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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Heinz bodies test on red blood cells

CPT 85441the billing code this page is about

A blood smear test looking for Heinz bodies, clumps of damaged hemoglobin inside red blood cells, examined without added chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $40 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 634 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $39. Most fall between $9 and $84 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
634
States
43
Filings dated
Dec 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 634 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$40$63$142

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $142).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 66 hospitals$4$6 – $9: 32 hospitals$9 – $14: 40 hospitals$9$14 – $21: 35 hospitals$21 – $31: 64 hospitals$21$31 – $47: 91 hospitals$47 – $70: 145 hospitals$47$70 – $105: 18 hospitals$105 – $157: 61 hospitals$105$157 – $234: 23 hospitals$157median $40price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (575 of 634 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$666
$6$932
$9$1440
$14$2135
$21$3164
$31$4791
$47$70145
$70$10518
$105$15761
$157$23423

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $40.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $60 across 20 hospitalsMN$60Illinois: median $25 across 33 hospitalsIL$25Wisconsin: median $38 across 12 hospitalsWI$38Michigan: median $23 across 18 hospitalsMI$23New York: median $5 across 27 hospitalsNY$5Massachusetts: median $73 across 13 hospitalsMA$73Oregon: median $42 across 15 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $31 across 12 hospitalsIA$31Indiana: median $10 across 20 hospitalsIN$10Ohio: median $50 across 45 hospitalsOH$50Pennsylvania: median $5 across 37 hospitalsPA$5New Jersey: median $5 across 29 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $52 across 52 hospitalsCA$52Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $123 across 16 hospitalsCO$123Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: median $49 across 14 hospitalsKY$49West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $36 across 22 hospitalsVA$36Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $43 across 27 hospitalsNC$43South Carolina: median $63 across 19 hospitalsSC$63Oklahoma: median $17 across 18 hospitalsOK$17Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $108 across 17 hospitalsGA$108Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $51 across 63 hospitalsTX$51Florida: median $21 across 29 hospitalsFL$21
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $40. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO16$123+210%$54 – $475
Georgia GA17$108+172%$66 – $108
Massachusetts MA13$73+84%$43 – $174
South Carolina SC19$63+59%$63 – $213
Minnesota MN20$60+52%$35 – $70
California CA52$52+32%$37 – $52
Texas TX63$51+28%$34 – $135
Ohio OH45$50+27%$23 – $51
Kentucky KY14$49+24%$28 – $49
North Carolina NC27$43+9%$43 – $142
Oregon OR15$42+5%$18 – $59
Wisconsin WI12$38−5%$38 – $72
Virginia VA22$36−10%$24 – $50
Iowa IA12$31−21%$31 – $31
Illinois IL33$25−37%$15 – $87
Michigan MI18$23−42%$6 – $167
Florida FL29$21−46%$4 – $271
Oklahoma OK18$17−57%$8 – $50
Indiana IN20$10−75%$7 – $30
New York NY27$5−87%$4 – $21
Pennsylvania PA37$5−88%$3 – $165
New Jersey NJ29$5−88%$4 – $5
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $40.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care565$38$8 – $84
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$38$11 – $59
Ownership
For-profit74$39$10 – $252
Government61$37$5 – $66
Non-profit495$40$9 – $68
System affiliation
Part of a system580$40$10 – $84
Independent54$23$6 – $71

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$75
Median cash price$40
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

442 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $44 and the average of the middle 60% is $45; most fall between $21 and $92.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 442 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$25$44$66$137

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $137).

Of the 476 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 442 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

634 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 676 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted634
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code676

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 Heinz Bodies; Direct.

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, “Heinz bodies test on red blood cells (CPT 85441) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85441-heinz-bodies-test-on-red-blood-cells