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Washed red blood cells, per unit

HCPCS P9022the billing code this page is about

One unit of red blood cells rinsed to remove plasma proteins before transfusion; the charge is per unit supplied.

Hospitals typically charge $584 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 254 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $581. Most fall between $331 and $998 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
254
States
37
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 254 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
$217$376$584$845$1,684

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($217 vs $1,684).

How the prices are spread

$173 – $221: 19 hospitals$173$221 – $282: 15 hospitals$282 – $360: 13 hospitals$282$360 – $459: 45 hospitals$459 – $586: 41 hospitals$459$586 – $748: 37 hospitals$748 – $954: 23 hospitals$748$954 – $1,217: 16 hospitals$1,217 – $1,553: 4 hospitals$1,217$1,553 – $1,982: 23 hospitals$1,553median $584price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (236 of 254 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$173$22119
$221$28215
$282$36013
$360$45945
$459$58641
$586$74837
$748$95423
$954$1,21716
$1,217$1,5534
$1,553$1,98223

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$369
Median cash price$584
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.58×

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 $584.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $757 across 11 hospitalsMI$757New York: median $413 across 10 hospitalsNY$413Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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 $605 across 11 hospitalsIA$605Indiana: median $365 across 18 hospitalsIN$365Ohio: median $556 across 22 hospitalsOH$556Pennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $1,684 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,684Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $289 across 10 hospitalsVA$289Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $410 across 11 hospitalsTN$410North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $584 across 35 hospitalsTX$584Florida: median $173 across 18 hospitalsFL$173
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $584. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$1,684+189%$1,684 – $1,982
Michigan MI11$757+30%$757 – $757
Iowa IA11$605+4%$429 – $605
Texas TX35$5840%$584 – $611
Ohio OH22$556−5%$537 – $862
New York NY10$413−29%$386 – $1,290
Tennessee TN11$410−30%$266 – $410
Indiana IN18$365−38%$314 – $490
Virginia VA10$289−50%$195 – $1,208
Florida FL18$173−70%$173 – $243
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $584.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care211$584$304 – $998
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access34$516$400 – $1,028
Ownership
For-profit39$456$212 – $651
Government25$410$243 – $820
Non-profit189$605$376 – $1,040
System affiliation
Part of a system233$584$360 – $998
Independent21$487$280 – $845

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,059
Median cash price$584
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

200 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $584 and the average of the middle 60% is $585; most fall between $334 and $998.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 200 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
$212$394$584$820$1,982

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($212 vs $1,982).

Of the 214 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 200 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

254 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 270 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted254
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code270

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Washed RBC Unit Designated Lkpoor.

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, “Washed red blood cells, per unit (CPT P9022) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-p9022-washed-red-blood-cells-per-unit