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Freezing of blood for storage, each unit

CPT 86930the billing code this page is about

Laboratory service of preparing and freezing one unit of blood for long-term storage; billed once for each unit frozen.

Hospitals typically charge $216 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 231 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $268. Most fall between $157 and $563 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
231
States
34
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 231 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
$128$167$216$512$829

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $829).

How the prices are spread

$101 – $125: 12 hospitals$101$125 – $154: 14 hospitals$154 – $190: 44 hospitals$154$190 – $235: 45 hospitals$235 – $290: 23 hospitals$235$290 – $358: 5 hospitals$358 – $441: 13 hospitals$358$441 – $544: 16 hospitals$544 – $672: 11 hospitals$544$672 – $829: 31 hospitals$672median $216price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (214 of 231 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$101$12512
$125$15414
$154$19044
$190$23545
$235$29023
$290$3585
$358$44113
$441$54416
$544$67211
$672$82931

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$216
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.24×

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 $216.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $128 across 10 hospitalsWA$128Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $203 across 22 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $157 across 12 hospitalsIA$157Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $190 across 13 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $829 across 32 hospitalsCA$829Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $154 across 10 hospitalsTN$154North Carolina: median $639 across 14 hospitalsNC$639South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $256 across 12 hospitalsOK$256Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $216. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$829+283%$415 – $829
North Carolina NC14$639+195%$467 – $686
Oklahoma OK12$256+18%$256 – $256
New York NY22$203−6%$203 – $436
New Jersey NJ13$190−12%$190 – $220
Iowa IA12$157−28%$157 – $157
Tennessee TN10$154−29%$104 – $213
Washington WA10$128−41%$117 – $275
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $216.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care216$216$157 – $579
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access13fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit36$236$151 – $492
Government26$203$146 – $288
Non-profit169$229$157 – $686
System affiliation
Part of a system204$218$157 – $639
Independent27$190$117 – $409

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$459
Median cash price$216
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

129 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $256 and the average of the middle 60% is $320; most fall between $155 and $775.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 129 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
$117$157$256$562$829

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $829).

Of the 137 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 129 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

231 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 240 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted231
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code240

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 5, 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 FROZEN BLOOD PREP.

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, “Freezing of blood for storage, each unit (CPT 86930) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86930-freezing-of-blood-for-storage-each-unit