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Freezing and later thawing of blood, each unit

CPT 86932the billing code this page is about

Laboratory service covering both the freezing of a unit of blood for storage and its later thawing for use; billed once for each unit handled.

Hospitals typically charge $144 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 240 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $155. Most fall between $47 and $264 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
240
States
33
Filings dated
Feb 2025 – 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 240 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
$43$53$144$250$328

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($43 vs $328).

How the prices are spread

$37 – $47: 39 hospitals$37$47 – $60: 17 hospitals$60 – $77: 4 hospitals$60$77 – $99: 11 hospitals$99 – $127: 25 hospitals$99$127 – $162: 23 hospitals$162 – $208: 20 hospitals$162$208 – $266: 51 hospitals$266 – $341: 16 hospitals$266$341 – $437: 11 hospitals$341median $144price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (217 of 240 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$37$4739
$47$6017
$60$774
$77$9911
$99$12725
$127$16223
$162$20820
$208$26651
$266$34116
$341$43711

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$144
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.8×

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 $144.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $46 across 22 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 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 $144 across 11 hospitalsIA$144Indiana: median $336 across 19 hospitalsIN$336Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $43 across 12 hospitalsNJ$43Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $212 across 34 hospitalsCA$212Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $282 across 12 hospitalsCO$282Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $264 across 19 hospitalsOK$264Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $179 across 11 hospitalsGA$179Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $250 across 16 hospitalsFL$250
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $144. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN19$336+133%$93 – $491
Colorado CO12$282+96%$137 – $294
Oklahoma OK19$264+83%$108 – $264
Florida FL16$250+74%$102 – $250
California CA34$212+47%$185 – $212
Georgia GA11$179+24%$179 – $179
Iowa IA11$1440%$144 – $144
New York NY22$46−68%$44 – $83
New Jersey NJ12$43−70%$43 – $46
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $144.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care218$144$46 – $264
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit41$108$50 – $179
Government26$76$46 – $179
Non-profit171$185$47 – $264
System affiliation
Part of a system212$152$50 – $264
Independent28$54$39 – $110

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$377
Median cash price$144
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

159 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $194 and the average of the middle 60% is $192; most fall between $102 and $276.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 159 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
$60$119$194$264$397

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $397).

Of the 170 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 159 gave a usable cash price; 8 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

240 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 257 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted240
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 code257

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 23, 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 FREEZE/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, “Freezing and later thawing of blood, each unit (CPT 86932) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86932-freezing-and-later-thawing-of-blood-each-unit