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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Massachusetts 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?

$33.11

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $33.11 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $30.20 from a physician practice, and about $178 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 9 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$30.20$20.89 to $34.67
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$178$77.62 to $224

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $178 · 10th to 90th $26 to $295Professionalmedian $30 · 10th to 90th $20 to $65
$5$20$100$500$2Kfacility $178professional $30

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
$26.30
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$25.12
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$269.15
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$95.50
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$295.12
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.14
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$67.61
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$91.20
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$9,772.37
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$41.69
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$64.57
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$416.87
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$269.15
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$95.50
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$489.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$151.36

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 27th of 51

$33.11

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.