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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Iowa 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?

$45.71

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $45.71 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $23.99 from a physician practice, and about $74.13 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$23.99$20.42 to $33.11
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$74.13$47.86 to $120

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $74 · 10th to 90th $37 to $224Professionalmedian $24 · 10th to 90th $14 to $62
$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $74professional $24

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
$39.81
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$23.99
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$61.66
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$144.54
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$436.52
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$77.62
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$141.25
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$457.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$61.66
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$14.45

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 16th of 51

$45.71

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.