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Procedure price report · Blood and blood product transfusion

Blood filtering to remove platelets

CPT 36513the billing code this page is about

Blood is drawn, passed through a machine that removes platelets, and returned to the body; the charge covers one treatment session.

Hospitals typically charge $1,874 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 967 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,998. Most fall between $699 and $3,693 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
967
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 967 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
$428$861$1,874$3,485$5,791

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($428 vs $5,791).

How the prices are spread

$236 – $335: 34 hospitals$236$335 – $476: 28 hospitals$476 – $676: 78 hospitals$476$676 – $960: 75 hospitals$960 – $1,364: 118 hospitals$960$1,364 – $1,937: 118 hospitals$1,937 – $2,752: 147 hospitals$1,937$2,752 – $3,909: 147 hospitals$3,909 – $5,552: 72 hospitals$3,909$5,552 – $7,887: 54 hospitals$5,552median $1,874price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (871 of 967 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$236$33534
$335$47628
$476$67678
$676$96075
$960$1,364118
$1,364$1,937118
$1,937$2,752147
$2,752$3,909147
$3,909$5,55272
$5,552$7,88754

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$451
Median cash price$1,874
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.2×

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 $1,874.

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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,607 across 24 hospitalsWA$1,607Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $1,632 across 14 hospitalsMN$1,632Illinois: median $1,497 across 42 hospitalsIL$1,497Wisconsin: median $2,395 across 11 hospitalsWI$2,395Michigan: median $1,726 across 26 hospitalsMI$1,726New York: median $780 across 44 hospitalsNY$780Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $275 across 21 hospitalsIA$275Indiana: median $1,549 across 30 hospitalsIN$1,549Ohio: median $2,397 across 39 hospitalsOH$2,397Pennsylvania: median $1,178 across 40 hospitalsPA$1,178New Jersey: median $3,786 across 40 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,246 across 95 hospitalsCA$1,246Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,188 across 13 hospitalsCO$1,188Nebraska: median $566 across 14 hospitalsNE$566Missouri: median $1,126 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,126Kentucky: median $3,175 across 12 hospitalsKY$3,175West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,560 across 25 hospitalsVA$3,560Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,715 across 20 hospitalsAZ$1,715New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $249 across 10 hospitalsTN$249North Carolina: median $2,531 across 17 hospitalsNC$2,531South Carolina: median $3,638 across 21 hospitalsSC$3,638Oklahoma: median $817 across 31 hospitalsOK$817Louisiana: median $683 across 23 hospitalsLA$683Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,005 across 43 hospitalsGA$6,005Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,773 across 102 hospitalsTX$2,773Florida: median $1,178 across 97 hospitalsFL$1,178
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,874. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA43$6,005+220%$2,698 – $7,535
New Jersey NJ40$3,786+102%$511 – $5,741
South Carolina SC21$3,638+94%$2,448 – $3,638
Virginia VA25$3,560+90%$1,804 – $3,716
Kentucky KY12$3,175+69%$188 – $3,175
Texas TX102$2,773+48%$2,069 – $3,754
North Carolina NC17$2,531+35%$1,368 – $2,762
Ohio OH39$2,397+28%$1,634 – $4,909
Wisconsin WI11$2,395+28%$1,959 – $2,395
Michigan MI26$1,726−8%$607 – $3,693
Arizona AZ20$1,715−8%$1,298 – $15,040
Minnesota MN14$1,632−13%$1,518 – $1,879
Washington WA24$1,607−14%$712 – $3,088
Indiana IN30$1,549−17%$882 – $2,162
Illinois IL42$1,497−20%$428 – $3,100
California CA95$1,246−34%$1,120 – $6,332
Colorado CO13$1,188−37%$1,188 – $4,179
Florida FL97$1,178−37%$837 – $3,147
Pennsylvania PA40$1,178−37%$513 – $2,487
Missouri MO19$1,126−40%$732 – $2,723
Oklahoma OK31$817−56%$174 – $1,741
New York NY44$780−58%$517 – $3,942
Louisiana LA23$683−64%$483 – $2,250
Nebraska NE14$566−70%$299 – $1,703
Iowa IA21$275−85%$275 – $2,938
Tennessee TN10$249−87%$134 – $1,496
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not 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
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $1,874.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care877$1,901$710 – $3,725
Children’s26$1,478$654 – $4,121
Critical access59$1,224$388 – $2,772
Ownership
For-profit131$2,069$747 – $4,880
Government115$1,849$517 – $3,615
Non-profit716$1,859$712 – $3,693
System affiliation
Part of a system865$1,919$732 – $3,693
Independent102$1,273$483 – $3,803

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,687
Median cash price$1,874
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

708 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,080 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,172; most fall between $882 and $3,725.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 708 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
$399$1,109$2,080$3,560$6,005

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($399 vs $6,005).

Of the 750 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 708 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

967 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,034 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted967
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code1,034

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 Ther Apheresis,Platelets.

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, “Blood filtering to remove platelets (CPT 36513) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36513-blood-filtering-to-remove-platelets