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Pooling of platelets or other blood products

CPT 86965the billing code this page is about

Laboratory service of combining several donor units of platelets or another blood component into a single bag for transfusion; billed once per pooling.

Hospitals typically charge $137 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,644 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $146. Most fall between $67 and $271 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,644
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 1,644 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
$41$78$137$234$403

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $403).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $40: 75 hospitals$29$40 – $54: 81 hospitals$54 – $74: 148 hospitals$54$74 – $101: 175 hospitals$101 – $137: 262 hospitals$101$137 – $187: 241 hospitals$187 – $255: 219 hospitals$187$255 – $347: 126 hospitals$347 – $473: 105 hospitals$347$473 – $645: 48 hospitals$473median $137price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,480 of 1,644 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$4075
$40$5481
$54$74148
$74$101175
$101$137262
$137$187241
$187$255219
$255$347126
$347$473105
$473$64548

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$137
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.79×

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 $137.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $176 across 41 hospitalsWA$176Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $70 across 15 hospitalsMN$70Illinois: median $151 across 53 hospitalsIL$151Wisconsin: median $160 across 26 hospitalsWI$160Michigan: median $101 across 29 hospitalsMI$101New York: median $203 across 65 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: median $195 across 20 hospitalsMA$195Oregon: median $128 across 23 hospitalsOR$128Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $165 across 25 hospitalsIA$165Indiana: median $148 across 59 hospitalsIN$148Ohio: median $140 across 84 hospitalsOH$140Pennsylvania: median $202 across 102 hospitalsPA$202New Jersey: median $188 across 47 hospitalsNJ$188Connecticut: median $214 across 16 hospitalsCT$214Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $198 across 95 hospitalsCA$198Utah: median $210 across 27 hospitalsUT$210Colorado: median $237 across 38 hospitalsCO$237Nebraska: median $76 across 23 hospitalsNE$76Missouri: median $101 across 39 hospitalsMO$101Kentucky: median $129 across 34 hospitalsKY$129West Virginia: median $219 across 11 hospitalsWV$219Virginia: median $99 across 31 hospitalsVA$99Maryland: median $53 across 25 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $209 across 19 hospitalsAZ$209New Mexico: median $91 across 13 hospitalsNM$91Kansas: median $90 across 22 hospitalsKS$90Arkansas: median $129 across 21 hospitalsAR$129Tennessee: median $79 across 54 hospitalsTN$79North Carolina: median $102 across 53 hospitalsNC$102South Carolina: median $116 across 38 hospitalsSC$116Oklahoma: median $87 across 37 hospitalsOK$87Louisiana: median $60 across 36 hospitalsLA$60Mississippi: median $46 across 27 hospitalsMS$46Alabama: median $172 across 21 hospitalsAL$172Georgia: median $100 across 55 hospitalsGA$100Hawaii: median $143 across 10 hospitalsHI$143Texas: median $121 across 146 hospitalsTX$121Florida: median $87 across 98 hospitalsFL$87
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $137. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO38$237+73%$127 – $579
West Virginia WV11$219+60%$106 – $368
Connecticut CT16$214+56%$130 – $419
Utah UT27$210+53%$210 – $247
Arizona AZ19$209+53%$86 – $394
New York NY65$203+48%$48 – $377
Pennsylvania PA102$202+47%$109 – $530
California CA95$198+45%$113 – $403
Massachusetts MA20$195+43%$136 – $345
New Jersey NJ47$188+37%$104 – $340
Washington WA41$176+29%$88 – $278
Alabama AL21$172+26%$106 – $274
Iowa IA25$165+21%$65 – $165
Wisconsin WI26$160+17%$72 – $173
Illinois IL53$151+10%$63 – $250
Indiana IN59$148+8%$107 – $226
Hawaii HI10$143+4%$143 – $156
Ohio OH84$140+3%$114 – $269
Kentucky KY34$129−6%$59 – $274
Arkansas AR21$129−6%$84 – $177
Oregon OR23$128−7%$81 – $168
Texas TX146$121−12%$58 – $212
South Carolina SC38$116−15%$100 – $235
North Carolina NC53$102−26%$93 – $135
Missouri MO39$101−26%$64 – $155
Michigan MI29$101−26%$26 – $234
Georgia GA55$100−27%$67 – $298
Virginia VA31$99−28%$92 – $263
New Mexico NM13$91−34%$70 – $490
Kansas KS22$90−35%$42 – $283
Florida FL98$87−36%$34 – $323
Oklahoma OK37$87−36%$43 – $116
Tennessee TN54$79−42%$35 – $150
Nebraska NE23$76−44%$26 – $103
Minnesota MN15$70−49%$31 – $153
Louisiana LA36$60−56%$50 – $138
Maryland MD25$53−61%$36 – $62
Mississippi MS27$46−66%$33 – $104
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $137.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,390$139$67 – $274
Children’s39$143$67 – $334
Critical access208$107$56 – $216
Ownership
For-profit242$153$70 – $401
Government217$122$59 – $244
Non-profit1,178$131$67 – $261
System affiliation
Part of a system1,428$136$67 – $271
Independent216$137$55 – $281

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$229
Median cash price$137
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

1,191 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $134 and the average of the middle 60% is $146; most fall between $67 and $271.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,191 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$79$134$245$403

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $403).

Of the 1,325 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,191 gave a usable cash price; 75 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,644 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (42%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,795 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,644
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here91
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,795

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 HC Blood Product Pooling.

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, “Pooling of platelets or other blood products (CPT 86965) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86965-pooling-of-platelets-or-other-blood-products