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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Routine blood draw from a vein

CPT 36415the billing code this page is about

Standard collection of a blood sample by needle from a vein, usually in the arm, for laboratory testing; the code covers the draw itself, not the tests run on the sample.

Hospitals typically charge $16 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,470 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $17. Most fall between $8 and $30 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,470
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 3,470 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$5$9$16$26$41

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $41).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $5: 155 hospitals$4$5 – $7: 171 hospitals$7 – $9: 258 hospitals$7$9 – $11: 398 hospitals$11 – $15: 412 hospitals$11$15 – $20: 498 hospitals$20 – $26: 497 hospitals$20$26 – $34: 386 hospitals$34 – $44: 234 hospitals$34$44 – $58: 115 hospitals$44median $16price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,124 of 3,470 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$5155
$5$7171
$7$9258
$9$11398
$11$15412
$15$20498
$20$26497
$26$34386
$34$44234
$44$58115

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $16.

Alaska: median $36 across 19 hospitalsAK$36Maine: median $15 across 25 hospitalsME$15Vermont: median $26 across 13 hospitalsVT$26New Hampshire: median $14 across 25 hospitalsNH$14Washington: median $23 across 79 hospitalsWA$23Idaho: median $22 across 25 hospitalsID$22Montana: median $18 across 35 hospitalsMT$18North Dakota: median $18 across 33 hospitalsND$18Minnesota: median $24 across 107 hospitalsMN$24Illinois: median $24 across 148 hospitalsIL$24Wisconsin: median $19 across 109 hospitalsWI$19Michigan: median $13 across 101 hospitalsMI$13New York: median $12 across 115 hospitalsNY$12Massachusetts: median $14 across 53 hospitalsMA$14Oregon: median $20 across 52 hospitalsOR$20Nevada: median $26 across 24 hospitalsNV$26Wyoming: median $22 across 14 hospitalsWY$22South Dakota: median $38 across 40 hospitalsSD$38Iowa: median $19 across 96 hospitalsIA$19Indiana: median $11 across 92 hospitalsIN$11Ohio: median $15 across 145 hospitalsOH$15Pennsylvania: median $12 across 126 hospitalsPA$12New Jersey: median $10 across 58 hospitalsNJ$10Connecticut: median $15 across 23 hospitalsCT$15Rhode Island: median $13 across 10 hospitalsRI$13California: median $18 across 220 hospitalsCA$18Utah: median $24 across 42 hospitalsUT$24Colorado: median $21 across 70 hospitalsCO$21Nebraska: median $28 across 81 hospitalsNE$28Missouri: median $14 across 81 hospitalsMO$14Kentucky: median $12 across 68 hospitalsKY$12West Virginia: median $12 across 44 hospitalsWV$12Virginia: median $19 across 73 hospitalsVA$19Maryland: median $21 across 30 hospitalsMD$21Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $14 across 39 hospitalsAZ$14New Mexico: median $20 across 31 hospitalsNM$20Kansas: median $16 across 94 hospitalsKS$16Arkansas: median $9 across 40 hospitalsAR$9Tennessee: median $9 across 83 hospitalsTN$9North Carolina: median $14 across 91 hospitalsNC$14South Carolina: median $18 across 51 hospitalsSC$18Oklahoma: median $12 across 72 hospitalsOK$12Louisiana: median $7 across 57 hospitalsLA$7Mississippi: median $7 across 55 hospitalsMS$7Alabama: median $8 across 43 hospitalsAL$8Georgia: median $13 across 109 hospitalsGA$13Hawaii: median $14 across 19 hospitalsHI$14Texas: median $20 across 240 hospitalsTX$20Florida: median $19 across 163 hospitalsFL$19
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $16. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD40$38+133%$22 – $48
Alaska AK19$36+122%$23 – $43
Nebraska NE81$28+71%$14 – $35
Vermont VT13$26+60%$14 – $35
Nevada NV24$26+59%$9 – $48
Utah UT42$24+50%$21 – $31
Illinois IL148$24+48%$14 – $34
Minnesota MN107$24+46%$10 – $32
Washington WA79$23+41%$10 – $36
Idaho ID25$22+38%$16 – $32
Wyoming WY14$22+35%$15 – $46
Colorado CO70$21+32%$12 – $33
Maryland MD30$21+30%$10 – $26
Texas TX240$20+22%$8 – $36
New Mexico NM31$20+21%$9 – $28
Oregon OR52$20+20%$14 – $26
Florida FL163$19+18%$8 – $53
Wisconsin WI109$19+18%$13 – $24
Iowa IA96$19+17%$13 – $29
Virginia VA73$19+17%$11 – $25
California CA220$18+14%$6 – $40
South Carolina SC51$18+12%$14 – $36
North Dakota ND33$18+11%$16 – $24
Montana MT35$18+9%$15 – $26
Kansas KS94$16−2%$11 – $23
Maine ME25$15−6%$9 – $26
Connecticut CT23$15−8%$10 – $15
Ohio OH145$15−10%$10 – $23
New Hampshire NH25$14−11%$10 – $28
Missouri MO81$14−11%$9 – $21
Massachusetts MA53$14−12%$8 – $21
North Carolina NC91$14−16%$5 – $26
Arizona AZ39$14−17%$4 – $61
Hawaii HI19$14−17%$9 – $43
Georgia GA109$13−18%$7 – $32
Rhode Island RI10$13−18%$8 – $14
Michigan MI101$13−22%$9 – $19
Kentucky KY68$12−23%$8 – $23
Oklahoma OK72$12−26%$6 – $19
West Virginia WV44$12−26%$7 – $25
Pennsylvania PA126$12−28%$7 – $22
New York NY115$12−29%$7 – $31
Indiana IN92$11−35%$5 – $24
New Jersey NJ58$10−40%$9 – $26
Arkansas AR40$9−42%$7 – $17
Tennessee TN83$9−47%$5 – $18
Alabama AL43$8−52%$4 – $18
Louisiana LA57$7−57%$4 – $14
Mississippi MS55$7−59%$3 – $10
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $16.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,395$15$8 – $29
Children’s68$19$10 – $32
Critical access998$18$10 – $30
Ownership
For-profit489$21$9 – $60
Government654$16$8 – $30
Non-profit2,318$16$8 – $27
System affiliation
Part of a system2,802$16$8 – $30
Independent668$16$8 – $28

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$28
Median cash price$16
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

2,372 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $17 and the average of the middle 60% is $17; most fall between $8 and $29.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,372 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$5$10$17$26$40

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $40).

Of the 2,550 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,372 gave a usable cash price; 64 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 112 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,470 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (88%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,701 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,470
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here100
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,701

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Collection Venous Blood Venipuncture.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Routine blood draw from a vein (CPT 36415) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36415-routine-blood-draw-from-a-vein