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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Colorado 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?

$32.36

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $32.36 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $21.88 from a physician practice, and about $115 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 7 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$21.88$19.50 to $29.51
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$115$43.65 to $162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $115 · 10th to 90th $19 to $269Professionalmedian $22 · 10th to 90th $15 to $32
$1$5$20$100$500facility $115professional $22

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
$25.12
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$32.36
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$707.95
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$27.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.49
Median
$0.89
Typical High
$44.67
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$30.90
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$41.69
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$177.83
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$16.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$223.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$25.70

Where Colorado 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.

Colorado· 30th of 51

$32.36

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.