospitalsOK$119Louisiana: median $107 across 52 hospitalsLA$107Mississippi: median $113 across 53 hospitalsMS$113Alabama: median $156 across 38 hospitalsAL$156Georgia: median $132 across 96 hospitalsGA$132Hawaii: median $113 across 18 hospitalsHI$113Texas: median $170 across 228 hospitalsTX$170Florida: median $244 across 155 hospitalsFL$244
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $155. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA156$359+132%$168 – $495
Alaska AK18$246+60%$165 – $300
Florida FL155$244+58%$87 – $637
North Dakota ND28$237+53%$155 – $263
Utah UT35$213+38%$181 – $228
Virginia VA72$213+38%$94 – $263
Connecticut CT22$205+32%$92 – $246
New York NY113$203+31%$29 – $372
Pennsylvania PA120$201+30%$125 – $446
Massachusetts MA51$201+30%$111 – $322
Nevada NV20$197+27%$125 – $720
Colorado CO64$190+23%$120 – $501
New Jersey NJ55$190+23%$62 – $235
Idaho ID21$189+22%$113 – $760
Arizona AZ38$181+17%$66 – $475
Oregon OR50$178+15%$110 – $254
Rhode Island RI10$176+14%$125 – $257
Nebraska NE75$175+13%$104 – $253
Texas TX228$170+10%$93 – $300
Montana MT28$165+7%$90 – $229
South Dakota SD34$164+6%$139 – $233
Washington WA68$161+4%$94 – $232
Indiana IN89$158+2%$58 – $218
New Hampshire NH25$157+2%$86 – $242
Alabama AL38$156+1%$83 – $274
New Mexico NM27$154−1%$112 – $281
South Carolina SC53$148−5%$116 – $176
Wyoming WY14$145−6%$101 – $279
Michigan MI92$145−6%$63 – $203
Illinois IL120$144−7%$67 – $249
Vermont VT13$142−8%$94 – $294
West Virginia WV35$140−9%$69 – $336
Wisconsin WI106$138−11%$92 – $212
Georgia GA96$132−14%$67 – $221
Ohio OH133$131−15%$88 – $289
Iowa IA80$129−17%$67 – $165
Kentucky KY48$119−23%$49 – $198
Oklahoma OK70$119−23%$81 – $212
North Carolina NC85$119−23%$68 – $171
Maine ME25$116−25%$55 – $157
Minnesota MN99$115−26%$75 – $198
Hawaii HI18$113−27%$61 – $249
Mississippi MS53$113−27%$61 – $154
Missouri MO70$111−28%$67 – $161
Louisiana LA52$107−31%$58 – $233
Kansas KS75$96−38%$62 – $204
Arkansas AR39$91−41%$53 – $198
Tennessee TN80$74−52%$54 – $201
Maryland MD38$21−86%$17 – $26
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 $155.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,246$158$77 – $300
Children’s59$142$89 – $378
Critical access826$144$75 – $235
Ownership
For-profit453$196$93 – $542
Government535$148$75 – $243
Non-profit2,143$149$75 – $254
System affiliation
Part of a system2,599$156$77 – $279
Independent541$149$74 – $265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$255
Median cash price$155
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

2,133 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $156 and the average of the middle 60% is $161; most fall between $83 and $275.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,133 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
$53$94$156$242$419

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($53 vs $419).

Of the 2,365 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,133 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,140 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,424 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,140
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here160
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code3,424

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 Crossmatch Immediate Spin.

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 crossmatch, immediate spin method, per unit (CPT 86920) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86920-blood-crossmatch-immediate-spin-method-per-unit