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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

White blood cell type count read by hand

CPT 85007the billing code this page is about

A technologist examines a stained blood smear under a microscope to count the different white blood cell types and check cell appearance.

Hospitals typically charge $31 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,914 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $33. Most fall between $14 and $62 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,914
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 2,914 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
$8$16$31$54$97

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $97).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 95 hospitals$5$7 – $9: 115 hospitals$9 – $13: 205 hospitals$9$13 – $19: 309 hospitals$19 – $27: 406 hospitals$19$27 – $38: 446 hospitals$38 – $55: 474 hospitals$38$55 – $78: 315 hospitals$78 – $111: 159 hospitals$78$111 – $158: 104 hospitals$111median $31price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,628 of 2,914 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$795
$7$9115
$9$13205
$13$19309
$19$27406
$27$38446
$38$55474
$55$78315
$78$111159
$111$158104

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $31.

Alaska: median $58 across 16 hospitalsAK$58Maine: median $16 across 16 hospitalsME$16Vermont: median $33 across 10 hospitalsVT$33New Hampshire: median $31 across 22 hospitalsNH$31Washington: median $28 across 65 hospitalsWA$28Idaho: median $29 across 23 hospitalsID$29Montana: median $32 across 28 hospitalsMT$32North Dakota: median $29 across 33 hospitalsND$29Minnesota: median $38 across 81 hospitalsMN$38Illinois: median $38 across 118 hospitalsIL$38Wisconsin: median $21 across 82 hospitalsWI$21Michigan: median $20 across 87 hospitalsMI$20New York: median $14 across 106 hospitalsNY$14Massachusetts: median $29 across 51 hospitalsMA$29Oregon: median $25 across 42 hospitalsOR$25Nevada: median $28 across 20 hospitalsNV$28Wyoming: median $38 across 16 hospitalsWY$38South Dakota: median $72 across 35 hospitalsSD$72Iowa: median $34 across 81 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $23 across 72 hospitalsIN$23Ohio: median $31 across 132 hospitalsOH$31Pennsylvania: median $18 across 103 hospitalsPA$18New Jersey: median $4 across 52 hospitalsNJ$4Connecticut: median $21 across 23 hospitalsCT$21Rhode Island: median $28 across 10 hospitalsRI$28California: median $56 across 138 hospitalsCA$56Utah: median $29 across 38 hospitalsUT$29Colorado: median $35 across 66 hospitalsCO$35Nebraska: median $56 across 79 hospitalsNE$56Missouri: median $29 across 69 hospitalsMO$29Kentucky: median $29 across 62 hospitalsKY$29West Virginia: median $23 across 36 hospitalsWV$23Virginia: median $30 across 60 hospitalsVA$30Maryland: median $27 across 28 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $34 across 41 hospitalsAZ$34New Mexico: median $48 across 19 hospitalsNM$48Kansas: median $26 across 89 hospitalsKS$26Arkansas: median $15 across 39 hospitalsAR$15Tennessee: median $14 across 64 hospitalsTN$14North Carolina: median $36 across 81 hospitalsNC$36South Carolina: median $39 across 40 hospitalsSC$39Oklahoma: median $32 across 69 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: median $12 across 47 hospitalsLA$12Mississippi: median $17 across 46 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: median $24 across 34 hospitalsAL$24Georgia: median $32 across 79 hospitalsGA$32Hawaii: median $21 across 17 hospitalsHI$21Texas: median $43 across 216 hospitalsTX$43Florida: median $78 across 127 hospitalsFL$78
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $31. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL127$78+155%$14 – $300
South Dakota SD35$72+135%$40 – $113
Alaska AK16$58+91%$25 – $138
California CA138$56+84%$27 – $97
Nebraska NE79$56+83%$30 – $81
New Mexico NM19$48+56%$19 – $76
Texas TX216$43+41%$19 – $99
South Carolina SC40$39+28%$18 – $44
Illinois IL118$38+24%$23 – $68
Minnesota MN81$38+23%$25 – $58
Wyoming WY16$38+23%$34 – $57
North Carolina NC81$36+19%$18 – $49
Colorado CO66$35+14%$20 – $60
Arizona AZ41$34+10%$15 – $158
Iowa IA81$34+10%$26 – $46
Vermont VT10$33+8%$17 – $50
Oklahoma OK69$32+6%$11 – $44
Montana MT28$32+5%$17 – $53
Georgia GA79$32+3%$7 – $60
Ohio OH132$310%$17 – $73
New Hampshire NH22$310%$15 – $78
Virginia VA60$300%$18 – $73
Utah UT38$29−4%$25 – $74
Kentucky KY62$29−5%$19 – $53
Idaho ID23$29−5%$18 – $35
Massachusetts MA51$29−5%$14 – $47
Missouri MO69$29−5%$14 – $60
North Dakota ND33$29−5%$23 – $40
Nevada NV20$28−7%$20 – $43
Rhode Island RI10$28−10%$13 – $30
Washington WA65$28−10%$17 – $48
Maryland MD28$27−11%$17 – $33
Kansas KS89$26−15%$12 – $41
Oregon OR42$25−17%$21 – $45
Alabama AL34$24−23%$6 – $112
Indiana IN72$23−24%$12 – $41
West Virginia WV36$23−26%$17 – $32
Hawaii HI17$21−31%$15 – $31
Wisconsin WI82$21−32%$14 – $43
Connecticut CT23$21−33%$12 – $24
Michigan MI87$20−36%$11 – $37
Pennsylvania PA103$18−40%$4 – $50
Mississippi MS46$17−45%$6 – $24
Maine ME16$16−47%$10 – $28
Arkansas AR39$15−52%$8 – $28
New York NY106$14−53%$9 – $49
Tennessee TN64$14−55%$6 – $37
Louisiana LA47$12−61%$5 – $20
New Jersey NJ52$4−86%$4 – $23
Delaware DE6not 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 $31.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,016$29$12 – $64
Children’s55$58$22 – $94
Critical access834$34$18 – $56
Ownership
For-profit416$49$16 – $178
Government547$34$16 – $60
Non-profit1,942$28$13 – $55
System affiliation
Part of a system2,375$31$14 – $63
Independent539$29$12 – $55

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$52
Median cash price$31
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

1,959 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $32 and the average of the middle 60% is $33; most fall between $15 and $61.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,959 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$18$32$54$90

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $90).

Of the 2,189 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,959 gave a usable cash price; 119 carried a plausibility flag, 11 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,914 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,206 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,914
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here162
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded11
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded119
Hospitals that filed this code3,206

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 HC Manual Diff.

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, “White blood cell type count read by hand (CPT 85007) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85007-white-blood-cell-type-count-read-by-hand