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Splitting a unit of blood or blood product

CPT 86985the billing code this page is about

Laboratory work to divide a single unit of blood or a blood product into smaller portions; the charge applies to each unit split.

Hospitals typically charge $135 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,562 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $146. Most fall between $59 and $277 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,562
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,562 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$73$135$242$483

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $483).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $39: 100 hospitals$29$39 – $54: 105 hospitals$54 – $75: 110 hospitals$54$75 – $103: 201 hospitals$103 – $142: 220 hospitals$103$142 – $196: 199 hospitals$196 – $270: 223 hospitals$196$270 – $372: 116 hospitals$372 – $512: 69 hospitals$372$512 – $706: 63 hospitals$512median $135price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,406 of 1,562 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$39100
$39$54105
$54$75110
$75$103201
$103$142220
$142$196199
$196$270223
$270$372116
$372$51269
$512$70663

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$135
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.78×

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 $135.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $95 across 11 hospitalsME$95Vermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $93 across 35 hospitalsWA$93Idaho: median $214 across 14 hospitalsID$214Montana: 5 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 $36 across 20 hospitalsMN$36Illinois: median $134 across 62 hospitalsIL$134Wisconsin: median $86 across 40 hospitalsWI$86Michigan: median $79 across 43 hospitalsMI$79New York: median $203 across 58 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: median $185 across 19 hospitalsMA$185Oregon: median $92 across 19 hospitalsOR$92Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $165 across 21 hospitalsIA$165Indiana: median $132 across 55 hospitalsIN$132Ohio: median $261 across 69 hospitalsOH$261Pennsylvania: median $266 across 73 hospitalsPA$266New Jersey: median $190 across 43 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: median $199 across 17 hospitalsCT$199Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $259 across 94 hospitalsCA$259Utah: median $214 across 29 hospitalsUT$214Colorado: median $195 across 39 hospitalsCO$195Nebraska: median $104 across 21 hospitalsNE$104Missouri: median $107 across 39 hospitalsMO$107Kentucky: median $153 across 30 hospitalsKY$153West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $176 across 44 hospitalsVA$176Maryland: median $48 across 20 hospitalsMD$48Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $203 across 22 hospitalsAZ$203New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $77 across 16 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $114 across 16 hospitalsAR$114Tennessee: median $38 across 42 hospitalsTN$38North Carolina: median $107 across 42 hospitalsNC$107South Carolina: median $116 across 37 hospitalsSC$116Oklahoma: median $65 across 30 hospitalsOK$65Louisiana: median $67 across 34 hospitalsLA$67Mississippi: median $52 across 30 hospitalsMS$52Alabama: median $137 across 15 hospitalsAL$137Georgia: median $119 across 59 hospitalsGA$119Hawaii: median $145 across 10 hospitalsHI$145Texas: median $126 across 147 hospitalsTX$126Florida: median $120 across 93 hospitalsFL$120
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $135. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA73$266+97%$174 – $718
Ohio OH69$261+93%$127 – $606
California CA94$259+91%$128 – $364
Idaho ID14$214+58%$50 – $1,315
Utah UT29$214+58%$196 – $251
Arizona AZ22$203+50%$154 – $483
New York NY58$203+50%$71 – $482
Connecticut CT17$199+47%$92 – $246
Colorado CO39$195+44%$108 – $502
New Jersey NJ43$190+40%$43 – $365
Massachusetts MA19$185+37%$147 – $323
Virginia VA44$176+30%$84 – $298
Iowa IA21$165+22%$104 – $165
Kentucky KY30$153+13%$76 – $283
Hawaii HI10$145+7%$62 – $279
Alabama AL15$137+1%$106 – $160
Illinois IL62$134−1%$48 – $203
Indiana IN55$132−2%$71 – $213
Texas TX147$126−7%$67 – $251
Florida FL93$120−11%$34 – $244
Georgia GA59$119−12%$68 – $158
South Carolina SC37$116−15%$84 – $247
Arkansas AR16$114−15%$103 – $137
Missouri MO39$107−21%$75 – $158
North Carolina NC42$107−21%$32 – $934
Nebraska NE21$104−23%$33 – $122
Maine ME11$95−30%$76 – $198
Washington WA35$93−31%$56 – $218
Oregon OR19$92−32%$81 – $196
Wisconsin WI40$86−36%$75 – $136
Michigan MI43$79−41%$68 – $234
Kansas KS16$77−43%$68 – $127
Louisiana LA34$67−51%$40 – $233
Oklahoma OK30$65−52%$58 – $122
Mississippi MS30$52−62%$41 – $94
Maryland MD20$48−65%$36 – $64
Tennessee TN42$38−72%$18 – $52
Minnesota MN20$36−73%$27 – $101
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $135.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,352$137$59 – $279
Children’s40$130$45 – $298
Critical access163$113$57 – $218
Ownership
For-profit206$158$75 – $446
Government181$116$52 – $203
Non-profit1,168$134$58 – $279
System affiliation
Part of a system1,399$135$61 – $276
Independent163$148$50 – $298

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$226
Median cash price$135
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

1,164 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $130 and the average of the middle 60% is $145; most fall between $61 and $279.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,164 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$71$130$247$502

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $502).

Of the 1,288 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,164 gave a usable cash price; 77 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,562 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,692 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,562
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
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 — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code1,692

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 Splitting.

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, “Splitting a unit of blood or blood product (CPT 86985) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86985-splitting-a-unit-of-blood-or-blood-product