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Blood Compatibility Test - Incubation Method

Alabama rates for HCPCS 86921

This laboratory test checks whether a unit of donor blood is safe to give to a specific patient before a transfusion. It mixes a sample of the patient's blood with the donor blood and allows extra time for the mixture to react, which helps catch certain antibodies that take longer to show up than a quick check would.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Blood Compatibility Test - Incubation Method cost?

$21.88

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $21.88 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $21.88 from a physician practice, and about $39.81 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 4 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$19.95 to $22.91
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$39.81$21.88 to $67.61

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $40 · 10th to 90th $22 to $135Professionalmedian $22 · 10th to 90th $17 to $28
$1$5$20$100facility $40professional $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
$21.88
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$27.54
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$57.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$15.14
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.74
Median
$1.51
Typical High
$69.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$79.43
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$144.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$21.88

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 10.2 times more in North Dakota than in Minnesota. 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.

Alabama· 39th of 51

$21.88

ND $129MN $12.59

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.