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Automated Red Blood Cell Count

Colorado rates for HCPCS 85041

This blood test uses an automated instrument to count the number of red blood cells in a sample. It provides information used to help evaluate conditions like anemia or other blood disorders.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Automated Red Blood Cell Count cost?

$2.75

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2.75 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.51 from a physician practice, and about $7.41 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$2.51$2.29 to $2.75
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7.41$3.98 to $12.59

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7 · 10th to 90th $2 to $15Professionalmedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $3
$2$5$10$20facility $7professional $3

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.91
Median
$5.25
Typical High
$14.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$2.63
Typical High
$2.82
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.80
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$15.14
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$1.35
Typical High
$2.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.70
Median
$2.14
Typical High
$7.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.51
Median
$1.95
Typical High
$3.63
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$6.31
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$7.94
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$6.31
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.09
Median
$2.09
Typical High
$3.02
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$4.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$1.78
Typical High
$2.82

Where Colorado sits

The same service costs 2.1 times more in Nebraska than in Washington, DC. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Colorado· 39th of 51

$2.75

NE $4.90DC $2.29

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.