I was wondering if other facilities have any success with billing/reimbursement of rare donor fees. This is especially costly when a contracted supplier has to obtain blood from another blood center and repeats the antigen typing, then passes on to the Transfusion Service the higher cost of the actual product and the rare donor fees, as well as antigen typing fees from both facilities. How much of this are other transfusion services passing on to the patient and what specific cpt codes are you using?

Thanks for your response!

Unfortunately, we have been unable to bill for these charges. We verify the antigen typing of red blood cells that are ordered as antigen negative in our transfusion service. Therefore, we have been told that this would be double billing so we are "eating" these rare donor charges.