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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Automated white blood cell type count

CPT 85004the billing code this page is about

Machine-run count that breaks white blood cells into their different types, without a full blood count.

Hospitals typically charge $32 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,172 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $33. Most fall between $15 and $58 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,172
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,172 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
$9$17$32$49$84

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $84).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $9: 61 hospitals$7$9 – $12: 49 hospitals$12 – $15: 86 hospitals$12$15 – $20: 107 hospitals$20 – $27: 117 hospitals$20$27 – $35: 182 hospitals$35 – $47: 192 hospitals$35$47 – $62: 110 hospitals$62 – $82: 94 hospitals$62$82 – $108: 64 hospitals$82median $32price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,062 of 1,172 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$961
$9$1249
$12$1586
$15$20107
$20$27117
$27$35182
$35$47192
$47$62110
$62$8294
$82$10864

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $32.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 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 $19 across 35 hospitalsWA$19Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $16 across 14 hospitalsMT$16North Dakota: median $38 across 14 hospitalsND$38Minnesota: median $33 across 74 hospitalsMN$33Illinois: median $44 across 62 hospitalsIL$44Wisconsin: median $31 across 67 hospitalsWI$31Michigan: median $22 across 27 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $19 across 53 hospitalsNY$19Massachusetts: median $26 across 36 hospitalsMA$26Oregon: median $26 across 10 hospitalsOR$26Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $54 across 28 hospitalsSD$54Iowa: median $34 across 49 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $20 across 43 hospitalsIN$20Ohio: median $20 across 31 hospitalsOH$20Pennsylvania: median $10 across 46 hospitalsPA$10New Jersey: median $7 across 30 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $23 across 12 hospitalsCT$23Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $63 across 58 hospitalsCA$63Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $116 across 13 hospitalsCO$116Nebraska: median $63 across 20 hospitalsNE$63Missouri: median $43 across 31 hospitalsMO$43Kentucky: median $30 across 25 hospitalsKY$30West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $29 across 29 hospitalsVA$29Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $16 across 14 hospitalsKS$16Arkansas: median $34 across 13 hospitalsAR$34Tennessee: median $20 across 35 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: median $32 across 29 hospitalsNC$32South Carolina: median $36 across 14 hospitalsSC$36Oklahoma: median $27 across 26 hospitalsOK$27Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $41 across 17 hospitalsMS$41Alabama: median $26 across 15 hospitalsAL$26Georgia: median $28 across 44 hospitalsGA$28Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $48 across 55 hospitalsTX$48Florida: median $13 across 26 hospitalsFL$13
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $32. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO13$116+258%$39 – $124
California CA58$63+94%$29 – $85
Nebraska NE20$63+94%$37 – $92
South Dakota SD28$54+68%$36 – $92
Texas TX55$48+48%$25 – $69
Illinois IL62$44+37%$29 – $80
Missouri MO31$43+31%$36 – $66
Mississippi MS17$41+25%$15 – $41
North Dakota ND14$38+17%$33 – $50
South Carolina SC14$36+10%$33 – $36
Arkansas AR13$34+4%$21 – $35
Iowa IA49$34+4%$21 – $46
Minnesota MN74$33+3%$15 – $48
North Carolina NC29$32−2%$14 – $39
Wisconsin WI67$31−5%$28 – $70
Kentucky KY25$30−7%$19 – $79
Virginia VA29$29−9%$27 – $40
Georgia GA44$28−13%$16 – $102
Oklahoma OK26$27−17%$23 – $58
Oregon OR10$26−19%$20 – $44
Alabama AL15$26−20%$19 – $53
Massachusetts MA36$26−20%$15 – $78
Connecticut CT12$23−29%$20 – $28
Michigan MI27$22−33%$10 – $36
Indiana IN43$20−37%$14 – $42
Ohio OH31$20−37%$18 – $31
Tennessee TN35$20−40%$11 – $22
Washington WA35$19−41%$13 – $33
New York NY53$19−41%$6 – $35
Montana MT14$16−49%$14 – $46
Kansas KS14$16−52%$10 – $49
Florida FL26$13−59%$7 – $57
Pennsylvania PA46$10−70%$5 – $32
New Jersey NJ30$7−78%$6 – $7
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $32.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care873$29$13 – $58
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access285$36$20 – $57
Ownership
For-profit112$26$11 – $92
Government154$32$16 – $56
Non-profit906$33$15 – $58
System affiliation
Part of a system1,019$33$15 – $58
Independent153$30$14 – $53

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$55
Median cash price$32
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

815 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $34 and the average of the middle 60% is $34; most fall between $16 and $58.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 815 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
$11$19$34$51$84

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $84).

Of the 877 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 815 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 37 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,172 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,238 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,172
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,238

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 Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as BLOOD COUNT AUTOMATED DIFFERENTIAL WBC COUNT 85004.

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, “Automated white blood cell type count (CPT 85004) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85004-automated-white-blood-cell-type-count