Procedure price report

Platelets, filtered, virus-safe and irradiated, per unit

HCPCS code HCPCS P9053the billing code this page is about

Supply of one apheresis-collected platelet unit that has had white cells filtered out, tested negative for cytomegalovirus, and been irradiated; billed per unit.

Hospitals typically charge $1,215 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 130 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,671. Most fall between $891 and $3,106 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
130
States
26
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Aug 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 130 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
$767$1,061$1,215$2,796$4,485

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($767 vs $4,485).

How the prices are spread

$533 – $663: 6 hospitals$533$663 – $826: 6 hospitals$826 – $1,027: 13 hospitals$826$1,027 – $1,279: 36 hospitals$1,279 – $1,592: 13 hospitals$1,279$1,592 – $1,981: 5 hospitals$1,981 – $2,465: 5 hospitals$1,981$2,465 – $3,068: 12 hospitals$3,068 – $3,819: 12 hospitals$3,068$3,819 – $4,753: 10 hospitals$3,819median $1,215price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (118 of 130 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$533$6636
$663$8266
$826$1,02713
$1,027$1,27936
$1,279$1,59213
$1,592$1,9815
$1,981$2,4655
$2,465$3,06812
$3,068$3,81912
$3,819$4,75310

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$503
Median cash price$1,215
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $1,215.

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: 2 hospitals 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: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 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 $1,147 across 11 hospitalsIA$1,147Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $4,753 across 11 hospitalsPA$4,753New 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $2,796 across 21 hospitalsUT$2,796Colorado: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 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: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,215 across 14 hospitalsTX$1,215Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,215. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA11$4,753+291%$3,467 – $5,153
Utah UT21$2,796+130%$2,796 – $3,106
Texas TX14$1,2150%$1,215 – $1,215
Iowa IA11$1,147−6%$1,147 – $1,171
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $1,215.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care110$1,215$891 – $3,106
Critical access19fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government11fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit101$1,481$1,039 – $3,106
System affiliation
Part of a system122$1,215$914 – $3,106
Independent8fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,042
Median cash price$1,215
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

116 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,253 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,815; most fall between $1,039 and $3,106.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 116 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
$891$1,144$1,253$2,796$4,485

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($891 vs $4,485).

Of the 124 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 116 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

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

What the 138 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted130
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code138

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 14, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Plt pher l/r cmv-neg irr.

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, “Platelets, filtered, virus-safe and irradiated, per unit (CPT P9053) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-p9053-platelets-filtered-virus-safe-and-irradiated-per-unit