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Tissue Typing For Transplant Matching

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 81371

A blood test that identifies the tissue markers on a person's white blood cells, used to judge how well a donor and a recipient match before a transplant. It reads a limited set of these markers rather than the full detailed panel. Results are used for organ and bone marrow matching and for checking a previously reported result.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Tissue Typing For Transplant Matching cost?

$513

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $513 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $479 from a physician practice, and about $550 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$479$407 to $525
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$550$479 to $1,047

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $550 · 10th to 90th $407 to $1,479Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $204 to $1,445
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $550professional $479

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$2,691.53
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,288.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$407.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$630.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$407.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$478.63

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.7 times more in Alaska than in Rhode Island. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Louisiana· 6th of 51

$513

AK $912RI $245

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.