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Whole blood or red cells, filtered and virus-safe, per unit

HCPCS P9051the billing code this page is about

Supply of one unit of whole blood or red blood cells that has had white cells filtered out and tested negative for cytomegalovirus; billed per unit transfused.

Hospitals typically charge $502 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 146 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $590. Most fall between $411 and $1,210 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
146
States
25
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 146 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
$300$419$502$697$1,344

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($300 vs $1,344).

How the prices are spread

$230 – $283: 6 hospitals$230$283 – $346: 4 hospitals$346 – $425: 41 hospitals$346$425 – $520: 32 hospitals$520 – $638: 17 hospitals$520$638 – $782: 7 hospitals$782 – $959: 0 hospitals$782$959 – $1,175: 0 hospitals$1,175 – $1,441: 23 hospitals$1,175$1,441 – $1,766: 4 hospitals$1,441median $502price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (134 of 146 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$230$2836
$283$3464
$346$42541
$425$52032
$520$63817
$638$7827
$782$9590
$959$1,1750
$1,175$1,44123
$1,441$1,7664

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$152
Median cash price$502
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.3×

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 $502.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $577 across 11 hospitalsIA$577Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $411 across 14 hospitalsOH$411Pennsylvania: median $1,766 across 10 hospitalsPA$1,766New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $1,210 across 21 hospitalsUT$1,210Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: median $422 across 11 hospitalsNC$422South 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 $502 across 28 hospitalsTX$502Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $502. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA10$1,766+252%$1,300 – $1,915
Utah UT21$1,210+141%$1,210 – $1,344
Iowa IA11$577+15%$437 – $577
Texas TX28$5020%$419 – $502
North Carolina NC11$422−16%$400 – $422
Ohio OH14$411−18%$411 – $597
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not 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 $502.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care122$502$411 – $1,210
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access22$437$407 – $1,210
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government10fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit118$502$411 – $1,210
System affiliation
Part of a system138$502$411 – $1,210
Independent8fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$836
Median cash price$502
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

131 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $502 and the average of the middle 60% is $609; most fall between $419 and $1,210.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 131 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
$407$422$502$776$1,344

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($407 vs $1,344).

Of the 136 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 131 gave a usable cash price; 4 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

146 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 151 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted146
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code151

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 Blood l/r cmv-neg.

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, “Whole blood or red cells, filtered and virus-safe, per unit (CPT P9051) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-p9051-whole-blood-or-red-cells-filtered-and-virus-safe-per-unit