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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Hematocrit blood test

CPT 85014the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test measuring the proportion of blood volume made up of red blood cells.

Hospitals typically charge $23 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,386 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $24. Most fall between $9 and $47 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,386
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,386 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
$5$11$23$40$69

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $69).

How the prices are spread

$3 – $4: 137 hospitals$3$4 – $6: 148 hospitals$6 – $8: 178 hospitals$6$8 – $12: 299 hospitals$12 – $17: 405 hospitals$12$17 – $25: 468 hospitals$25 – $35: 536 hospitals$25$35 – $51: 439 hospitals$51 – $73: 293 hospitals$51$73 – $104: 153 hospitals$73median $23price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,056 of 3,386 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3$4137
$4$6148
$6$8178
$8$12299
$12$17405
$17$25468
$25$35536
$35$51439
$51$73293
$73$104153

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $23.

Alaska: median $39 across 19 hospitalsAK$39Maine: median $17 across 28 hospitalsME$17Vermont: median $28 across 14 hospitalsVT$28New Hampshire: median $19 across 25 hospitalsNH$19Washington: median $27 across 76 hospitalsWA$27Idaho: median $15 across 24 hospitalsID$15Montana: median $27 across 34 hospitalsMT$27North Dakota: median $21 across 34 hospitalsND$21Minnesota: median $31 across 105 hospitalsMN$31Illinois: median $31 across 141 hospitalsIL$31Wisconsin: median $22 across 108 hospitalsWI$22Michigan: median $14 across 101 hospitalsMI$14New York: median $9 across 119 hospitalsNY$9Massachusetts: median $20 across 53 hospitalsMA$20Oregon: median $17 across 50 hospitalsOR$17Nevada: median $21 across 22 hospitalsNV$21Wyoming: median $30 across 16 hospitalsWY$30South Dakota: median $59 across 41 hospitalsSD$59Iowa: median $30 across 90 hospitalsIA$30Indiana: median $15 across 94 hospitalsIN$15Ohio: median $16 across 143 hospitalsOH$16Pennsylvania: median $16 across 122 hospitalsPA$16New Jersey: median $3 across 57 hospitalsNJ$3Connecticut: median $13 across 23 hospitalsCT$13Rhode Island: median $21 across 10 hospitalsRI$21California: median $51 across 158 hospitalsCA$51Utah: median $36 across 42 hospitalsUT$36Colorado: median $28 across 71 hospitalsCO$28Nebraska: median $37 across 82 hospitalsNE$37Missouri: median $19 across 77 hospitalsMO$19Kentucky: median $27 across 68 hospitalsKY$27West Virginia: median $13 across 42 hospitalsWV$13Virginia: median $28 across 73 hospitalsVA$28Maryland: median $11 across 41 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $12 across 42 hospitalsAZ$12New Mexico: median $31 across 29 hospitalsNM$31Kansas: median $20 across 93 hospitalsKS$20Arkansas: median $11 across 39 hospitalsAR$11Tennessee: median $16 across 83 hospitalsTN$16North Carolina: median $20 across 91 hospitalsNC$20South Carolina: median $36 across 53 hospitalsSC$36Oklahoma: median $18 across 71 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: median $11 across 54 hospitalsLA$11Mississippi: median $17 across 54 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: median $19 across 44 hospitalsAL$19Georgia: median $23 across 105 hospitalsGA$23Hawaii: median $24 across 19 hospitalsHI$24Texas: median $46 across 246 hospitalsTX$46Florida: median $38 across 153 hospitalsFL$38
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $23. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$59+160%$46 – $89
California CA158$51+126%$4 – $98
Texas TX246$46+102%$18 – $78
Alaska AK19$39+72%$24 – $69
Florida FL153$38+67%$5 – $183
Nebraska NE82$37+63%$20 – $54
Utah UT42$36+59%$31 – $54
South Carolina SC53$36+57%$21 – $43
Minnesota MN105$31+38%$10 – $47
Illinois IL141$31+36%$15 – $56
New Mexico NM29$31+35%$15 – $42
Wyoming WY16$30+33%$5 – $54
Iowa IA90$30+32%$16 – $37
Virginia VA73$28+24%$13 – $71
Vermont VT14$28+24%$18 – $42
Colorado CO71$28+23%$15 – $55
Kentucky KY68$27+21%$10 – $53
Washington WA76$27+20%$12 – $38
Montana MT34$27+18%$15 – $43
Hawaii HI19$24+6%$8 – $40
Georgia GA105$230%$9 – $35
Wisconsin WI108$22−3%$13 – $40
North Dakota ND34$21−8%$16 – $34
Nevada NV22$21−8%$8 – $42
Rhode Island RI10$21−8%$9 – $31
North Carolina NC91$20−12%$6 – $38
Kansas KS93$20−13%$12 – $28
Massachusetts MA53$20−14%$9 – $32
Missouri MO77$19−15%$13 – $39
Alabama AL44$19−15%$9 – $48
New Hampshire NH25$19−18%$11 – $31
Oklahoma OK71$18−19%$9 – $36
Oregon OR50$17−23%$10 – $27
Mississippi MS54$17−24%$9 – $34
Maine ME28$17−27%$7 – $31
Tennessee TN83$16−29%$4 – $37
Ohio OH143$16−29%$8 – $32
Pennsylvania PA122$16−29%$4 – $35
Idaho ID24$15−34%$11 – $31
Indiana IN94$15−34%$6 – $32
Michigan MI101$14−38%$9 – $22
West Virginia WV42$13−43%$5 – $26
Connecticut CT23$13−45%$9 – $20
Arizona AZ42$12−49%$4 – $38
Louisiana LA54$11−52%$5 – $26
Maryland MD41$11−52%$8 – $13
Arkansas AR39$11−53%$6 – $29
New York NY119$9−60%$4 – $39
New Jersey NJ57$3−88%$3 – $8
Delaware DE7not 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 $23.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,324$21$7 – $50
Children’s69$21$12 – $45
Critical access983$25$11 – $43
Ownership
For-profit479$35$10 – $139
Government636$23$10 – $41
Non-profit2,261$21$8 – $43
System affiliation
Part of a system2,735$23$8 – $49
Independent651$20$10 – $39

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$39
Median cash price$23
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

2,280 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $23 and the average of the middle 60% is $25; most fall between $9 and $47.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,280 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
$5$12$23$41$63

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $63).

Of the 2,529 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,280 gave a usable cash price; 135 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 114 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,386 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,698 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,386
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here175
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded136
Hospitals that filed this code3,698

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 Hematocrit.

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, “Hematocrit blood test (CPT 85014) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85014-hematocrit-blood-test