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Previously frozen red blood cells, thawed, per unit

HCPCS P9039the billing code this page is about

One unit of red blood cells that was frozen with a preservative and then washed free of it for transfusion; the charge is per unit.

Hospitals typically charge $767 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 198 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $778. Most fall between $384 and $1,510 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
198
States
33
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 198 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
$228$444$767$1,030$3,181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($228 vs $3,181).

How the prices are spread

$200 – $267: 20 hospitals$200$267 – $357: 7 hospitals$357 – $478: 20 hospitals$357$478 – $638: 25 hospitals$638 – $854: 23 hospitals$638$854 – $1,141: 46 hospitals$1,141 – $1,526: 10 hospitals$1,141$1,526 – $2,040: 4 hospitals$2,040 – $2,727: 13 hospitals$2,040$2,727 – $3,646: 14 hospitals$2,727median $767price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (182 of 198 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$200$26720
$267$3577
$357$47820
$478$63825
$638$85423
$854$1,14146
$1,141$1,52610
$1,526$2,0404
$2,040$2,72713
$2,727$3,64614

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$313
Median cash price$767
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $767.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 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 $767 across 11 hospitalsIA$767Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,030 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,030Pennsylvania: median $3,646 across 11 hospitalsPA$3,646New Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $2,704 across 22 hospitalsUT$2,704Colorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 2 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $898 across 31 hospitalsTX$898Florida: median $228 across 18 hospitalsFL$228
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $767. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA11$3,646+375%$3,646 – $3,954
Utah UT22$2,704+253%$2,704 – $3,181
Ohio OH12$1,030+34%$633 – $1,030
Texas TX31$898+17%$857 – $943
Iowa IA11$7670%$72 – $767
Florida FL18$228−70%$228 – $255
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $767.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care169$771$384 – $1,400
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$628$165 – $2,704
Ownership
For-profit25$674$246 – $857
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit154$795$388 – $2,227
System affiliation
Part of a system179$774$380 – $1,519
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,428
Median cash price$767
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

170 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $857 and the average of the middle 60% is $811; most fall between $347 and $1,964.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 170 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
$228$427$857$1,233$3,181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($228 vs $3,181).

Of the 176 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 170 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

198 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 204 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted198
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code204

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 23, 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 Rbc deglycerolized.

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, “Previously frozen red blood cells, thawed, per unit (CPT P9039) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-p9039-previously-frozen-red-blood-cells-thawed-per-unit