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Blood crossmatch using antiglobulin method, each unit

CPT 86922the billing code this page is about

Laboratory compatibility test between patient and donor blood performed with the antiglobulin (Coombs) technique; billed once for each unit of blood tested.

Hospitals typically charge $155 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,186 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $163. Most fall between $79 and $287 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,186
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 3,186 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
$54$94$155$250$433

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $433).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $46: 96 hospitals$35$46 – $62: 162 hospitals$62 – $82: 250 hospitals$62$82 – $109: 300 hospitals$109 – $144: 497 hospitals$109$144 – $191: 498 hospitals$191 – $254: 449 hospitals$191$254 – $338: 278 hospitals$338 – $449: 209 hospitals$338$449 – $596: 129 hospitals$449median $155price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,868 of 3,186 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4696
$46$62162
$62$82250
$82$109300
$109$144497
$144$191498
$191$254449
$254$338278
$338$449209
$449$596129

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 $202 across 16 hospitalsAK$202Maine: median $101 across 25 hospitalsME$101Vermont: median $181 across 12 hospitalsVT$181New Hampshire: median $153 across 24 hospitalsNH$153Washington: median $168 across 72 hospitalsWA$168Idaho: median $225 across 24 hospitalsID$225Montana: median $168 across 32 hospitalsMT$168North Dakota: median $228 across 31 hospitalsND$228Minnesota: median $128 across 101 hospitalsMN$128Illinois: median $166 across 137 hospitalsIL$166Wisconsin: median $137 across 98 hospitalsWI$137Michigan: median $151 across 90 hospitalsMI$151New York: median $203 across 115 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: median $199 across 46 hospitalsMA$199Oregon: median $181 across 44 hospitalsOR$181Nevada: median $182 across 17 hospitalsNV$182Wyoming: median $195 across 16 hospitalsWY$195South Dakota: median $250 across 37 hospitalsSD$250Iowa: median $145 across 78 hospitalsIA$145Indiana: median $159 across 92 hospitalsIN$159Ohio: median $140 across 141 hospitalsOH$140Pennsylvania: median $203 across 121 hospitalsPA$203New Jersey: median $190 across 55 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: median $217 across 21 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $176 across 10 hospitalsRI$176California: median $359 across 146 hospitalsCA$359Utah: median $225 across 38 hospitalsUT$225Colorado: median $213 across 64 hospitalsCO$213Nebraska: median $249 across 81 hospitalsNE$249Missouri: median $125 across 71 hospitalsMO$125Kentucky: median $128 across 67 hospitalsKY$128West Virginia: median $139 across 41 hospitalsWV$139Virginia: median $149 across 70 hospitalsVA$149Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $181 across 36 hospitalsAZ$181New Mexico: median $167 across 20 hospitalsNM$167Kansas: median $96 across 85 hospitalsKS$96Arkansas: median $95 across 32 hospitalsAR$95Tennessee: median $79 across 78 hospitalsTN$79North Carolina: median $132 across 86 hospitalsNC$132South Carolina: median $155 across 50 hospitalsSC$155Oklahoma: median $111 across 68 hospitalsOK$111Louisiana: median $94 across 49 hospitalsLA$94Mississippi: median $94 across 55 hospitalsMS$94Alabama: median $180 across 40 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $149 across 105 hospitalsGA$149Hawaii: median $181 across 18 hospitalsHI$181Texas: median $171 across 228 hospitalsTX$171Florida: median $143 across 155 hospitalsFL$143
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 CA146$359+131%$137 – $476
South Dakota SD37$250+61%$149 – $323
Nebraska NE81$249+60%$160 – $347
North Dakota ND31$228+47%$165 – $266
Idaho ID24$225+45%$160 – $760
Utah UT38$225+45%$147 – $264
Connecticut CT21$217+40%$180 – $338
Colorado CO64$213+37%$117 – $501
Pennsylvania PA121$203+31%$110 – $474
New York NY115$203+31%$31 – $377
Alaska AK16$202+30%$121 – $282
Massachusetts MA46$199+28%$155 – $362
Wyoming WY16$195+25%$144 – $399
New Jersey NJ55$190+22%$54 – $229
Nevada NV17$182+17%$101 – $350
Oregon OR44$181+17%$155 – $269
Arizona AZ36$181+17%$104 – $435
Hawaii HI18$181+17%$61 – $244
Vermont VT12$181+17%$117 – $242
Alabama AL40$180+16%$106 – $273
Rhode Island RI10$176+13%$111 – $274
Texas TX228$171+10%$88 – $323
Montana MT32$168+8%$125 – $250
Washington WA72$168+8%$94 – $262
New Mexico NM20$167+7%$77 – $262
Illinois IL137$166+7%$88 – $254
Indiana IN92$159+2%$75 – $213
South Carolina SC50$1550%$119 – $207
New Hampshire NH24$153−1%$101 – $278
Michigan MI90$151−3%$59 – $191
Georgia GA105$149−4%$98 – $386
Virginia VA70$149−4%$81 – $263
Iowa IA78$145−7%$86 – $201
Florida FL155$143−8%$58 – $482
Ohio OH141$140−10%$97 – $247
West Virginia WV41$139−10%$88 – $287
Wisconsin WI98$137−12%$83 – $194
North Carolina NC86$132−15%$80 – $161
Kentucky KY67$128−18%$69 – $225
Minnesota MN101$128−18%$58 – $171
Missouri MO71$125−19%$90 – $196
Oklahoma OK68$111−29%$62 – $195
Maine ME25$101−35%$51 – $156
Kansas KS85$96−38%$61 – $141
Arkansas AR32$95−39%$68 – $198
Mississippi MS55$94−39%$52 – $151
Louisiana LA49$94−39%$35 – $194
Tennessee TN78$79−49%$60 – $205
Maryland MD41$27−83%$21 – $33
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 $155.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,234$156$76 – $309
Children’s62$153$103 – $316
Critical access880$153$85 – $254
Ownership
For-profit451$195$101 – $460
Government573$138$74 – $229
Non-profit2,152$155$77 – $269
System affiliation
Part of a system2,605$156$79 – $292
Independent581$147$80 – $267

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$264
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

2,156 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $155 and the average of the middle 60% is $167; most fall between $83 and $294.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,156 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
$56$98$155$261$430

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $430).

Of the 2,374 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,156 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,186 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,460 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,186
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
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 — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,460

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 Antiglobulin Crossmatch.

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 using antiglobulin method, each unit (CPT 86922) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86922-blood-crossmatch-using-antiglobulin-method-each-unit