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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Alabama rates for HCPCS 86920

This is a rapid laboratory step used to check compatibility between a patient's blood and a specific unit of donor blood before a transfusion. It is one of the checks performed as part of pre-transfusion testing.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion cost?

$25.70

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $25.70 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $24.55 from a physician practice, and about $47.86 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 4 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$24.55$20.89 to $25.70
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$47.86$24.55 to $110

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $48 · 10th to 90th $25 to $126Professionalmedian $25 · 10th to 90th $21 to $30
$1$5$20$100$500facility $48professional $25

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
$24.55
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$30.20
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$57.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$16.98
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.83
Median
$1.74
Typical High
$77.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$89.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$144.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$26.92

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 6.8 times more in West Virginia than in Oklahoma. 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.

Alabama· 43rd of 51

$25.70

WV $148OK $21.88

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.