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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Immature (reticulated) platelet blood test

CPT 85055the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the share of newly made platelets, used to assess how fast the bone marrow is producing them.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,269 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $73. Most fall between $36 and $136 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,269
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,269 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
$25$40$68$113$169

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $169).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 61 hospitals$19$25 – $32: 87 hospitals$32 – $41: 115 hospitals$32$41 – $53: 180 hospitals$53 – $68: 131 hospitals$53$68 – $88: 147 hospitals$88 – $113: 169 hospitals$88$113 – $146: 98 hospitals$146 – $188: 114 hospitals$146$188 – $243: 41 hospitals$188median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,143 of 1,269 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2561
$25$3287
$32$41115
$41$53180
$53$68131
$68$88147
$88$113169
$113$14698
$146$188114
$188$24341

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $68.

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: 7 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 $50 across 34 hospitalsWA$50Idaho: median $123 across 10 hospitalsID$123Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $55 across 29 hospitalsMN$55Illinois: median $75 across 33 hospitalsIL$75Wisconsin: median $109 across 60 hospitalsWI$109Michigan: median $56 across 51 hospitalsMI$56New York: median $36 across 39 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $102 across 17 hospitalsMA$102Oregon: median $55 across 26 hospitalsOR$55Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $96 across 42 hospitalsIA$96Indiana: median $49 across 27 hospitalsIN$49Ohio: median $75 across 70 hospitalsOH$75Pennsylvania: median $63 across 58 hospitalsPA$63New Jersey: median $39 across 38 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: 6 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 $136 across 64 hospitalsCA$136Utah: median $21 across 25 hospitalsUT$21Colorado: median $50 across 23 hospitalsCO$50Nebraska: median $70 across 27 hospitalsNE$70Missouri: median $57 across 42 hospitalsMO$57Kentucky: median $107 across 20 hospitalsKY$107West Virginia: median $71 across 12 hospitalsWV$71Virginia: median $203 across 17 hospitalsVA$203Maryland: median $20 across 17 hospitalsMD$20Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $59 across 16 hospitalsAZ$59New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $73 across 24 hospitalsKS$73Arkansas: median $23 across 22 hospitalsAR$23Tennessee: median $47 across 21 hospitalsTN$47North Carolina: median $71 across 27 hospitalsNC$71South Carolina: median $43 across 28 hospitalsSC$43Oklahoma: median $63 across 40 hospitalsOK$63Louisiana: median $44 across 22 hospitalsLA$44Mississippi: median $55 across 12 hospitalsMS$55Alabama: median $95 across 13 hospitalsAL$95Georgia: median $52 across 39 hospitalsGA$52Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $49 across 105 hospitalsTX$49Florida: median $72 across 45 hospitalsFL$72
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $68. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA17$203+199%$47 – $308
California CA64$136+101%$47 – $215
Idaho ID10$123+81%$77 – $275
Wisconsin WI60$109+61%$75 – $166
Kentucky KY20$107+58%$58 – $333
Massachusetts MA17$102+50%$70 – $143
Iowa IA42$96+41%$52 – $169
Alabama AL13$95+40%$51 – $100
Illinois IL33$75+11%$27 – $128
Ohio OH70$75+11%$51 – $161
Kansas KS24$73+8%$45 – $183
Florida FL45$72+6%$27 – $152
West Virginia WV12$71+5%$69 – $83
North Carolina NC27$71+4%$44 – $89
Nebraska NE27$70+3%$43 – $105
Pennsylvania PA58$63−7%$26 – $314
Oklahoma OK40$63−7%$54 – $91
Arizona AZ16$59−13%$44 – $168
Missouri MO42$57−16%$54 – $91
Michigan MI51$56−17%$38 – $128
Oregon OR26$55−19%$30 – $101
Minnesota MN29$55−19%$34 – $93
Mississippi MS12$55−19%$34 – $84
Georgia GA39$52−23%$22 – $95
Colorado CO23$50−26%$34 – $71
Washington WA34$50−27%$36 – $112
Texas TX105$49−27%$33 – $124
Indiana IN27$49−28%$38 – $76
Tennessee TN21$47−31%$29 – $53
Louisiana LA22$44−36%$33 – $94
South Carolina SC28$43−37%$31 – $159
New Jersey NJ38$39−42%$36 – $71
New York NY39$36−47%$28 – $107
Arkansas AR22$23−66%$23 – $46
Utah UT25$21−69%$18 – $21
Maryland MD17$20−71%$16 – $26
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $68.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,021$65$36 – $136
Children’s37$76$36 – $151
Critical access207$71$41 – $120
Ownership
For-profit126$80$34 – $168
Government167$69$39 – $100
Non-profit972$67$36 – $136
System affiliation
Part of a system1,129$67$36 – $136
Independent140$70$41 – $119

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$120
Median cash price$68
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

956 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $76; most fall between $38 and $138.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 956 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
$25$45$72$121$179

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $179).

Of the 1,042 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 956 gave a usable cash price; 57 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,269 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,381 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,269
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,381

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 Immature Platelet Fraction.

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, “Immature (reticulated) platelet blood test (CPT 85055) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85055-immature-reticulated-platelet-blood-test