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Thawing of frozen plasma, each unit

CPT 86927the billing code this page is about

Laboratory service of thawing one unit of fresh frozen plasma so it can be transfused; billed once for each unit thawed.

Hospitals typically charge $131 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,933 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $140. Most fall between $51 and $266 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,933
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 1,933 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
$34$63$131$232$429

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $429).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $33: 82 hospitals$24$33 – $46: 130 hospitals$46 – $64: 179 hospitals$46$64 – $88: 150 hospitals$88 – $121: 282 hospitals$88$121 – $167: 244 hospitals$167 – $230: 287 hospitals$167$230 – $318: 182 hospitals$318 – $438: 122 hospitals$318$438 – $605: 86 hospitals$438median $131price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,744 of 1,933 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$3382
$33$46130
$46$64179
$64$88150
$88$121282
$121$167244
$167$230287
$230$318182
$318$438122
$438$60586

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$131
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $131.

Alaska: median $202 across 11 hospitalsAK$202Maine: median $73 across 15 hospitalsME$73Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $132 across 51 hospitalsWA$132Idaho: median $181 across 11 hospitalsID$181Montana: median $93 across 12 hospitalsMT$93North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $49 across 30 hospitalsMN$49Illinois: median $144 across 97 hospitalsIL$144Wisconsin: median $51 across 71 hospitalsWI$51Michigan: median $141 across 42 hospitalsMI$141New York: median $203 across 74 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: median $235 across 31 hospitalsMA$235Oregon: median $140 across 33 hospitalsOR$140Nevada: median $91 across 11 hospitalsNV$91Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $88 across 49 hospitalsIA$88Indiana: median $187 across 60 hospitalsIN$187Ohio: median $160 across 93 hospitalsOH$160Pennsylvania: median $159 across 75 hospitalsPA$159New Jersey: median $190 across 40 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: median $113 across 10 hospitalsCT$113Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $248 across 116 hospitalsCA$248Utah: median $181 across 36 hospitalsUT$181Colorado: median $242 across 38 hospitalsCO$242Nebraska: median $91 across 38 hospitalsNE$91Missouri: median $96 across 50 hospitalsMO$96Kentucky: median $104 across 27 hospitalsKY$104West Virginia: median $122 across 14 hospitalsWV$122Virginia: median $82 across 33 hospitalsVA$82Maryland: median $10 across 18 hospitalsMD$10Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $167 across 25 hospitalsAZ$167New Mexico: median $73 across 17 hospitalsNM$73Kansas: median $96 across 39 hospitalsKS$96Arkansas: median $120 across 24 hospitalsAR$120Tennessee: median $98 across 47 hospitalsTN$98North Carolina: median $75 across 49 hospitalsNC$75South Carolina: median $102 across 36 hospitalsSC$102Oklahoma: median $129 across 46 hospitalsOK$129Louisiana: median $120 across 33 hospitalsLA$120Mississippi: median $50 across 36 hospitalsMS$50Alabama: median $113 across 27 hospitalsAL$113Georgia: median $150 across 66 hospitalsGA$150Hawaii: median $205 across 11 hospitalsHI$205Texas: median $114 across 152 hospitalsTX$114Florida: median $175 across 93 hospitalsFL$175
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $131. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA116$248+89%$99 – $476
Colorado CO38$242+84%$146 – $828
Massachusetts MA31$235+79%$101 – $530
Hawaii HI11$205+56%$205 – $318
New York NY74$203+54%$60 – $518
Alaska AK11$202+54%$78 – $348
New Jersey NJ40$190+45%$68 – $471
Indiana IN60$187+42%$83 – $336
Idaho ID11$181+38%$64 – $455
Utah UT36$181+38%$112 – $213
Florida FL93$175+33%$43 – $371
Arizona AZ25$167+27%$82 – $247
Ohio OH93$160+22%$79 – $343
Pennsylvania PA75$159+21%$88 – $223
Georgia GA66$150+14%$95 – $245
Illinois IL97$144+10%$55 – $281
Michigan MI42$141+7%$47 – $244
Oregon OR33$140+6%$88 – $416
Washington WA51$132+1%$89 – $270
Oklahoma OK46$129−2%$78 – $231
West Virginia WV14$122−7%$82 – $424
Arkansas AR24$120−8%$85 – $266
Louisiana LA33$120−9%$55 – $263
Texas TX152$114−13%$53 – $200
Connecticut CT10$113−14%$69 – $237
Alabama AL27$113−14%$96 – $198
Kentucky KY27$104−21%$47 – $235
South Carolina SC36$102−22%$45 – $174
Tennessee TN47$98−25%$47 – $240
Missouri MO50$96−27%$55 – $169
Kansas KS39$96−27%$33 – $199
Montana MT12$93−29%$43 – $168
Nevada NV11$91−31%$55 – $355
Nebraska NE38$91−31%$31 – $183
Iowa IA49$88−33%$34 – $165
Virginia VA33$82−38%$47 – $130
North Carolina NC49$75−43%$34 – $163
Maine ME15$73−44%$30 – $300
New Mexico NM17$73−45%$41 – $192
Wisconsin WI71$51−61%$47 – $134
Mississippi MS36$50−62%$35 – $111
Minnesota MN30$49−62%$30 – $136
Maryland MD18$10−93%$8 – $13
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $131.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,440$154$60 – $289
Children’s42$94$38 – $183
Critical access446$93$43 – $218
Ownership
For-profit282$161$70 – $319
Government343$113$44 – $225
Non-profit1,303$130$51 – $268
System affiliation
Part of a system1,558$131$52 – $260
Independent375$129$46 – $289

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$225
Median cash price$131
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

1,282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $140 and the average of the middle 60% is $145; most fall between $53 and $282.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,282 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
$36$68$140$233$452

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $452).

Of the 1,430 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,282 gave a usable cash price; 83 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

1,933 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,135 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,933
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here123
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded79
Hospitals that filed this code2,135

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 PLASMA FRESH FROZEN.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Thawing of frozen plasma, each unit (CPT 86927) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86927-thawing-of-frozen-plasma-each-unit