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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Cell count on body fluid other than blood

CPT 89050the billing code this page is about

Laboratory count of cells in a body fluid sample such as joint, spinal, chest, or abdominal fluid; does not include a breakdown of cell types.

Hospitals typically charge $48 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,448 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $51. Most fall between $18 and $101 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,448
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 2,448 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
$9$22$48$88$156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $156).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 117 hospitals$6$9 – $13: 126 hospitals$13 – $19: 152 hospitals$13$19 – $27: 228 hospitals$27 – $39: 292 hospitals$27$39 – $56: 360 hospitals$56 – $80: 346 hospitals$56$80 – $116: 309 hospitals$116 – $166: 173 hospitals$116$166 – $240: 101 hospitals$166median $48price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,204 of 2,448 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$9117
$9$13126
$13$19152
$19$27228
$27$39292
$39$56360
$56$80346
$80$116309
$116$166173
$166$240101

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $48.

Alaska: median $141 across 15 hospitalsAK$141Maine: median $41 across 23 hospitalsME$41Vermont: median $49 across 12 hospitalsVT$49New Hampshire: median $57 across 18 hospitalsNH$57Washington: median $56 across 55 hospitalsWA$56Idaho: median $21 across 20 hospitalsID$21Montana: median $56 across 21 hospitalsMT$56North Dakota: median $44 across 18 hospitalsND$44Minnesota: median $46 across 78 hospitalsMN$46Illinois: median $76 across 98 hospitalsIL$76Wisconsin: median $50 across 80 hospitalsWI$50Michigan: median $30 across 85 hospitalsMI$30New York: median $17 across 84 hospitalsNY$17Massachusetts: median $39 across 31 hospitalsMA$39Oregon: median $50 across 38 hospitalsOR$50Nevada: median $56 across 13 hospitalsNV$56Wyoming: median $50 across 15 hospitalsWY$50South Dakota: median $73 across 13 hospitalsSD$73Iowa: median $56 across 59 hospitalsIA$56Indiana: median $43 across 83 hospitalsIN$43Ohio: median $55 across 101 hospitalsOH$55Pennsylvania: median $24 across 110 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: median $5 across 52 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $28 across 20 hospitalsCT$28Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $84 across 116 hospitalsCA$84Utah: median $10 across 38 hospitalsUT$10Colorado: median $43 across 55 hospitalsCO$43Nebraska: median $43 across 53 hospitalsNE$43Missouri: median $42 across 59 hospitalsMO$42Kentucky: median $44 across 44 hospitalsKY$44West Virginia: median $27 across 24 hospitalsWV$27Virginia: median $47 across 54 hospitalsVA$47Maryland: median $54 across 34 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $89 across 27 hospitalsAZ$89New Mexico: median $27 across 21 hospitalsNM$27Kansas: median $50 across 53 hospitalsKS$50Arkansas: median $32 across 29 hospitalsAR$32Tennessee: median $27 across 63 hospitalsTN$27North Carolina: median $47 across 75 hospitalsNC$47South Carolina: median $101 across 34 hospitalsSC$101Oklahoma: median $23 across 49 hospitalsOK$23Louisiana: median $29 across 28 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $27 across 38 hospitalsMS$27Alabama: median $35 across 21 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $68 across 85 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: median $28 across 10 hospitalsHI$28Texas: median $86 across 172 hospitalsTX$86Florida: median $73 across 111 hospitalsFL$73
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $48. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK15$141+193%$94 – $221
South Carolina SC34$101+111%$37 – $113
Arizona AZ27$89+85%$27 – $178
Texas TX172$86+78%$49 – $204
California CA116$84+75%$55 – $154
Illinois IL98$76+58%$42 – $158
Florida FL111$73+51%$9 – $375
South Dakota SD13$73+51%$32 – $91
Georgia GA85$68+42%$31 – $151
New Hampshire NH18$57+19%$46 – $95
Iowa IA59$56+16%$31 – $98
Nevada NV13$56+16%$11 – $134
Washington WA55$56+16%$35 – $100
Montana MT21$56+16%$25 – $83
Ohio OH101$55+15%$29 – $89
Maryland MD34$54+13%$42 – $65
Wyoming WY15$50+4%$10 – $89
Oregon OR38$50+4%$25 – $86
Wisconsin WI80$50+4%$30 – $70
Kansas KS53$50+3%$26 – $91
Vermont VT12$49+1%$40 – $99
North Carolina NC75$47−2%$21 – $80
Virginia VA54$47−3%$10 – $179
Minnesota MN78$46−5%$23 – $75
Kentucky KY44$44−9%$22 – $59
North Dakota ND18$44−9%$26 – $100
Indiana IN83$43−10%$11 – $96
Nebraska NE53$43−10%$25 – $99
Colorado CO55$43−11%$23 – $96
Missouri MO59$42−13%$25 – $93
Maine ME23$41−15%$24 – $95
Massachusetts MA31$39−19%$12 – $85
Alabama AL21$35−27%$10 – $52
Arkansas AR29$32−34%$7 – $53
Michigan MI85$30−38%$13 – $36
Louisiana LA28$29−40%$13 – $85
Hawaii HI10$28−41%$28 – $75
Connecticut CT20$28−43%$12 – $53
Mississippi MS38$27−43%$15 – $53
West Virginia WV24$27−43%$19 – $48
Tennessee TN63$27−44%$10 – $52
New Mexico NM21$27−45%$20 – $76
Pennsylvania PA110$24−51%$7 – $60
Oklahoma OK49$23−52%$10 – $56
Idaho ID20$21−56%$15 – $57
New York NY84$17−64%$6 – $76
Utah UT38$10−80%$8 – $90
New Jersey NJ52$5−89%$5 – $104
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $48.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,793$48$16 – $103
Children’s47$72$27 – $140
Critical access600$49$23 – $91
Ownership
For-profit356$68$21 – $261
Government370$51$19 – $98
Non-profit1,714$46$17 – $90
System affiliation
Part of a system2,052$48$18 – $101
Independent396$48$19 – $106

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$80
Median cash price$48
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

1,673 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $50 and the average of the middle 60% is $53; most fall between $19 and $101.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,673 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$24$50$89$148

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $148).

Of the 1,840 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,673 gave a usable cash price; 98 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,448 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,661 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,448
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here135
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 — excluded76
Hospitals that filed this code2,661

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 Crrt Effluent RBC Count.

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, “Cell count on body fluid other than blood (CPT 89050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-89050-cell-count-on-body-fluid-other-than-blood