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Computer check of blood compatibility, each unit

CPT 86923the billing code this page is about

Electronic comparison of the patient's blood type and antibody screen records against a donor unit to confirm compatibility, instead of a hands-on crossmatch; billed per unit checked.

Hospitals typically charge $160 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,277 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $163. Most fall between $76 and $295 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,277
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,277 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
$48$93$160$250$467

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($48 vs $467).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $36: 52 hospitals$26$36 – $50: 78 hospitals$50 – $69: 156 hospitals$50$69 – $95: 195 hospitals$95 – $131: 339 hospitals$95$131 – $181: 361 hospitals$181 – $249: 415 hospitals$181$249 – $344: 202 hospitals$344 – $474: 154 hospitals$344$474 – $654: 104 hospitals$474median $160price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,056 of 2,277 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$3652
$36$5078
$50$69156
$69$95195
$95$131339
$131$181361
$181$249415
$249$344202
$344$474154
$474$654104

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$160
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $160.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $92 across 16 hospitalsME$92Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $146 across 13 hospitalsNH$146Washington: median $124 across 61 hospitalsWA$124Idaho: median $206 across 10 hospitalsID$206Montana: median $247 across 10 hospitalsMT$247North Dakota: median $160 across 16 hospitalsND$160Minnesota: median $94 across 57 hospitalsMN$94Illinois: median $165 across 95 hospitalsIL$165Wisconsin: median $113 across 88 hospitalsWI$113Michigan: median $159 across 74 hospitalsMI$159New York: median $203 across 90 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: median $195 across 42 hospitalsMA$195Oregon: median $209 across 39 hospitalsOR$209Nevada: median $199 across 14 hospitalsNV$199Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $143 across 11 hospitalsSD$143Iowa: median $156 across 36 hospitalsIA$156Indiana: median $161 across 77 hospitalsIN$161Ohio: median $145 across 114 hospitalsOH$145Pennsylvania: median $203 across 100 hospitalsPA$203New Jersey: median $190 across 47 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: median $217 across 17 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $176 across 10 hospitalsRI$176California: median $347 across 120 hospitalsCA$347Utah: median $206 across 29 hospitalsUT$206Colorado: median $303 across 45 hospitalsCO$303Nebraska: median $154 across 33 hospitalsNE$154Missouri: median $145 across 57 hospitalsMO$145Kentucky: median $139 across 35 hospitalsKY$139West Virginia: median $88 across 22 hospitalsWV$88Virginia: median $206 across 64 hospitalsVA$206Maryland: median $16 across 35 hospitalsMD$16Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $251 across 27 hospitalsAZ$251New Mexico: median $81 across 18 hospitalsNM$81Kansas: median $118 across 30 hospitalsKS$118Arkansas: median $68 across 24 hospitalsAR$68Tennessee: median $68 across 56 hospitalsTN$68North Carolina: median $108 across 71 hospitalsNC$108South Carolina: median $116 across 45 hospitalsSC$116Oklahoma: median $139 across 40 hospitalsOK$139Louisiana: median $36 across 24 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $74 across 39 hospitalsMS$74Alabama: median $168 across 22 hospitalsAL$168Georgia: median $115 across 68 hospitalsGA$115Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $171 across 168 hospitalsTX$171Florida: median $244 across 140 hospitalsFL$244
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $160. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA120$347+117%$167 – $441
Colorado CO45$303+89%$130 – $637
Arizona AZ27$251+57%$123 – $368
Montana MT10$247+54%$106 – $247
Florida FL140$244+52%$103 – $615
Connecticut CT17$217+36%$65 – $284
Oregon OR39$209+30%$112 – $455
Virginia VA64$206+29%$157 – $263
Idaho ID10$206+29%$151 – $413
Utah UT29$206+29%$206 – $242
Pennsylvania PA100$203+27%$122 – $530
New York NY90$203+27%$25 – $398
Nevada NV14$199+24%$121 – $720
Massachusetts MA42$195+22%$119 – $422
New Jersey NJ47$190+19%$59 – $229
Rhode Island RI10$176+10%$168 – $257
Texas TX168$171+7%$100 – $260
Alabama AL22$168+5%$91 – $273
Illinois IL95$165+3%$88 – $287
Indiana IN77$161+1%$109 – $225
North Dakota ND16$1600%$118 – $261
Michigan MI74$159−1%$65 – $191
Iowa IA36$156−2%$112 – $173
Nebraska NE33$154−4%$129 – $260
New Hampshire NH13$146−8%$60 – $407
Ohio OH114$145−9%$113 – $315
Missouri MO57$145−9%$62 – $234
South Dakota SD11$143−11%$98 – $206
Kentucky KY35$139−13%$56 – $195
Oklahoma OK40$139−13%$58 – $191
Washington WA61$124−23%$90 – $259
Kansas KS30$118−26%$64 – $275
South Carolina SC45$116−27%$85 – $124
Georgia GA68$115−28%$76 – $234
Wisconsin WI88$113−30%$75 – $185
North Carolina NC71$108−32%$73 – $160
Minnesota MN57$94−42%$25 – $142
Maine ME16$92−43%$55 – $296
West Virginia WV22$88−45%$27 – $329
New Mexico NM18$81−50%$25 – $190
Mississippi MS39$74−54%$43 – $150
Arkansas AR24$68−57%$67 – $160
Tennessee TN56$68−57%$44 – $156
Louisiana LA24$36−77%$19 – $107
Maryland MD35$16−90%$13 – $19
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $160.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,842$163$77 – $315
Children’s49$145$87 – $315
Critical access378$151$67 – $247
Ownership
For-profit309$210$102 – $550
Government280$143$70 – $249
Non-profit1,680$156$76 – $266
System affiliation
Part of a system2,032$160$77 – $293
Independent245$167$68 – $304

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$271
Median cash price$160
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,647 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $161 and the average of the middle 60% is $167; most fall between $82 and $300.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,647 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
$51$98$161$257$455

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($51 vs $455).

Of the 1,812 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,647 gave a usable cash price; 98 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,277 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,467 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,277
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here115
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 — excluded72
Hospitals that filed this code2,467

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 Electronic 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, “Computer check of blood compatibility, each unit (CPT 86923) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86923-computer-check-of-blood-compatibility-each-unit