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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Tennessee 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?

$25.70

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $25.70 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $24.55 from a physician practice, and about $145 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 5 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$24.55$24.55 to $25.70
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$145$36.31 to $182

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $145 · 10th to 90th $26 to $316Professionalmedian $25 · 10th to 90th $22 to $30
$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $145professional $25

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
$25.70
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$28.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$33.11
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.17
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$123.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$46.77
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$223.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$144.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$29.51

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 44th of 51

$25.70

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.