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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Complete blood count without white cell types

CPT 85027the billing code this page is about

Machine-run blood test reporting red cells, white cells, hemoglobin, hematocrit and platelets, without breaking white cells into types.

Hospitals typically charge $48 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,351 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $50. Most fall between $21 and $93 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,351
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 3,351 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
$13$25$48$83$143

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $143).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $11: 102 hospitals$7$11 – $15: 177 hospitals$15 – $21: 276 hospitals$15$21 – $30: 360 hospitals$30 – $43: 455 hospitals$30$43 – $61: 541 hospitals$61 – $86: 499 hospitals$61$86 – $122: 388 hospitals$122 – $173: 149 hospitals$122$173 – $245: 94 hospitals$173median $48price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,041 of 3,351 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$11102
$11$15177
$15$21276
$21$30360
$30$43455
$43$61541
$61$86499
$86$122388
$122$173149
$173$24594

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $48.

Alaska: median $96 across 19 hospitalsAK$96Maine: median $32 across 27 hospitalsME$32Vermont: median $54 across 13 hospitalsVT$54New Hampshire: median $41 across 25 hospitalsNH$41Washington: median $46 across 77 hospitalsWA$46Idaho: median $30 across 23 hospitalsID$30Montana: median $44 across 34 hospitalsMT$44North Dakota: median $47 across 32 hospitalsND$47Minnesota: median $48 across 106 hospitalsMN$48Illinois: median $65 across 141 hospitalsIL$65Wisconsin: median $61 across 108 hospitalsWI$61Michigan: median $29 across 101 hospitalsMI$29New York: median $28 across 119 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: median $48 across 53 hospitalsMA$48Oregon: median $32 across 51 hospitalsOR$32Nevada: median $60 across 21 hospitalsNV$60Wyoming: median $46 across 15 hospitalsWY$46South Dakota: median $108 across 41 hospitalsSD$108Iowa: median $46 across 89 hospitalsIA$46Indiana: median $28 across 95 hospitalsIN$28Ohio: median $34 across 142 hospitalsOH$34Pennsylvania: median $32 across 122 hospitalsPA$32New Jersey: median $7 across 57 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $28 across 23 hospitalsCT$28Rhode Island: median $44 across 10 hospitalsRI$44California: median $90 across 164 hospitalsCA$90Utah: median $52 across 40 hospitalsUT$52Colorado: median $61 across 68 hospitalsCO$61Nebraska: median $76 across 83 hospitalsNE$76Missouri: median $45 across 76 hospitalsMO$45Kentucky: median $55 across 67 hospitalsKY$55West Virginia: median $36 across 39 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $70 across 73 hospitalsVA$70Maryland: median $21 across 40 hospitalsMD$21Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $66 across 41 hospitalsAZ$66New Mexico: median $53 across 28 hospitalsNM$53Kansas: median $41 across 94 hospitalsKS$41Arkansas: median $21 across 39 hospitalsAR$21Tennessee: median $22 across 83 hospitalsTN$22North Carolina: median $55 across 88 hospitalsNC$55South Carolina: median $58 across 53 hospitalsSC$58Oklahoma: median $47 across 72 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: median $26 across 51 hospitalsLA$26Mississippi: median $27 across 52 hospitalsMS$27Alabama: median $42 across 44 hospitalsAL$42Georgia: median $56 across 105 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $53 across 21 hospitalsHI$53Texas: median $94 across 228 hospitalsTX$94Florida: median $126 across 151 hospitalsFL$126
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $48. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL151$126+163%$19 – $705
South Dakota SD41$108+125%$74 – $171
Alaska AK19$96+99%$20 – $145
Texas TX228$94+95%$42 – $224
California CA164$90+87%$30 – $178
Nebraska NE83$76+58%$46 – $97
Virginia VA73$70+45%$25 – $125
Arizona AZ41$66+37%$14 – $202
Illinois IL141$65+36%$34 – $102
Colorado CO68$61+28%$31 – $92
Wisconsin WI108$61+27%$36 – $80
Nevada NV21$60+24%$34 – $87
South Carolina SC53$58+21%$36 – $87
Georgia GA105$56+18%$17 – $96
Kentucky KY67$55+15%$27 – $78
North Carolina NC88$55+15%$31 – $74
Vermont VT13$54+12%$23 – $71
Hawaii HI21$53+9%$31 – $71
New Mexico NM28$53+9%$33 – $85
Utah UT40$52+7%$44 – $74
Massachusetts MA53$480%$23 – $81
Minnesota MN106$48−1%$20 – $104
North Dakota ND32$47−2%$39 – $61
Oklahoma OK72$47−3%$21 – $72
Iowa IA89$46−4%$27 – $71
Washington WA77$46−4%$31 – $64
Wyoming WY15$46−5%$18 – $77
Missouri MO76$45−7%$21 – $87
Montana MT34$44−8%$35 – $62
Rhode Island RI10$44−8%$14 – $48
Alabama AL44$42−12%$20 – $96
Kansas KS94$41−15%$22 – $65
New Hampshire NH25$41−16%$30 – $81
West Virginia WV39$36−24%$29 – $64
Ohio OH142$34−30%$22 – $67
Maine ME27$32−33%$24 – $77
Pennsylvania PA122$32−33%$10 – $80
Oregon OR51$32−33%$13 – $56
Idaho ID23$30−37%$26 – $59
Michigan MI101$29−40%$18 – $44
Connecticut CT23$28−42%$20 – $39
Indiana IN95$28−42%$13 – $67
New York NY119$28−42%$10 – $72
Mississippi MS52$27−43%$13 – $42
Louisiana LA51$26−45%$12 – $71
Tennessee TN83$22−55%$13 – $54
Maryland MD40$21−56%$16 – $26
Arkansas AR39$21−56%$14 – $33
New Jersey NJ57$7−84%$7 – $22
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 $48.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,316$46$19 – $99
Children’s63$76$31 – $125
Critical access962$50$27 – $83
Ownership
For-profit475$75$27 – $312
Government618$50$23 – $83
Non-profit2,248$44$20 – $87
System affiliation
Part of a system2,711$48$20 – $94
Independent640$48$23 – $87

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$82
Median cash price$48
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

2,251 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $50 and the average of the middle 60% is $52; most fall between $23 and $92.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,251 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
$14$28$50$83$132

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $132).

Of the 2,492 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,251 gave a usable cash price; 130 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,351 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,660 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,351
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here176
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,660

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 Cbc,Automated.

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, “Complete blood count without white cell types (CPT 85027) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85027-complete-blood-count-without-white-cell-types