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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Doctor's review of a blood smear with written report

CPT 85060the billing code this page is about

A physician examines a slide of blood under the microscope and issues a written interpretation; this code covers the review and report only, not the machine blood count.

Hospitals typically charge $67 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $68. Most fall between $35 and $116 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,296
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,296 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
$23$40$67$100$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $164).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $21: 43 hospitals$16$21 – $27: 71 hospitals$27 – $36: 89 hospitals$27$36 – $46: 150 hospitals$46 – $60: 155 hospitals$46$60 – $78: 246 hospitals$78 – $102: 158 hospitals$78$102 – $132: 128 hospitals$132 – $172: 75 hospitals$132$172 – $223: 54 hospitals$172median $67price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,169 of 1,296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2143
$21$2771
$27$3689
$36$46150
$46$60155
$60$78246
$78$102158
$102$132128
$132$17275
$172$22354

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $67.

Alaska: median $88 across 13 hospitalsAK$88Maine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 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 $63 across 43 hospitalsWA$63Idaho: median $90 across 16 hospitalsID$90Montana: median $80 across 15 hospitalsMT$80North Dakota: median $59 across 14 hospitalsND$59Minnesota: median $117 across 52 hospitalsMN$117Illinois: median $77 across 62 hospitalsIL$77Wisconsin: median $112 across 52 hospitalsWI$112Michigan: median $38 across 36 hospitalsMI$38New York: median $53 across 58 hospitalsNY$53Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $68 across 31 hospitalsOR$68Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $60 across 60 hospitalsIA$60Indiana: median $35 across 28 hospitalsIN$35Ohio: median $105 across 44 hospitalsOH$105Pennsylvania: median $55 across 47 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $203 across 17 hospitalsNJ$203Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $72 across 73 hospitalsCA$72Utah: median $59 across 12 hospitalsUT$59Colorado: median $83 across 26 hospitalsCO$83Nebraska: median $62 across 50 hospitalsNE$62Missouri: median $63 across 25 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $42 across 11 hospitalsKY$42West Virginia: median $34 across 22 hospitalsWV$34Virginia: median $91 across 12 hospitalsVA$91Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $107 across 13 hospitalsAZ$107New Mexico: median $62 across 17 hospitalsNM$62Kansas: median $100 across 35 hospitalsKS$100Arkansas: median $35 across 12 hospitalsAR$35Tennessee: median $46 across 16 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: median $58 across 20 hospitalsNC$58South Carolina: median $50 across 34 hospitalsSC$50Oklahoma: median $39 across 39 hospitalsOK$39Louisiana: median $86 across 16 hospitalsLA$86Mississippi: median $38 across 19 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: median $38 across 20 hospitalsAL$38Georgia: median $41 across 45 hospitalsGA$41Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $71 across 87 hospitalsTX$71Florida: median $141 across 37 hospitalsFL$141
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $67. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ17$203+204%$94 – $310
Florida FL37$141+110%$33 – $148
Minnesota MN52$117+75%$75 – $182
Wisconsin WI52$112+68%$64 – $126
Arizona AZ13$107+59%$36 – $122
Ohio OH44$105+57%$41 – $253
Kansas KS35$100+50%$67 – $132
Virginia VA12$91+35%$53 – $109
Idaho ID16$90+34%$61 – $158
Alaska AK13$88+31%$44 – $167
Louisiana LA16$86+29%$33 – $144
Colorado CO26$83+23%$41 – $148
Montana MT15$80+19%$62 – $192
Illinois IL62$77+14%$39 – $128
California CA73$72+7%$45 – $79
Texas TX87$71+5%$56 – $78
Oregon OR31$68+1%$43 – $86
Washington WA43$63−6%$41 – $96
Missouri MO25$63−6%$28 – $78
Nebraska NE50$62−7%$42 – $95
New Mexico NM17$62−8%$54 – $112
Iowa IA60$60−10%$46 – $81
Utah UT12$59−11%$46 – $112
North Dakota ND14$59−13%$52 – $148
North Carolina NC20$58−14%$20 – $93
Pennsylvania PA47$55−18%$16 – $92
New York NY58$53−21%$26 – $92
South Carolina SC34$50−25%$30 – $65
Tennessee TN16$46−31%$29 – $86
Kentucky KY11$42−38%$26 – $83
Georgia GA45$41−38%$24 – $87
Oklahoma OK39$39−41%$33 – $78
Mississippi MS19$38−43%$22 – $70
Alabama AL20$38−44%$15 – $84
Michigan MI36$38−44%$13 – $68
Arkansas AR12$35−47%$14 – $58
Indiana IN28$35−47%$28 – $61
West Virginia WV22$34−49%$22 – $171
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $67.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care792$64$31 – $107
Children’s26$103$52 – $199
Critical access476$72$39 – $121
Ownership
For-profit114$64$24 – $131
Government303$61$33 – $106
Non-profit877$69$37 – $117
System affiliation
Part of a system980$68$36 – $116
Independent316$65$33 – $120

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$101
Median cash price$67
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

823 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $68 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $39 and $116.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 823 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$42$68$94$158

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $158).

Of the 905 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 823 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,296 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,431 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded86
Hospitals that filed this code1,431

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 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 Blood Smear Peripheral Interp Phys W/Writ Report.

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, “Doctor's review of a blood smear with written report (CPT 85060) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85060-doctor-s-review-of-a-blood-smear-with-written-report