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Thawing of frozen blood, each unit

CPT 86931the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $209 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 426 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $241. Most fall between $101 and $570 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
426
States
40
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 426 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
$76$117$209$415$829

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $829).

How the prices are spread

$44 – $60: 12 hospitals$44$60 – $81: 17 hospitals$81 – $109: 50 hospitals$81$109 – $148: 45 hospitals$148 – $200: 48 hospitals$148$200 – $270: 71 hospitals$270 – $365: 35 hospitals$270$365 – $494: 39 hospitals$494 – $668: 23 hospitals$494$668 – $904: 47 hospitals$668median $209price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (387 of 426 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$44$6012
$60$8117
$81$10950
$109$14845
$148$20048
$200$27071
$270$36535
$365$49439
$494$66823
$668$90447

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$209
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.20×

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 $209.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $625 across 11 hospitalsMN$625Illinois: median $176 across 12 hospitalsIL$176Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $203 across 31 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals 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 $126 across 12 hospitalsIA$126Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $653 across 13 hospitalsOH$653Pennsylvania: median $351 across 23 hospitalsPA$351New Jersey: median $190 across 23 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $481 across 46 hospitalsCA$481Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $798 across 11 hospitalsCO$798Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $94 across 17 hospitalsVA$94Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $94 across 13 hospitalsTN$94North Carolina: median $157 across 24 hospitalsNC$157South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $133 across 13 hospitalsOK$133Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $254 across 23 hospitalsGA$254Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $411 across 33 hospitalsTX$411Florida: median $512 across 25 hospitalsFL$512
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $209. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO11$798+282%$246 – $798
Ohio OH13$653+213%$256 – $751
Minnesota MN11$625+199%$525 – $643
Florida FL25$512+145%$101 – $614
California CA46$481+130%$216 – $829
Texas TX33$411+96%$117 – $411
Pennsylvania PA23$351+68%$167 – $1,187
Georgia GA23$254+21%$87 – $904
New York NY31$203−3%$202 – $436
New Jersey NJ23$190−9%$99 – $202
Illinois IL12$176−16%$126 – $282
North Carolina NC24$157−25%$86 – $208
Oklahoma OK13$133−36%$133 – $133
Iowa IA12$126−40%$126 – $126
Tennessee TN13$94−55%$92 – $94
Virginia VA17$94−55%$44 – $210
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $209.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care371$220$117 – $608
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access50$90$50 – $192
Ownership
For-profit62$261$119 – $538
Government67$181$83 – $262
Non-profit297$211$105 – $643
System affiliation
Part of a system368$210$104 – $608
Independent58$176$67 – $365

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$398
Median cash price$209
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

290 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $256 and the average of the middle 60% is $289; most fall between $102 and $672.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 290 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
$85$120$256$525$829

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $829).

Of the 327 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 290 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

426 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 467 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted426
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code467

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 THAW.

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 blood, each unit (CPT 86931) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86931-thawing-of-frozen-blood-each-unit