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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Spun hematocrit, red blood cell volume

CPT 85013the billing code this page is about

A small blood sample is spun in a tube to measure what fraction of the blood is made up of red blood cells.

Hospitals typically charge $22 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,156 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $24. Most fall between $11 and $45 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,156
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,156 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
$7$12$22$38$75

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $75).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 66 hospitals$5$7 – $10: 88 hospitals$10 – $14: 150 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 125 hospitals$19 – $27: 187 hospitals$19$27 – $38: 185 hospitals$38 – $53: 113 hospitals$38$53 – $74: 61 hospitals$74 – $103: 54 hospitals$74$103 – $144: 23 hospitals$103median $22price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,052 of 1,156 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$766
$7$1088
$10$14150
$14$19125
$19$27187
$27$38185
$38$53113
$53$7461
$74$10354
$103$14423

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $22.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $15 across 10 hospitalsME$15Vermont: 6 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 $24 across 34 hospitalsWA$24Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $30 across 15 hospitalsMN$30Illinois: median $32 across 51 hospitalsIL$32Wisconsin: median $21 across 54 hospitalsWI$21Michigan: median $18 across 15 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $12 across 52 hospitalsNY$12Massachusetts: median $21 across 18 hospitalsMA$21Oregon: median $26 across 30 hospitalsOR$26Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $34 across 21 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $17 across 32 hospitalsIN$17Ohio: median $30 across 33 hospitalsOH$30Pennsylvania: median $14 across 44 hospitalsPA$14New Jersey: median $8 across 31 hospitalsNJ$8Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $32 across 80 hospitalsCA$32Utah: median $144 across 25 hospitalsUT$144Colorado: median $34 across 40 hospitalsCO$34Nebraska: median $42 across 21 hospitalsNE$42Missouri: median $22 across 35 hospitalsMO$22Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $21 across 15 hospitalsWV$21Virginia: median $14 across 45 hospitalsVA$14Maryland: median $12 across 18 hospitalsMD$12Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $21 across 18 hospitalsAZ$21New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $14 across 16 hospitalsKS$14Arkansas: median $17 across 16 hospitalsAR$17Tennessee: median $11 across 44 hospitalsTN$11North Carolina: median $17 across 26 hospitalsNC$17South Carolina: median $24 across 17 hospitalsSC$24Oklahoma: median $24 across 31 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $12 across 13 hospitalsLA$12Mississippi: median $33 across 23 hospitalsMS$33Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $27 across 41 hospitalsGA$27Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $34 across 100 hospitalsTX$34Florida: median $22 across 13 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $22. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT25$144+560%$144 – $170
Nebraska NE21$42+90%$14 – $56
Colorado CO40$34+57%$14 – $92
Texas TX100$34+55%$6 – $75
Iowa IA21$34+54%$20 – $34
Mississippi MS23$33+53%$10 – $36
California CA80$32+49%$22 – $83
Illinois IL51$32+44%$19 – $56
Ohio OH33$30+39%$15 – $48
Minnesota MN15$30+37%$26 – $30
Georgia GA41$27+22%$21 – $50
Oregon OR30$26+19%$17 – $33
Washington WA34$24+11%$11 – $33
South Carolina SC17$24+10%$10 – $37
Oklahoma OK31$24+8%$16 – $34
Florida FL13$22+1%$10 – $79
Missouri MO35$22+1%$13 – $43
Wisconsin WI54$21−2%$11 – $30
Massachusetts MA18$21−4%$13 – $54
Arizona AZ18$21−5%$10 – $197
West Virginia WV15$21−5%$8 – $51
Michigan MI15$18−16%$10 – $21
Arkansas AR16$17−20%$8 – $21
North Carolina NC26$17−22%$13 – $43
Indiana IN32$17−22%$11 – $43
Maine ME10$15−31%$11 – $22
Pennsylvania PA44$14−36%$6 – $49
Kansas KS16$14−38%$7 – $50
Virginia VA45$14−38%$8 – $28
Louisiana LA13$12−43%$8 – $20
Maryland MD18$12−44%$11 – $16
New York NY52$12−45%$7 – $27
Tennessee TN44$11−52%$2 – $22
New Jersey NJ31$8−65%$7 – $8
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $22.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care909$22$10 – $47
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access227$22$12 – $42
Ownership
For-profit127$34$11 – $144
Government153$20$11 – $41
Non-profit873$22$10 – $42
System affiliation
Part of a system1,013$22$11 – $47
Independent143$24$9 – $45

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$41
Median cash price$22
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

779 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $25 and the average of the middle 60% is $26; most fall between $13 and $48.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 779 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$14$25$40$75

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $75).

Of the 832 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 779 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,156 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,217 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,156
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code1,217

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 September 4, 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 Hematocrit,Spun.

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, “Spun hematocrit, red blood cell volume (CPT 85013) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85013-spun-hematocrit-red-blood-cell-volume