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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Nebraska 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 Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $45.71 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $20.42 from a physician practice, and about $162 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$20.42$19.95 to $20.89
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$162$83.18 to $234

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $162 · 10th to 90th $40 to $398Professionalmedian $20 · 10th to 90th $15 to $37
$10$20$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $162professional $20

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
$158.49
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$20.89
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$208.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$63.10
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$251.19
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$51.29
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$63.10
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$288.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$66.07

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 18th 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.