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T cell count in blood

CPT 86359the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $104 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,896 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $108. Most fall between $44 and $198 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,896
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 2,896 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$54$104$175$289

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $289).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $24: 78 hospitals$17$24 – $33: 133 hospitals$33 – $45: 260 hospitals$33$45 – $63: 246 hospitals$63 – $86: 375 hospitals$63$86 – $119: 410 hospitals$119 – $164: 452 hospitals$119$164 – $226: 351 hospitals$226 – $311: 198 hospitals$226$311 – $428: 111 hospitals$311median $104price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,614 of 2,896 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2478
$24$33133
$33$45260
$45$63246
$63$86375
$86$119410
$119$164452
$164$226351
$226$311198
$311$428111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $104.

Alaska: median $106 across 14 hospitalsAK$106Maine: median $61 across 27 hospitalsME$61Vermont: median $92 across 14 hospitalsVT$92New Hampshire: median $122 across 20 hospitalsNH$122Washington: median $144 across 62 hospitalsWA$144Idaho: median $104 across 19 hospitalsID$104Montana: median $107 across 22 hospitalsMT$107North Dakota: median $124 across 23 hospitalsND$124Minnesota: median $94 across 98 hospitalsMN$94Illinois: median $143 across 125 hospitalsIL$143Wisconsin: median $153 across 95 hospitalsWI$153Michigan: median $86 across 90 hospitalsMI$86New York: median $93 across 114 hospitalsNY$93Massachusetts: median $132 across 51 hospitalsMA$132Oregon: median $121 across 41 hospitalsOR$121Nevada: median $172 across 15 hospitalsNV$172Wyoming: median $100 across 14 hospitalsWY$100South Dakota: median $132 across 20 hospitalsSD$132Iowa: median $110 across 71 hospitalsIA$110Indiana: median $92 across 90 hospitalsIN$92Ohio: median $81 across 131 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $146 across 121 hospitalsPA$146New Jersey: median $42 across 56 hospitalsNJ$42Connecticut: median $108 across 19 hospitalsCT$108Rhode Island: median $75 across 10 hospitalsRI$75California: median $64 across 130 hospitalsCA$64Utah: median $290 across 40 hospitalsUT$290Colorado: median $100 across 63 hospitalsCO$100Nebraska: median $110 across 70 hospitalsNE$110Missouri: median $90 across 62 hospitalsMO$90Kentucky: median $113 across 57 hospitalsKY$113West Virginia: median $72 across 28 hospitalsWV$72Virginia: median $133 across 72 hospitalsVA$133Maryland: median $136 across 41 hospitalsMD$136Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $143 across 35 hospitalsAZ$143New Mexico: median $130 across 17 hospitalsNM$130Kansas: median $122 across 58 hospitalsKS$122Arkansas: median $55 across 31 hospitalsAR$55Tennessee: median $72 across 68 hospitalsTN$72North Carolina: median $85 across 84 hospitalsNC$85South Carolina: median $194 across 48 hospitalsSC$194Oklahoma: median $80 across 59 hospitalsOK$80Louisiana: median $68 across 46 hospitalsLA$68Mississippi: median $54 across 47 hospitalsMS$54Alabama: median $58 across 30 hospitalsAL$58Georgia: median $73 across 90 hospitalsGA$73Hawaii: median $164 across 16 hospitalsHI$164Texas: median $82 across 201 hospitalsTX$82Florida: median $49 across 134 hospitalsFL$49
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $104. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT40$290+178%$98 – $341
South Carolina SC48$194+86%$95 – $218
Nevada NV15$172+64%$37 – $261
Hawaii HI16$164+57%$94 – $253
Wisconsin WI95$153+46%$120 – $233
Pennsylvania PA121$146+39%$57 – $352
Washington WA62$144+38%$102 – $193
Illinois IL125$143+37%$67 – $205
Arizona AZ35$143+37%$42 – $284
Maryland MD41$136+30%$104 – $163
Virginia VA72$133+27%$65 – $214
Massachusetts MA51$132+26%$83 – $171
South Dakota SD20$132+26%$60 – $192
New Mexico NM17$130+24%$94 – $179
North Dakota ND23$124+19%$66 – $289
New Hampshire NH20$122+17%$32 – $178
Kansas KS58$122+16%$68 – $259
Oregon OR41$121+16%$76 – $156
Kentucky KY57$113+8%$46 – $208
Iowa IA71$110+5%$84 – $146
Nebraska NE70$110+5%$78 – $142
Connecticut CT19$108+4%$69 – $158
Montana MT22$107+3%$48 – $141
Alaska AK14$106+2%$51 – $221
Idaho ID19$1040%$22 – $203
Wyoming WY14$100−4%$48 – $167
Colorado CO63$100−5%$46 – $220
Minnesota MN98$94−10%$51 – $184
New York NY114$93−11%$38 – $186
Indiana IN90$92−11%$58 – $172
Vermont VT14$92−12%$69 – $195
Missouri MO62$90−14%$56 – $156
Michigan MI90$86−18%$41 – $233
North Carolina NC84$85−19%$39 – $191
Texas TX201$82−22%$20 – $302
Ohio OH131$81−22%$61 – $168
Oklahoma OK59$80−23%$53 – $118
Rhode Island RI10$75−28%$68 – $120
Georgia GA90$73−30%$64 – $194
West Virginia WV28$72−31%$19 – $189
Tennessee TN68$72−31%$38 – $218
Louisiana LA46$68−35%$44 – $113
California CA130$64−39%$15 – $138
Maine ME27$61−41%$33 – $127
Alabama AL30$58−45%$37 – $152
Arkansas AR31$55−47%$43 – $114
Mississippi MS47$54−49%$18 – $115
Florida FL134$49−53%$16 – $204
New Jersey NJ56$42−60%$38 – $102
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 $104.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,109$95$42 – $198
Children’s53$96$43 – $242
Critical access724$120$60 – $199
Ownership
For-profit377$113$43 – $290
Government476$94$45 – $174
Non-profit2,033$106$44 – $195
System affiliation
Part of a system2,418$106$43 – $200
Independent478$101$46 – $185

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$175
Median cash price$104
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

2,009 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $109 and the average of the middle 60% is $113; most fall between $48 and $203.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,009 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
$31$58$109$184$284

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $284).

Of the 2,208 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,009 gave a usable cash price; 101 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,896 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (73%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,150 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,896
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here139
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 — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,150

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 T-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, “T cell count in blood (CPT 86359) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86359-t-cell-count-in-blood