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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

New Jersey 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?

$40.74

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $40.74 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $21.88 from a physician practice, and about $138 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$21.88$18.20 to $27.54
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$138$66.07 to $209

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $138 · 10th to 90th $38 to $468Professionalmedian $22 · 10th to 90th $16 to $32
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $138professional $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
$31.62
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$32.36
AmeriHealth
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$8,128.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$93.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$53.70
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$13.80
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$23,988.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$4.79
Typical High
$4.79
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$309.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$30.90

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 21st of 51

$40.74

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.