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Red blood cells with white cells removed, per unit

HCPCS P9016the billing code this page is about

One unit of red blood cells that has had most white blood cells filtered out before transfusion; the charge is per unit supplied.

Hospitals typically charge $391 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 452 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $394. Most fall between $205 and $642 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
452
States
45
Filings dated
Dec 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 452 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
$161$238$391$579$1,053

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($161 vs $1,053).

How the prices are spread

$114 – $145: 15 hospitals$114$145 – $184: 30 hospitals$184 – $233: 45 hospitals$184$233 – $296: 35 hospitals$296 – $376: 60 hospitals$296$376 – $477: 92 hospitals$477 – $605: 49 hospitals$477$605 – $769: 43 hospitals$769 – $976: 12 hospitals$769$976 – $1,238: 28 hospitals$976median $391price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (409 of 452 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$114$14515
$145$18430
$184$23345
$233$29635
$296$37660
$376$47792
$477$60549
$605$76943
$769$97612
$976$1,23828

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$185
Median cash price$391
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $391.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $284 across 11 hospitalsMT$284North Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $463 across 20 hospitalsMN$463Illinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $375 across 16 hospitalsMI$375New York: median $345 across 18 hospitalsNY$345Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $389 across 13 hospitalsOR$389Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $425 across 12 hospitalsIA$425Indiana: median $221 across 28 hospitalsIN$221Ohio: median $293 across 31 hospitalsOH$293Pennsylvania: median $609 across 16 hospitalsPA$609New Jersey: median $759 across 10 hospitalsNJ$759Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $158 across 16 hospitalsCA$158Utah: median $1,053 across 24 hospitalsUT$1,053Colorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $542 across 15 hospitalsVA$542Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $205 across 17 hospitalsTN$205North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $391 across 10 hospitalsOK$391Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $410 across 53 hospitalsTX$410Florida: median $111 across 19 hospitalsFL$111
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $391. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT24$1,053+169%$1,053 – $1,238
New Jersey NJ10$759+94%$215 – $1,002
Pennsylvania PA16$609+56%$320 – $1,915
Virginia VA15$542+39%$143 – $656
Minnesota MN20$463+18%$309 – $508
Iowa IA12$425+9%$386 – $439
Texas TX53$410+5%$370 – $557
Oklahoma OK10$3910%$231 – $520
Oregon OR13$389−1%$373 – $716
Michigan MI16$375−4%$294 – $375
New York NY18$345−12%$191 – $417
Ohio OH31$293−25%$272 – $567
Montana MT11$284−27%$284 – $432
Indiana IN28$221−43%$164 – $528
Tennessee TN17$205−48%$192 – $390
California CA16$158−60%$126 – $377
Florida FL19$111−72%$111 – $306
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not 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 $391.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care350$390$203 – $658
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access93$411$217 – $623
Ownership
For-profit76$393$164 – $598
Government54$353$205 – $698
Non-profit320$393$224 – $656
System affiliation
Part of a system381$393$205 – $633
Independent71$353$245 – $698

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$675
Median cash price$391
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

369 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $391 and the average of the middle 60% is $392; most fall between $215 and $628.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 369 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
$160$272$391$540$1,053

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($160 vs $1,053).

Of the 390 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 369 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

452 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 476 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted452
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code476

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Leukodepleted Red Cells.

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, “Red blood cells with white cells removed, per unit (CPT P9016) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-p9016-red-blood-cells-with-white-cells-removed-per-unit