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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Heinz bodies test using a chemical trigger

CPT 85445the billing code this page is about

A blood test in which red cells are exposed to a chemical to bring out Heinz bodies, clumps of damaged hemoglobin, which are then counted on a smear.

Hospitals typically charge $37 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 398 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $43. Most fall between $10 and $79 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
398
States
38
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – 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 398 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
$7$13$37$76$114

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $114).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 59 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 26 hospitals$11 – $15: 25 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 24 hospitals$21 – $29: 21 hospitals$21$29 – $40: 33 hospitals$40 – $55: 10 hospitals$40$55 – $75: 89 hospitals$75 – $103: 49 hospitals$75$103 – $142: 32 hospitals$103median $37price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (368 of 398 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$859
$8$1126
$11$1525
$15$2124
$21$2921
$29$4033
$40$5510
$55$7589
$75$10349
$103$14232

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $37.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $30 across 22 hospitalsIL$30Wisconsin: median $25 across 17 hospitalsWI$25Michigan: median $9 across 10 hospitalsMI$9New York: median $7 across 20 hospitalsNY$7Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $11 across 16 hospitalsIN$11Ohio: median $60 across 26 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $6 across 19 hospitalsPA$6New Jersey: median $8 across 24 hospitalsNJ$8Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $69 across 39 hospitalsCA$69Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $60 across 10 hospitalsCO$60Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: median $79 across 11 hospitalsKY$79West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $63 across 15 hospitalsSC$63Oklahoma: median $13 across 16 hospitalsOK$13Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $92 across 10 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $78 across 39 hospitalsTX$78Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $37. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$92+147%$84 – $92
Kentucky KY11$79+113%$60 – $79
Texas TX39$78+110%$62 – $114
California CA39$69+87%$61 – $69
South Carolina SC15$63+69%$18 – $63
Colorado CO10$60+61%$51 – $342
Ohio OH26$60+61%$59 – $76
Iowa IA12$31−16%$31 – $31
Illinois IL22$30−19%$11 – $159
Wisconsin WI17$25−33%$25 – $25
Oklahoma OK16$13−66%$13 – $115
Indiana IN16$11−70%$10 – $79
Michigan MI10$9−75%$8 – $19
New Jersey NJ24$8−80%$7 – $8
New York NY20$7−82%$7 – $11
Pennsylvania PA19$6−84%$4 – $10
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $37.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care355$37$9 – $79
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access32$25$14 – $62
Ownership
For-profit31$20$10 – $78
Government35$21$7 – $92
Non-profit330$54$10 – $79
System affiliation
Part of a system362$51$10 – $78
Independent36$20$8 – $105

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$89
Median cash price$37
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

259 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $60 and the average of the middle 60% is $55; most fall between $24 and $79.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 259 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
$13$25$60$78$114

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $114).

Of the 284 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 259 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

398 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 435 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted398
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code435

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 Induced Acetyl Phenylhydrazine.

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 using a chemical trigger (CPT 85445) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85445-heinz-bodies-test-using-a-chemical-trigger