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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Sickle cell solubility screening test

CPT 85660the billing code this page is about

A blood test that checks whether red blood cells sickle when oxygen is reduced, used to screen for sickle hemoglobin.

Hospitals typically charge $39 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,118 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $41. Most fall between $17 and $77 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,118
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 3,118 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$20$39$67$112

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $112).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 109 hospitals$6$8 – $12: 171 hospitals$12 – $17: 190 hospitals$12$17 – $23: 287 hospitals$23 – $32: 409 hospitals$23$32 – $45: 436 hospitals$45 – $63: 473 hospitals$45$63 – $88: 386 hospitals$88 – $122: 247 hospitals$88$122 – $171: 105 hospitals$122median $39price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,813 of 3,118 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8109
$8$12171
$12$17190
$17$23287
$23$32409
$32$45436
$45$63473
$63$88386
$88$122247
$122$171105

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $39.

Alaska: median $64 across 16 hospitalsAK$64Maine: median $41 across 28 hospitalsME$41Vermont: median $68 across 14 hospitalsVT$68New Hampshire: median $34 across 22 hospitalsNH$34Washington: median $39 across 67 hospitalsWA$39Idaho: median $28 across 20 hospitalsID$28Montana: median $40 across 19 hospitalsMT$40North Dakota: median $33 across 26 hospitalsND$33Minnesota: median $43 across 98 hospitalsMN$43Illinois: median $59 across 135 hospitalsIL$59Wisconsin: median $45 across 101 hospitalsWI$45Michigan: median $26 across 94 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $24 across 105 hospitalsNY$24Massachusetts: median $34 across 50 hospitalsMA$34Oregon: median $38 across 43 hospitalsOR$38Nevada: median $29 across 20 hospitalsNV$29Wyoming: median $40 across 15 hospitalsWY$40South Dakota: median $64 across 20 hospitalsSD$64Iowa: median $43 across 83 hospitalsIA$43Indiana: median $27 across 93 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: median $38 across 135 hospitalsOH$38Pennsylvania: median $29 across 118 hospitalsPA$29New Jersey: median $6 across 57 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $28 across 23 hospitalsCT$28Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $22 across 145 hospitalsCA$22Utah: median $56 across 36 hospitalsUT$56Colorado: median $48 across 63 hospitalsCO$48Nebraska: median $57 across 64 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: median $35 across 72 hospitalsMO$35Kentucky: median $46 across 66 hospitalsKY$46West Virginia: median $28 across 41 hospitalsWV$28Virginia: median $73 across 72 hospitalsVA$73Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $57 across 38 hospitalsAZ$57New Mexico: median $53 across 19 hospitalsNM$53Kansas: median $49 across 63 hospitalsKS$49Arkansas: median $20 across 39 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $22 across 80 hospitalsTN$22North Carolina: median $44 across 83 hospitalsNC$44South Carolina: median $55 across 52 hospitalsSC$55Oklahoma: median $26 across 66 hospitalsOK$26Louisiana: median $19 across 50 hospitalsLA$19Mississippi: median $22 across 55 hospitalsMS$22Alabama: median $35 across 44 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $52 across 103 hospitalsGA$52Hawaii: median $36 across 17 hospitalsHI$36Texas: median $45 across 240 hospitalsTX$45Florida: median $41 across 151 hospitalsFL$41
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $39. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA72$73+86%$27 – $106
Vermont VT14$68+73%$50 – $110
South Dakota SD20$64+63%$33 – $167
Alaska AK16$64+62%$19 – $112
Illinois IL135$59+50%$25 – $105
Arizona AZ38$57+46%$16 – $108
Nebraska NE64$57+45%$25 – $114
Utah UT36$56+44%$56 – $69
South Carolina SC52$55+39%$34 – $117
New Mexico NM19$53+35%$27 – $66
Georgia GA103$52+32%$20 – $83
Kansas KS63$49+24%$19 – $82
Colorado CO63$48+23%$26 – $183
Kentucky KY66$46+16%$17 – $77
Wisconsin WI101$45+15%$25 – $61
Texas TX240$45+14%$27 – $119
North Carolina NC83$44+12%$19 – $63
Iowa IA83$43+11%$33 – $78
Minnesota MN98$43+9%$11 – $74
Maine ME28$41+6%$26 – $79
Florida FL151$41+4%$9 – $88
Wyoming WY15$40+2%$24 – $81
Montana MT19$40+1%$7 – $77
Washington WA67$39−2%$23 – $73
Ohio OH135$38−2%$21 – $68
Oregon OR43$38−3%$28 – $54
Hawaii HI17$36−8%$29 – $50
Missouri MO72$35−10%$23 – $51
Alabama AL44$35−12%$11 – $120
New Hampshire NH22$34−13%$24 – $131
Massachusetts MA50$34−14%$14 – $67
North Dakota ND26$33−16%$10 – $55
Pennsylvania PA118$29−27%$9 – $74
Nevada NV20$29−27%$14 – $84
Connecticut CT23$28−28%$17 – $54
West Virginia WV41$28−29%$18 – $89
Idaho ID20$28−29%$25 – $56
Maryland MD41$27−31%$21 – $33
Indiana IN93$27−32%$14 – $73
Oklahoma OK66$26−34%$14 – $72
Michigan MI94$26−35%$14 – $47
New York NY105$24−40%$10 – $66
Mississippi MS55$22−43%$9 – $42
California CA145$22−44%$7 – $63
Tennessee TN80$22−45%$10 – $61
Arkansas AR39$20−49%$10 – $40
Louisiana LA50$19−51%$9 – $45
New Jersey NJ57$6−84%$6 – $21
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $39.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,240$36$15 – $74
Children’s64$47$31 – $88
Critical access804$45$23 – $83
Ownership
For-profit444$52$18 – $179
Government550$39$19 – $70
Non-profit2,114$37$16 – $73
System affiliation
Part of a system2,572$40$17 – $79
Independent546$35$17 – $70

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$65
Median cash price$39
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

2,144 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $40 and the average of the middle 60% is $41; most fall between $18 and $74.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,144 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
$11$21$40$66$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $101).

Of the 2,360 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,144 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,118 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,394 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,118
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
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 — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,394

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 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 Sickle Cell Test.

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, “Sickle cell solubility screening test (CPT 85660) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85660-sickle-cell-solubility-screening-test