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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Manual blood cell count, each cell type counted

CPT 85032the billing code this page is about

A technologist counts one type of blood cell by hand under a microscope; the charge applies once for each cell type counted.

Hospitals typically charge $30 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 795 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $32. Most fall between $10 and $64 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
795
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 795 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$13$30$54$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $101).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 65 hospitals$4$6 – $9: 52 hospitals$9 – $14: 72 hospitals$9$14 – $21: 83 hospitals$21 – $31: 100 hospitals$21$31 – $46: 156 hospitals$46 – $68: 105 hospitals$46$68 – $101: 53 hospitals$101 – $151: 26 hospitals$101$151 – $224: 15 hospitals$151median $30price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (727 of 795 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$665
$6$952
$9$1472
$14$2183
$21$31100
$31$46156
$46$68105
$68$10153
$101$15126
$151$22415

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $30.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $44 across 35 hospitalsIL$44Wisconsin: median $37 across 12 hospitalsWI$37Michigan: median $10 across 15 hospitalsMI$10New York: median $13 across 41 hospitalsNY$13Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $34 across 19 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $22 across 29 hospitalsIN$22Ohio: median $20 across 55 hospitalsOH$20Pennsylvania: median $13 across 40 hospitalsPA$13New Jersey: median $5 across 43 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $46 across 72 hospitalsCA$46Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $106 across 13 hospitalsCO$106Nebraska: median $39 across 11 hospitalsNE$39Missouri: median $18 across 10 hospitalsMO$18Kentucky: median $23 across 10 hospitalsKY$23West Virginia: median $27 across 10 hospitalsWV$27Virginia: median $42 across 14 hospitalsVA$42Maryland: median $27 across 27 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $14 across 10 hospitalsAZ$14New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $22 across 17 hospitalsTN$22North Carolina: median $22 across 16 hospitalsNC$22South Carolina: median $68 across 10 hospitalsSC$68Oklahoma: median $8 across 22 hospitalsOK$8Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $22 across 24 hospitalsMS$22Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $53 across 24 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $44 across 87 hospitalsTX$44Florida: median $67 across 26 hospitalsFL$67
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $30. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO13$106+257%$51 – $487
South Carolina SC10$68+128%$15 – $68
Florida FL26$67+124%$18 – $1,034
Georgia GA24$53+77%$31 – $76
California CA72$46+55%$38 – $57
Texas TX87$44+49%$33 – $64
Illinois IL35$44+48%$18 – $68
Virginia VA14$42+40%$19 – $45
Nebraska NE11$39+33%$29 – $60
Wisconsin WI12$37+23%$20 – $54
Iowa IA19$34+13%$27 – $35
Maryland MD27$27−9%$20 – $31
West Virginia WV10$27−9%$17 – $36
Kentucky KY10$23−24%$10 – $26
Mississippi MS24$22−27%$12 – $42
Tennessee TN17$22−27%$8 – $49
Indiana IN29$22−27%$7 – $86
North Carolina NC16$22−27%$7 – $37
Ohio OH55$20−34%$10 – $68
Missouri MO10$18−39%$18 – $26
Arizona AZ10$14−53%$4 – $224
Pennsylvania PA40$13−56%$3 – $43
New York NY41$13−56%$4 – $50
Michigan MI15$10−67%$6 – $17
Oklahoma OK22$8−74%$8 – $39
New Jersey NJ43$5−84%$4 – $15
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $30.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care630$29$8 – $64
Children’s20$48$10 – $171
Critical access142$30$13 – $58
Ownership
For-profit115$48$11 – $303
Government99$30$10 – $53
Non-profit578$27$10 – $57
System affiliation
Part of a system668$30$10 – $64
Independent127$30$13 – $77

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$56
Median cash price$30
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

520 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $37 and the average of the middle 60% is $37; most fall between $16 and $64.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 520 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$20$37$57$88

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $88).

Of the 562 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 520 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

795 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 854 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted795
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code854

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 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 Hc Manual Cell Count,Each.

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, “Manual blood cell count, each cell type counted (CPT 85032) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85032-manual-blood-cell-count-each-cell-type-counted