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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Volume reduction of a blood product, each unit

CPT 86960the billing code this page is about

Laboratory processing that removes excess fluid from one unit of blood or a blood component before transfusion; billed once for each unit processed.

Hospitals typically charge $180 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 486 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $167. Most fall between $54 and $303 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
486
States
42
Filings dated
Jun 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 486 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$76$180$255$467

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $467).

How the prices are spread

$28 – $39: 31 hospitals$28$39 – $54: 42 hospitals$54 – $74: 19 hospitals$54$74 – $103: 35 hospitals$103 – $141: 67 hospitals$103$141 – $195: 55 hospitals$195 – $269: 103 hospitals$195$269 – $371: 50 hospitals$371 – $512: 27 hospitals$371$512 – $706: 9 hospitals$512median $180price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (438 of 486 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$28$3931
$39$5442
$54$7419
$74$10335
$103$14167
$141$19555
$195$269103
$269$37150
$371$51227
$512$7069

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$180
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

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 $180.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $184 across 12 hospitalsWA$184Idaho: 4 hospitals 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: median $110 across 10 hospitalsMN$110Illinois: median $193 across 26 hospitalsIL$193Wisconsin: median $128 across 22 hospitalsWI$128Michigan: median $36 across 18 hospitalsMI$36New York: median $203 across 25 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 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 $39 across 14 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $131 across 22 hospitalsOH$131Pennsylvania: median $201 across 17 hospitalsPA$201New Jersey: median $190 across 13 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $358 across 28 hospitalsCA$358Utah: median $180 across 22 hospitalsUT$180Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $467 across 14 hospitalsKY$467West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $106 across 11 hospitalsTN$106North Carolina: median $1,045 across 15 hospitalsNC$1,045South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $12 across 12 hospitalsOK$12Louisiana: median $76 across 15 hospitalsLA$76Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $130 across 74 hospitalsTX$130Florida: median $63 across 25 hospitalsFL$63
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $180. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC15$1,045+479%$101 – $1,045
Kentucky KY14$467+159%$137 – $688
California CA28$358+99%$110 – $358
New York NY25$203+12%$202 – $482
Pennsylvania PA17$201+12%$201 – $369
Illinois IL26$193+7%$75 – $303
New Jersey NJ13$190+5%$190 – $220
Washington WA12$184+2%$170 – $267
Utah UT22$1800%$180 – $212
Ohio OH22$131−27%$131 – $213
Texas TX74$130−28%$48 – $208
Wisconsin WI22$128−29%$107 – $167
Minnesota MN10$110−39%$90 – $110
Tennessee TN11$106−41%$47 – $156
Louisiana LA15$76−58%$48 – $154
Florida FL25$63−65%$32 – $207
Iowa IA14$39−78%$39 – $39
Michigan MI18$36−80%$36 – $234
Oklahoma OK12$12−93%$12 – $12
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $180.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care423$180$54 – $303
Children’s32$191$107 – $375
Critical access30$128$39 – $199
Ownership
For-profit48$130$55 – $267
Government44$182$54 – $312
Non-profit393$180$51 – $303
System affiliation
Part of a system435$180$51 – $303
Independent51$193$62 – $319

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$241
Median cash price$180
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

385 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $144 and the average of the middle 60% is $156; most fall between $48 and $302.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 385 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
$33$69$144$248$362

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $362).

Of the 406 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 385 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

486 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 508 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted486
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code508

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 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 VOL REDUCTION OF BLOOD/PROD.

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, “Volume reduction of a blood product, each unit (CPT 86960) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86960-volume-reduction-of-a-blood-product-each-unit