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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Unlisted blood cell (hematology) laboratory test

CPT 85999the billing code this page is about

Used for a blood or clotting laboratory test that has no specific billing code of its own; the exact test performed is described separately by the lab.

Hospitals typically charge $41 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 738 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $48. Most fall between $18 and $104 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
738
States
49
Filings dated
Nov 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 738 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
$12$21$41$90$163

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $163).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 33 hospitals$8$11 – $16: 48 hospitals$16 – $22: 101 hospitals$16$22 – $32: 71 hospitals$32 – $46: 126 hospitals$32$46 – $67: 92 hospitals$67 – $96: 75 hospitals$67$96 – $138: 70 hospitals$138 – $199: 41 hospitals$138$199 – $287: 20 hospitals$199median $41price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (677 of 738 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$1133
$11$1648
$16$22101
$22$3271
$32$46126
$46$6792
$67$9675
$96$13870
$138$19941
$199$28720

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $41.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $44 across 16 hospitalsWA$44Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $104 across 22 hospitalsMN$104Illinois: median $65 across 44 hospitalsIL$65Wisconsin: median $39 across 32 hospitalsWI$39Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $21 across 22 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: median $21 across 16 hospitalsMA$21Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $34 across 17 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $92 across 31 hospitalsIN$92Ohio: median $60 across 20 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $44 across 48 hospitalsPA$44New Jersey: median $27 across 17 hospitalsNJ$27Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $20 across 52 hospitalsCA$20Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $36 across 11 hospitalsCO$36Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $31 across 38 hospitalsMO$31Kentucky: median $54 across 12 hospitalsKY$54West Virginia: median $8 across 17 hospitalsWV$8Virginia: median $28 across 11 hospitalsVA$28Maryland: median $31 across 20 hospitalsMD$31Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $120 across 15 hospitalsAZ$120New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $47 across 12 hospitalsKS$47Arkansas: median $22 across 16 hospitalsAR$22Tennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $50 across 39 hospitalsNC$50South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $22 across 34 hospitalsOK$22Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $39 across 28 hospitalsGA$39Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $55 across 23 hospitalsTX$55Florida: median $47 across 17 hospitalsFL$47
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $41. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ15$120+195%$28 – $120
Minnesota MN22$104+155%$59 – $191
Indiana IN31$92+126%$77 – $122
Illinois IL44$65+60%$30 – $147
Ohio OH20$60+48%$20 – $163
Texas TX23$55+35%$12 – $159
Kentucky KY12$54+32%$54 – $68
North Carolina NC39$50+24%$38 – $76
Florida FL17$47+16%$6 – $104
Kansas KS12$47+16%$31 – $457
Washington WA16$44+8%$29 – $74
Pennsylvania PA48$44+8%$12 – $95
Georgia GA28$39−4%$20 – $173
Wisconsin WI32$39−4%$22 – $45
Colorado CO11$36−13%$18 – $110
Iowa IA17$34−17%$34 – $36
Missouri MO38$31−23%$29 – $49
Maryland MD20$31−23%$17 – $81
Virginia VA11$28−31%$28 – $53
New Jersey NJ17$27−35%$16 – $68
Oklahoma OK34$22−45%$11 – $54
Arkansas AR16$22−46%$10 – $32
Massachusetts MA16$21−48%$18 – $45
New York NY22$21−48%$13 – $156
California CA52$20−50%$17 – $52
West Virginia WV17$8−82%$8 – $8
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $41.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care533$40$17 – $97
Children’s34$119$55 – $478
Critical access170$43$22 – $101
Ownership
For-profit69$44$17 – $128
Government110$39$20 – $81
Non-profit558$41$18 – $104
System affiliation
Part of a system608$40$17 – $97
Independent130$52$20 – $155

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$76
Median cash price$41
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

498 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $40 and the average of the middle 60% is $49; most fall between $20 and $107.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 498 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$22$40$96$173

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $173).

Of the 580 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 498 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 51 a list price only.

How complete is this

738 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 853 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted738
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded83
Hospitals that filed this code853

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 Hematology and coagulation procedures.

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, “Unlisted blood cell (hematology) laboratory test (CPT 85999) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85999-unlisted-blood-cell-hematology-laboratory-test