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B cell count in blood

CPT 86355the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that counts the total number of B lymphocytes, a type of immune white blood cell, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $101 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,699 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $106. Most fall between $43 and $201 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,699
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,699 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
$29$51$101$169$299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $299).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $24: 77 hospitals$18$24 – $33: 118 hospitals$33 – $45: 264 hospitals$33$45 – $62: 237 hospitals$62 – $85: 336 hospitals$62$85 – $116: 377 hospitals$116 – $159: 368 hospitals$116$159 – $217: 352 hospitals$217 – $297: 165 hospitals$217$297 – $406: 137 hospitals$297median $101price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,431 of 2,699 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$2477
$24$33118
$33$45264
$45$62237
$62$85336
$85$116377
$116$159368
$159$217352
$217$297165
$297$406137

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $101.

Alaska: median $85 across 14 hospitalsAK$85Maine: median $69 across 27 hospitalsME$69Vermont: median $85 across 11 hospitalsVT$85New Hampshire: median $123 across 23 hospitalsNH$123Washington: median $144 across 57 hospitalsWA$144Idaho: median $104 across 19 hospitalsID$104Montana: median $101 across 23 hospitalsMT$101North Dakota: median $151 across 20 hospitalsND$151Minnesota: median $106 across 94 hospitalsMN$106Illinois: median $154 across 119 hospitalsIL$154Wisconsin: median $154 across 93 hospitalsWI$154Michigan: median $75 across 83 hospitalsMI$75New York: median $86 across 101 hospitalsNY$86Massachusetts: median $131 across 48 hospitalsMA$131Oregon: median $121 across 39 hospitalsOR$121Nevada: median $114 across 15 hospitalsNV$114Wyoming: median $86 across 14 hospitalsWY$86South Dakota: median $125 across 20 hospitalsSD$125Iowa: median $125 across 71 hospitalsIA$125Indiana: median $86 across 83 hospitalsIN$86Ohio: median $90 across 123 hospitalsOH$90Pennsylvania: median $133 across 115 hospitalsPA$133New Jersey: median $42 across 56 hospitalsNJ$42Connecticut: median $108 across 18 hospitalsCT$108Rhode Island: median $75 across 10 hospitalsRI$75California: median $39 across 105 hospitalsCA$39Utah: median $316 across 36 hospitalsUT$316Colorado: median $100 across 62 hospitalsCO$100Nebraska: median $108 across 67 hospitalsNE$108Missouri: median $94 across 59 hospitalsMO$94Kentucky: median $106 across 52 hospitalsKY$106West Virginia: median $58 across 28 hospitalsWV$58Virginia: median $137 across 69 hospitalsVA$137Maryland: median $132 across 39 hospitalsMD$132Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $137 across 32 hospitalsAZ$137New Mexico: median $118 across 17 hospitalsNM$118Kansas: median $95 across 58 hospitalsKS$95Arkansas: median $59 across 33 hospitalsAR$59Tennessee: median $66 across 61 hospitalsTN$66North Carolina: median $75 across 76 hospitalsNC$75South Carolina: median $212 across 37 hospitalsSC$212Oklahoma: median $75 across 55 hospitalsOK$75Louisiana: median $66 across 43 hospitalsLA$66Mississippi: median $49 across 44 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $58 across 29 hospitalsAL$58Georgia: median $97 across 88 hospitalsGA$97Hawaii: median $222 across 15 hospitalsHI$222Texas: median $51 across 173 hospitalsTX$51Florida: median $74 across 118 hospitalsFL$74
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $101. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT36$316+214%$101 – $372
Hawaii HI15$222+120%$164 – $455
South Carolina SC37$212+110%$53 – $217
Illinois IL119$154+53%$78 – $212
Wisconsin WI93$154+53%$122 – $257
North Dakota ND20$151+50%$66 – $232
Washington WA57$144+43%$91 – $198
Arizona AZ32$137+36%$42 – $358
Virginia VA69$137+36%$56 – $224
Pennsylvania PA115$133+32%$47 – $335
Maryland MD39$132+31%$104 – $163
Massachusetts MA48$131+30%$91 – $162
Iowa IA71$125+24%$86 – $171
South Dakota SD20$125+24%$60 – $443
New Hampshire NH23$123+22%$18 – $208
Oregon OR39$121+20%$51 – $185
New Mexico NM17$118+17%$72 – $179
Nevada NV15$114+13%$37 – $194
Connecticut CT18$108+7%$67 – $161
Nebraska NE67$108+7%$73 – $169
Kentucky KY52$106+6%$46 – $271
Minnesota MN94$106+5%$60 – $212
Idaho ID19$104+3%$22 – $184
Montana MT23$1010%$52 – $165
Colorado CO62$100−1%$46 – $272
Georgia GA88$97−4%$49 – $194
Kansas KS58$95−6%$50 – $215
Missouri MO59$94−7%$42 – $153
Ohio OH123$90−11%$60 – $169
Indiana IN83$86−14%$54 – $161
Wyoming WY14$86−15%$53 – $224
New York NY101$86−15%$38 – $201
Vermont VT11$85−16%$70 – $162
Alaska AK14$85−16%$48 – $129
North Carolina NC76$75−25%$41 – $188
Michigan MI83$75−25%$41 – $210
Oklahoma OK55$75−26%$48 – $118
Rhode Island RI10$75−26%$68 – $120
Florida FL118$74−27%$19 – $223
Maine ME27$69−32%$30 – $141
Louisiana LA43$66−34%$45 – $93
Tennessee TN61$66−35%$36 – $94
Arkansas AR33$59−41%$40 – $114
West Virginia WV28$58−42%$21 – $179
Alabama AL29$58−43%$38 – $152
Texas TX173$51−50%$17 – $251
Mississippi MS44$49−52%$17 – $77
New Jersey NJ56$42−58%$33 – $57
California CA105$39−61%$15 – $159
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 $101.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,967$94$41 – $194
Children’s53$86$50 – $261
Critical access670$120$57 – $213
Ownership
For-profit322$91$41 – $254
Government434$92$48 – $186
Non-profit1,934$105$43 – $202
System affiliation
Part of a system2,261$103$42 – $204
Independent438$94$46 – $179

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$168
Median cash price$101
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

1,882 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $105 and the average of the middle 60% is $111; most fall between $45 and $206.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,882 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
$29$52$105$178$290

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $290).

Of the 2,081 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,882 gave a usable cash price; 103 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 96 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,699 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,949 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,699
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here137
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded111
Hospitals that filed this code2,949

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 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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC B-Cells, Total Count(TB Pan).

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, “B cell count in blood (CPT 86355) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86355-b-cell-count-in-blood