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Tissue Typing For Transplant Matching

Minnesota 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?

$407

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $407 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $407 from a physician practice, and about $1,047 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 6 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$407$380 to $468
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,047$407 to $1,514

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $407 to $2,951Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $324 to $589
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,047professional $407

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
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$1,202.26
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$741.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$407.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,801.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$831.76
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,951.21
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$776.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,230.27
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,071.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$489.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$870.96

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 19th of 51

$407

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.