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Procedure price report · Blood and blood product transfusion

Push transfusion of blood, age 2 or younger

CPT 36440the billing code this page is about

Rapid hand-delivered transfusion of blood by a clinician in a child 2 years old or younger; the code covers the transfusion procedure, not the blood product.

Hospitals typically charge $656 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 484 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $714. Most fall between $251 and $1,275 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
484
States
45
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 484 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
$120$328$656$1,120$1,932

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $1,932).

How the prices are spread

$79 – $110: 21 hospitals$79$110 – $154: 27 hospitals$154 – $215: 16 hospitals$154$215 – $300: 28 hospitals$300 – $419: 23 hospitals$300$419 – $586: 82 hospitals$586 – $817: 63 hospitals$586$817 – $1,141: 86 hospitals$1,141 – $1,593: 32 hospitals$1,141$1,593 – $2,224: 60 hospitals$1,593median $656price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (438 of 484 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$79$11021
$110$15427
$154$21516
$215$30028
$300$41923
$419$58682
$586$81763
$817$1,14186
$1,141$1,59332
$1,593$2,22460

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$451
Median cash price$656
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.45×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $656.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,011 across 15 hospitalsWA$1,011Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $573 across 15 hospitalsIL$573Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $517 across 31 hospitalsNY$517Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $131 across 14 hospitalsIA$131Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $442 across 10 hospitalsOH$442Pennsylvania: median $694 across 26 hospitalsPA$694New Jersey: median $3,474 across 27 hospitalsNJ$3,474Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,113 across 68 hospitalsCA$1,113Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $290 across 10 hospitalsNE$290Missouri: median $672 across 15 hospitalsMO$672Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $496 across 10 hospitalsAR$496Tennessee: median $145 across 12 hospitalsTN$145North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $274 across 17 hospitalsOK$274Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $337 across 12 hospitalsMS$337Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,120 across 20 hospitalsGA$1,120Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $999 across 63 hospitalsTX$999Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $656. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ27$3,474+430%$484 – $5,339
Georgia GA20$1,120+71%$707 – $1,782
California CA68$1,113+70%$508 – $1,932
Washington WA15$1,011+54%$707 – $1,423
Texas TX63$999+52%$420 – $999
Pennsylvania PA26$694+6%$242 – $1,942
Missouri MO15$672+3%$406 – $1,790
Illinois IL15$573−13%$86 – $1,129
New York NY31$517−21%$450 – $1,049
Arkansas AR10$496−24%$131 – $556
Ohio OH10$442−33%$125 – $604
Mississippi MS12$337−49%$254 – $432
Nebraska NE10$290−56%$99 – $656
Oklahoma OK17$274−58%$83 – $722
Tennessee TN12$145−78%$50 – $475
Iowa IA14$131−80%$131 – $290
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $656.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care415$694$269 – $1,451
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access54$546$213 – $959
Ownership
For-profit91$771$432 – $1,273
Government59$429$153 – $707
Non-profit334$694$229 – $1,646
System affiliation
Part of a system406$707$290 – $1,451
Independent78$497$135 – $994

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,222
Median cash price$656
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

368 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $883 and the average of the middle 60% is $847; most fall between $247 and $1,656.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 368 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
$131$300$883$1,269$1,942

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $1,942).

Of the 411 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 368 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

484 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 530 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted484
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code530

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 September 4, 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 Blood and blood product transfusion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Blood Transfusion Push,<2 Y/O.

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, “Push transfusion of blood, age 2 or younger (CPT 36440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36440-push-transfusion-of-blood-age-2-or-younger