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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Automated reticulocyte count

CPT 85045the billing code this page is about

Machine-run count of young red blood cells in the blood, used to assess how fast the marrow is making red cells.

Hospitals typically charge $39 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,749 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $42. Most fall between $16 and $82 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,749
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 2,749 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
$10$20$39$70$118

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $118).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 81 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 118 hospitals$11 – $16: 194 hospitals$11$16 – $23: 280 hospitals$23 – $33: 309 hospitals$23$33 – $47: 479 hospitals$47 – $67: 416 hospitals$47$67 – $95: 315 hospitals$95 – $136: 202 hospitals$95$136 – $194: 82 hospitals$136median $39price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,476 of 2,749 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$881
$8$11118
$11$16194
$16$23280
$23$33309
$33$47479
$47$67416
$67$95315
$95$136202
$136$19482

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $39.

Alaska: median $70 across 14 hospitalsAK$70Maine: median $37 across 26 hospitalsME$37Vermont: median $56 across 12 hospitalsVT$56New Hampshire: median $43 across 12 hospitalsNH$43Washington: median $45 across 65 hospitalsWA$45Idaho: median $38 across 22 hospitalsID$38Montana: median $49 across 11 hospitalsMT$49North Dakota: median $43 across 24 hospitalsND$43Minnesota: median $40 across 97 hospitalsMN$40Illinois: median $55 across 109 hospitalsIL$55Wisconsin: median $40 across 76 hospitalsWI$40Michigan: median $23 across 41 hospitalsMI$23New York: median $16 across 112 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: median $32 across 48 hospitalsMA$32Oregon: median $44 across 42 hospitalsOR$44Nevada: median $38 across 20 hospitalsNV$38Wyoming: median $66 across 10 hospitalsWY$66South Dakota: median $90 across 37 hospitalsSD$90Iowa: median $39 across 58 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: median $21 across 73 hospitalsIN$21Ohio: median $33 across 132 hospitalsOH$33Pennsylvania: median $28 across 100 hospitalsPA$28New Jersey: median $5 across 47 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $23 across 20 hospitalsCT$23Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $82 across 138 hospitalsCA$82Utah: median $35 across 39 hospitalsUT$35Colorado: median $46 across 59 hospitalsCO$46Nebraska: median $48 across 55 hospitalsNE$48Missouri: median $33 across 65 hospitalsMO$33Kentucky: median $39 across 63 hospitalsKY$39West Virginia: median $34 across 32 hospitalsWV$34Virginia: median $39 across 53 hospitalsVA$39Maryland: median $27 across 37 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $42 across 35 hospitalsAZ$42New Mexico: median $54 across 16 hospitalsNM$54Kansas: median $86 across 79 hospitalsKS$86Arkansas: median $25 across 22 hospitalsAR$25Tennessee: median $19 across 75 hospitalsTN$19North Carolina: median $33 across 78 hospitalsNC$33South Carolina: median $42 across 42 hospitalsSC$42Oklahoma: median $23 across 68 hospitalsOK$23Louisiana: median $18 across 48 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $32 across 47 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: median $39 across 33 hospitalsAL$39Georgia: median $35 across 90 hospitalsGA$35Hawaii: median $28 across 21 hospitalsHI$28Texas: median $64 across 213 hospitalsTX$64Florida: median $125 across 118 hospitalsFL$125
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $39. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL118$125+221%$16 – $356
South Dakota SD37$90+131%$58 – $119
Kansas KS79$86+119%$40 – $124
California CA138$82+111%$22 – $125
Alaska AK14$70+79%$41 – $231
Wyoming WY10$66+68%$50 – $127
Texas TX213$64+63%$22 – $116
Vermont VT12$56+44%$38 – $86
Illinois IL109$55+41%$29 – $99
New Mexico NM16$54+38%$46 – $78
Montana MT11$49+25%$26 – $80
Nebraska NE55$48+23%$27 – $85
Colorado CO59$46+17%$27 – $94
Washington WA65$45+16%$20 – $66
Oregon OR42$44+13%$23 – $54
North Dakota ND24$43+11%$32 – $52
New Hampshire NH12$43+10%$24 – $107
Arizona AZ35$42+7%$11 – $158
South Carolina SC42$42+7%$33 – $63
Minnesota MN97$40+2%$23 – $55
Wisconsin WI76$40+2%$23 – $55
Alabama AL33$39+1%$18 – $118
Iowa IA58$390%$32 – $56
Kentucky KY63$390%$22 – $47
Virginia VA53$39−1%$18 – $64
Idaho ID22$38−3%$18 – $62
Nevada NV20$38−3%$16 – $95
Maine ME26$37−5%$20 – $96
Georgia GA90$35−9%$16 – $70
Utah UT39$35−11%$30 – $85
West Virginia WV32$34−13%$19 – $44
Ohio OH132$33−14%$18 – $50
Missouri MO65$33−14%$17 – $60
North Carolina NC78$33−16%$18 – $64
Mississippi MS47$32−19%$13 – $52
Massachusetts MA48$32−19%$15 – $62
Hawaii HI21$28−28%$20 – $37
Pennsylvania PA100$28−28%$5 – $76
Maryland MD37$27−30%$21 – $33
Arkansas AR22$25−37%$13 – $42
Oklahoma OK68$23−40%$14 – $48
Michigan MI41$23−42%$7 – $41
Connecticut CT20$23−42%$16 – $44
Indiana IN73$21−47%$10 – $50
Tennessee TN75$19−50%$8 – $50
Louisiana LA48$18−54%$7 – $47
New York NY112$16−59%$8 – $59
New Jersey NJ47$5−88%$4 – $25
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $39.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,937$36$14 – $82
Children’s56$47$30 – $92
Critical access747$44$21 – $76
Ownership
For-profit380$60$19 – $206
Government497$41$19 – $74
Non-profit1,863$37$16 – $72
System affiliation
Part of a system2,226$39$16 – $82
Independent523$41$18 – $76

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$66
Median cash price$39
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

1,861 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $40 and the average of the middle 60% is $42; most fall between $18 and $81.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,861 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
$11$22$40$68$110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $110).

Of the 2,048 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,861 gave a usable cash price; 95 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,749 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,992 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,749
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here136
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code2,992

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 Reticulocyte Count; Auto.

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, “Automated reticulocyte count (CPT 85045) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85045-automated-reticulocyte-count