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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

South Carolina 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?

$75.86

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $75.86 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $23.99 from a physician practice, and about $148 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$23.99$23.99 to $26.30
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$148$75.86 to $209

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $148 · 10th to 90th $25 to $355Professionalmedian $24 · 10th to 90th $11 to $26
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $148professional $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
$30.20
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$26.30
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$93.33
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$19.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.91
Median
$4.57
Typical High
$144.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$37.15
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$38.02
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$13.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$870.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$30.90

Where South Carolina 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.

South Carolina· 6th of 51

$75.86

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.