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Unlisted blood bank or transfusion laboratory procedure

CPT 86999the billing code this page is about

Used for a transfusion medicine or blood bank laboratory service that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $92 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 998 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $104. Most fall between $31 and $237 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
998
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 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 998 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
$23$35$92$205$407

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $407).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $21: 39 hospitals$14$21 – $32: 113 hospitals$32 – $47: 127 hospitals$32$47 – $69: 108 hospitals$69 – $102: 88 hospitals$69$102 – $150: 125 hospitals$150 – $221: 122 hospitals$150$221 – $327: 103 hospitals$327 – $483: 48 hospitals$327$483 – $713: 27 hospitals$483median $92price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (900 of 998 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$2139
$21$32113
$32$47127
$47$69108
$69$10288
$102$150125
$150$221122
$221$327103
$327$48348
$483$71327

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$92
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $92.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $152 across 22 hospitalsWA$152Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $92 across 29 hospitalsMN$92Illinois: median $95 across 56 hospitalsIL$95Wisconsin: median $145 across 35 hospitalsWI$145Michigan: median $40 across 14 hospitalsMI$40New York: median $36 across 47 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $78 across 13 hospitalsMA$78Oregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $57 across 19 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $37 across 37 hospitalsIN$37Ohio: median $45 across 34 hospitalsOH$45Pennsylvania: median $55 across 65 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $29 across 30 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $101 across 67 hospitalsCA$101Utah: median $731 across 25 hospitalsUT$731Colorado: median $214 across 29 hospitalsCO$214Nebraska: median $64 across 22 hospitalsNE$64Missouri: median $71 across 33 hospitalsMO$71Kentucky: median $228 across 18 hospitalsKY$228West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $135 across 21 hospitalsMD$135Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $211 across 25 hospitalsAZ$211New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $88 across 26 hospitalsKS$88Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $12 across 16 hospitalsTN$12North Carolina: median $98 across 25 hospitalsNC$98South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $54 across 14 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $32 across 23 hospitalsLA$32Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $264 across 19 hospitalsAL$264Georgia: median $230 across 36 hospitalsGA$230Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $107 across 62 hospitalsTX$107Florida: median $215 across 41 hospitalsFL$215
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $92. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT25$731+691%$731 – $860
Alabama AL19$264+185%$46 – $753
Georgia GA36$230+149%$66 – $698
Kentucky KY18$228+147%$47 – $228
Florida FL41$215+133%$39 – $305
Colorado CO29$214+131%$116 – $294
Arizona AZ25$211+129%$35 – $781
Washington WA22$152+64%$60 – $190
Wisconsin WI35$145+57%$62 – $307
Maryland MD21$135+46%$92 – $179
Texas TX62$107+15%$23 – $314
California CA67$101+9%$35 – $108
North Carolina NC25$98+7%$29 – $191
Illinois IL56$95+3%$37 – $194
Minnesota MN29$920%$35 – $299
Kansas KS26$88−5%$40 – $250
Massachusetts MA13$78−16%$28 – $164
Missouri MO33$71−23%$32 – $190
Nebraska NE22$64−31%$37 – $83
Iowa IA19$57−38%$57 – $60
Pennsylvania PA65$55−40%$32 – $209
Oklahoma OK14$54−42%$50 – $156
Ohio OH34$45−51%$30 – $192
Michigan MI14$40−57%$21 – $131
Indiana IN37$37−60%$22 – $210
New York NY47$36−61%$29 – $81
Louisiana LA23$32−66%$19 – $93
New Jersey NJ30$29−69%$24 – $130
Tennessee TN16$12−87%$12 – $45
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $92.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care809$94$30 – $230
Children’s27$165$55 – $459
Critical access158$88$32 – $250
Ownership
For-profit84$106$36 – $285
Government152$69$29 – $256
Non-profit758$98$32 – $230
System affiliation
Part of a system820$98$31 – $250
Independent178$76$31 – $218

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$145
Median cash price$92
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

735 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $105 and the average of the middle 60% is $114; most fall between $33 and $268.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 735 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
$23$42$105$210$469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $469).

Of the 832 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 735 gave a usable cash price; 67 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

998 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,110 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted998
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code1,110

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 Pack & Ship Cell Product Cmh.

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, “Unlisted blood bank or transfusion laboratory procedure (CPT 86999) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86999-unlisted-blood-bank-or-transfusion-laboratory-procedure