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Irradiation of a blood product, each unit

CPT 86945the billing code this page is about

Treatment of one unit of donor blood or a blood component with radiation before transfusion to inactivate donor white cells; billed once for each unit irradiated.

Hospitals typically charge $98 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,841 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $104. Most fall between $50 and $196 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,841
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,841 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
$37$57$98$165$287

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $287).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $36: 82 hospitals$27$36 – $48: 169 hospitals$48 – $63: 176 hospitals$48$63 – $83: 252 hospitals$83 – $109: 234 hospitals$83$109 – $144: 275 hospitals$144 – $190: 182 hospitals$144$190 – $250: 145 hospitals$250 – $329: 96 hospitals$250$329 – $434: 47 hospitals$329median $98price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,658 of 1,841 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$3682
$36$48169
$48$63176
$63$83252
$83$109234
$109$144275
$144$190182
$190$250145
$250$32996
$329$43447

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$98
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $98.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $53 across 10 hospitalsME$53Vermont: 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 $96 across 43 hospitalsWA$96Idaho: median $140 across 10 hospitalsID$140Montana: median $201 across 13 hospitalsMT$201North Dakota: median $118 across 14 hospitalsND$118Minnesota: median $58 across 29 hospitalsMN$58Illinois: median $84 across 76 hospitalsIL$84Wisconsin: median $100 across 69 hospitalsWI$100Michigan: median $84 across 53 hospitalsMI$84New York: median $60 across 56 hospitalsNY$60Massachusetts: median $82 across 38 hospitalsMA$82Oregon: median $114 across 21 hospitalsOR$114Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $115 across 52 hospitalsIA$115Indiana: median $124 across 68 hospitalsIN$124Ohio: median $139 across 62 hospitalsOH$139Pennsylvania: median $86 across 79 hospitalsPA$86New Jersey: median $43 across 36 hospitalsNJ$43Connecticut: median $92 across 15 hospitalsCT$92Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $71 across 94 hospitalsCA$71Utah: median $221 across 32 hospitalsUT$221Colorado: median $168 across 43 hospitalsCO$168Nebraska: median $88 across 25 hospitalsNE$88Missouri: median $81 across 50 hospitalsMO$81Kentucky: median $95 across 32 hospitalsKY$95West Virginia: median $146 across 16 hospitalsWV$146Virginia: median $122 across 53 hospitalsVA$122Maryland: median $240 across 27 hospitalsMD$240Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $93 across 27 hospitalsKS$93Arkansas: median $104 across 20 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $120 across 47 hospitalsTN$120North Carolina: median $129 across 70 hospitalsNC$129South Carolina: median $124 across 23 hospitalsSC$124Oklahoma: median $74 across 47 hospitalsOK$74Louisiana: median $56 across 33 hospitalsLA$56Mississippi: median $62 across 17 hospitalsMS$62Alabama: median $118 across 23 hospitalsAL$118Georgia: median $132 across 52 hospitalsGA$132Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $127 across 171 hospitalsTX$127Florida: median $81 across 122 hospitalsFL$81
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $98. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD27$240+144%$159 – $394
Utah UT32$221+125%$182 – $260
Montana MT13$201+104%$86 – $295
Colorado CO43$168+71%$86 – $665
West Virginia WV16$146+48%$76 – $336
Idaho ID10$140+42%$50 – $457
Ohio OH62$139+41%$65 – $206
Georgia GA52$132+34%$81 – $241
North Carolina NC70$129+31%$65 – $160
Texas TX171$127+30%$64 – $266
Indiana IN68$124+26%$48 – $187
South Carolina SC23$124+26%$69 – $237
Virginia VA53$122+24%$65 – $497
Tennessee TN47$120+22%$19 – $238
Alabama AL23$118+20%$64 – $307
North Dakota ND14$118+20%$78 – $161
Iowa IA52$115+17%$62 – $181
Oregon OR21$114+16%$49 – $120
Arkansas AR20$104+6%$63 – $123
Wisconsin WI69$100+1%$63 – $117
Washington WA43$96−2%$50 – $115
Kentucky KY32$95−3%$45 – $178
Kansas KS27$93−5%$45 – $152
Connecticut CT15$92−7%$54 – $144
Nebraska NE25$88−11%$53 – $137
Pennsylvania PA79$86−12%$44 – $268
Illinois IL76$84−15%$28 – $157
Michigan MI53$84−15%$48 – $122
Massachusetts MA38$82−17%$52 – $119
Florida FL122$81−17%$53 – $278
Missouri MO50$81−18%$52 – $122
Oklahoma OK47$74−25%$53 – $90
California CA94$71−28%$45 – $83
Mississippi MS17$62−37%$26 – $123
New York NY56$60−39%$44 – $174
Minnesota MN29$58−41%$30 – $112
Louisiana LA33$56−43%$24 – $93
Maine ME10$53−46%$27 – $120
New Jersey NJ36$43−56%$41 – $134
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not 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 $98.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,474$97$47 – $206
Children’s49$122$68 – $272
Critical access312$103$65 – $157
Ownership
For-profit296$145$58 – $365
Government258$89$48 – $142
Non-profit1,281$92$48 – $176
System affiliation
Part of a system1,574$101$50 – $202
Independent267$88$49 – $168

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$162
Median cash price$98
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

1,241 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $102 and the average of the middle 60% is $104; most fall between $53 and $178.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,241 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
$39$61$102$161$260

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $260).

Of the 1,382 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,241 gave a usable cash price; 69 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,841 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,009 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,841
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
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 — excluded83
Hospitals that filed this code2,009

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 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 BLOOD PRODUCT/IRRADIATION.

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, “Irradiation of a blood product, each unit (CPT 86945) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86945-irradiation-of-a-blood-product-each-unit