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Procedure price report · Blood and blood product transfusion

Blood filtering to remove red blood cells

CPT 36512the billing code this page is about

Blood is drawn, passed through a machine that removes or exchanges red blood cells, and returned to the body; the charge covers one treatment session.

Hospitals typically charge $2,990 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,103 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,113. Most fall between $1,519 and $5,314 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,103
States
50
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 1,103 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
$948$1,726$2,990$4,902$6,973

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($948 vs $6,973).

How the prices are spread

$500 – $663: 19 hospitals$500$663 – $879: 24 hospitals$879 – $1,165: 62 hospitals$879$1,165 – $1,546: 70 hospitals$1,546 – $2,050: 134 hospitals$1,546$2,050 – $2,719: 123 hospitals$2,719 – $3,606: 183 hospitals$2,719$3,606 – $4,782: 138 hospitals$4,782 – $6,342: 140 hospitals$4,782$6,342 – $8,411: 107 hospitals$6,342median $2,990price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,000 of 1,103 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$500$66319
$663$87924
$879$1,16562
$1,165$1,54670
$1,546$2,050134
$2,050$2,719123
$2,719$3,606183
$3,606$4,782138
$4,782$6,342140
$6,342$8,411107

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,591
Median cash price$2,990
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.88×

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 $2,990.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,134 across 29 hospitalsWA$3,134Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,671 across 24 hospitalsMN$1,671Illinois: median $2,195 across 48 hospitalsIL$2,195Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,142 across 35 hospitalsMI$2,142New York: median $1,940 across 50 hospitalsNY$1,940Massachusetts: median $3,811 across 15 hospitalsMA$3,811Oregon: median $3,208 across 13 hospitalsOR$3,208Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $278 across 15 hospitalsIA$278Indiana: median $3,068 across 24 hospitalsIN$3,068Ohio: median $2,897 across 43 hospitalsOH$2,897Pennsylvania: median $2,207 across 47 hospitalsPA$2,207New Jersey: median $3,786 across 44 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: median $3,205 across 10 hospitalsCT$3,205Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,535 across 93 hospitalsCA$5,535Utah: median $5,708 across 23 hospitalsUT$5,708Colorado: median $3,251 across 12 hospitalsCO$3,251Nebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,917 across 25 hospitalsMO$2,917Kentucky: median $4,092 across 15 hospitalsKY$4,092West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,930 across 25 hospitalsVA$2,930Maryland: median $2,653 across 20 hospitalsMD$2,653Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,537 across 11 hospitalsAZ$1,537New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,725 across 11 hospitalsTN$1,725North Carolina: median $2,762 across 31 hospitalsNC$2,762South Carolina: median $6,842 across 23 hospitalsSC$6,842Oklahoma: median $2,555 across 30 hospitalsOK$2,555Louisiana: median $1,426 across 22 hospitalsLA$1,426Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,924 across 15 hospitalsAL$2,924Georgia: median $4,796 across 57 hospitalsGA$4,796Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,754 across 114 hospitalsTX$3,754Florida: median $1,796 across 110 hospitalsFL$1,796
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,990. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC23$6,842+129%$2,448 – $6,842
Utah UT23$5,708+91%$5,708 – $6,716
California CA93$5,535+85%$2,754 – $8,411
Georgia GA57$4,796+60%$3,586 – $7,470
Kentucky KY15$4,092+37%$774 – $4,985
Massachusetts MA15$3,811+27%$1,879 – $4,124
New Jersey NJ44$3,786+27%$1,806 – $5,855
Texas TX114$3,754+26%$2,256 – $5,096
Colorado CO12$3,251+9%$2,184 – $5,176
Oregon OR13$3,208+7%$191 – $8,273
Connecticut CT10$3,205+7%$2,211 – $3,461
Washington WA29$3,134+5%$1,567 – $3,498
Indiana IN24$3,068+3%$1,714 – $4,363
Virginia VA25$2,930−2%$2,791 – $3,349
Alabama AL15$2,924−2%$1,268 – $7,932
Missouri MO25$2,917−2%$1,552 – $3,751
Ohio OH43$2,897−3%$1,986 – $5,266
North Carolina NC31$2,762−8%$2,085 – $3,667
Maryland MD20$2,653−11%$1,728 – $3,997
Oklahoma OK30$2,555−15%$952 – $3,521
Pennsylvania PA47$2,207−26%$1,592 – $5,005
Illinois IL48$2,195−27%$678 – $5,314
Michigan MI35$2,142−28%$1,667 – $4,939
New York NY50$1,940−35%$1,309 – $4,500
Florida FL110$1,796−40%$1,091 – $4,401
Tennessee TN11$1,725−42%$811 – $2,511
Minnesota MN24$1,671−44%$1,632 – $1,947
Arizona AZ11$1,537−49%$1,299 – $1,715
Louisiana LA22$1,426−52%$857 – $2,778
Iowa IA15$278−91%$278 – $3,140
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $2,990.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,000$2,930$1,496 – $5,314
Children’s45$3,601$2,211 – $6,813
Critical access52$3,044$1,713 – $4,579
Ownership
For-profit148$3,146$1,537 – $6,539
Government132$3,021$1,557 – $4,796
Non-profit817$2,897$1,499 – $5,314
System affiliation
Part of a system992$3,023$1,557 – $5,314
Independent111$2,511$1,207 – $5,098

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,129
Median cash price$2,990
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

814 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,146 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,230; most fall between $1,560 and $5,535.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 814 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
$952$1,840$3,146$4,939$6,842

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($952 vs $6,842).

Of the 877 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 814 gave a usable cash price; 36 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

1,103 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,193 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,103
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,193

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 Therapeutic Apheresis Red Blood Cells.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Blood filtering to remove red blood cells (CPT 36512) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36512-blood-filtering-to-remove-red-blood-cells