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Automated Red Blood Cell Count

Kansas 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 Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2.75 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.69 from a physician practice, and about $6.76 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 6 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$2.69$2.63 to $2.95
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6.76$4.47 to $9.55

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7 · 10th to 90th $3 to $11Professionalmedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $5
$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
$3.24
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$9.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$2.69
Typical High
$3.02
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.86
Median
$1.86
Typical High
$2.09
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$10.72
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$4.79
Typical High
$4.79
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$4.90
Typical High
$6.92
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.51
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$7.94
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.63
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$11.48
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$1.82
Typical High
$4.79
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.82
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$4.27
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$1.95
Typical High
$5.01

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 43rd 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.