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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Michigan 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?

$29.51

Typical negotiated rate. In Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $29.51 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $28.18 from a physician practice, and about $30.20 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$28.18$19.05 to $29.51
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$30.20$29.51 to $54.95

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $30 · 10th to 90th $28 to $85Professionalmedian $28 · 10th to 90th $4 to $36
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $30professional $28

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
$28.18
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$37.15
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$11.75
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$4.47
Typical High
$4.47
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$37.15
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$54.95
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$40.74
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$29.51
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$446.68
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$26.92

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 36th of 51

$29.51

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.