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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Sedimentation rate, automated

CPT 85652the billing code this page is about

The same red blood cell settling test used as a general marker of inflammation, performed on an automated analyzer.

Hospitals typically charge $34 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,861 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $35. Most fall between $12 and $68 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,861
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,861 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
$6$15$34$59$105

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $105).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 101 hospitals$4$6 – $8: 144 hospitals$8 – $12: 183 hospitals$8$12 – $18: 286 hospitals$18 – $27: 329 hospitals$18$27 – $40: 448 hospitals$40 – $59: 506 hospitals$40$59 – $87: 333 hospitals$87 – $129: 175 hospitals$87$129 – $191: 70 hospitals$129median $34price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,575 of 2,861 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$6101
$6$8144
$8$12183
$12$18286
$18$27329
$27$40448
$40$59506
$59$87333
$87$129175
$129$19170

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $34.

Alaska: median $62 across 12 hospitalsAK$62Maine: median $30 across 23 hospitalsME$30Vermont: median $42 across 12 hospitalsVT$42New Hampshire: median $26 across 22 hospitalsNH$26Washington: median $34 across 72 hospitalsWA$34Idaho: median $15 across 22 hospitalsID$15Montana: median $35 across 23 hospitalsMT$35North Dakota: median $31 across 21 hospitalsND$31Minnesota: median $35 across 101 hospitalsMN$35Illinois: median $52 across 124 hospitalsIL$52Wisconsin: median $38 across 101 hospitalsWI$38Michigan: median $16 across 90 hospitalsMI$16New York: median $10 across 99 hospitalsNY$10Massachusetts: median $25 across 48 hospitalsMA$25Oregon: median $28 across 45 hospitalsOR$28Nevada: median $46 across 18 hospitalsNV$46Wyoming: median $32 across 14 hospitalsWY$32South Dakota: median $87 across 32 hospitalsSD$87Iowa: median $34 across 73 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $35 across 92 hospitalsIN$35Ohio: median $34 across 124 hospitalsOH$34Pennsylvania: median $20 across 107 hospitalsPA$20New Jersey: median $3 across 51 hospitalsNJ$3Connecticut: median $15 across 19 hospitalsCT$15Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $56 across 135 hospitalsCA$56Utah: median $49 across 37 hospitalsUT$49Colorado: median $45 across 60 hospitalsCO$45Nebraska: median $50 across 62 hospitalsNE$50Missouri: median $22 across 59 hospitalsMO$22Kentucky: median $36 across 64 hospitalsKY$36West Virginia: median $18 across 35 hospitalsWV$18Virginia: median $36 across 71 hospitalsVA$36Maryland: median $12 across 32 hospitalsMD$12Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $58 across 37 hospitalsAZ$58New Mexico: median $60 across 27 hospitalsNM$60Kansas: median $23 across 66 hospitalsKS$23Arkansas: median $12 across 33 hospitalsAR$12Tennessee: median $14 across 70 hospitalsTN$14North Carolina: median $41 across 75 hospitalsNC$41South Carolina: median $41 across 48 hospitalsSC$41Oklahoma: median $21 across 62 hospitalsOK$21Louisiana: median $12 across 42 hospitalsLA$12Mississippi: median $24 across 44 hospitalsMS$24Alabama: median $17 across 28 hospitalsAL$17Georgia: median $33 across 79 hospitalsGA$33Hawaii: median $26 across 11 hospitalsHI$26Texas: median $61 across 201 hospitalsTX$61Florida: median $91 across 126 hospitalsFL$91
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $34. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL126$91+171%$12 – $699
South Dakota SD32$87+160%$59 – $149
Alaska AK12$62+84%$45 – $81
Texas TX201$61+82%$21 – $131
New Mexico NM27$60+78%$27 – $76
Arizona AZ37$58+72%$6 – $343
California CA135$56+67%$16 – $101
Illinois IL124$52+54%$23 – $92
Nebraska NE62$50+49%$22 – $65
Utah UT37$49+45%$41 – $59
Nevada NV18$46+36%$14 – $141
Colorado CO60$45+33%$21 – $104
Vermont VT12$42+25%$21 – $54
North Carolina NC75$41+23%$16 – $81
South Carolina SC48$41+23%$27 – $105
Wisconsin WI101$38+13%$22 – $48
Kentucky KY64$36+7%$10 – $68
Virginia VA71$36+6%$14 – $90
Montana MT23$35+5%$13 – $49
Indiana IN92$35+4%$8 – $76
Minnesota MN101$35+4%$19 – $45
Ohio OH124$34+2%$12 – $48
Washington WA72$34+1%$15 – $57
Iowa IA73$340%$25 – $49
Georgia GA79$33−1%$14 – $78
Wyoming WY14$32−6%$6 – $66
North Dakota ND21$31−7%$18 – $38
Maine ME23$30−11%$15 – $99
Oregon OR45$28−16%$17 – $37
New Hampshire NH22$26−23%$23 – $64
Hawaii HI11$26−24%$14 – $48
Massachusetts MA48$25−25%$9 – $46
Mississippi MS44$24−28%$9 – $57
Kansas KS66$23−31%$16 – $44
Missouri MO59$22−34%$12 – $44
Oklahoma OK62$21−38%$7 – $44
Pennsylvania PA107$20−40%$5 – $57
West Virginia WV35$18−46%$12 – $41
Alabama AL28$17−49%$9 – $55
Michigan MI90$16−52%$9 – $32
Connecticut CT19$15−54%$10 – $30
Idaho ID22$15−55%$12 – $41
Tennessee TN70$14−57%$5 – $43
Arkansas AR33$12−63%$7 – $25
Maryland MD32$12−63%$9 – $16
Louisiana LA42$12−64%$5 – $45
New York NY99$10−71%$3 – $38
New Jersey NJ51$3−91%$3 – $9
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $34.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,020$33$10 – $75
Children’s56$43$22 – $89
Critical access776$36$17 – $63
Ownership
For-profit385$49$12 – $301
Government466$36$15 – $64
Non-profit2,001$32$12 – $61
System affiliation
Part of a system2,387$34$12 – $70
Independent474$33$14 – $64

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$56
Median cash price$34
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

1,959 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $36 and the average of the middle 60% is $37; most fall between $14 and $72.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,959 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
$8$16$36$61$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $101).

Of the 2,160 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,959 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,861 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,107 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,861
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here145
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded100
Hospitals that filed this code3,107

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 RBC SED RATE AUTOMATED.

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, “Sedimentation rate, automated (CPT 85652) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85652-sedimentation-rate-automated