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Automated Red Blood Cell Count

Maryland 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?

$2.69

Typical negotiated rate. In Maryland, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2.69 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.69 from a physician practice, and about $3.89 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$2.29 to $2.75
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3.89$2.69 to $34.67

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4 · 10th to 90th $2 to $37Professionalmedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $5
$2$5$10$20facility $4professional $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
$2.69
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$37.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.24
Median
$2.69
Typical High
$11.75
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.85
Median
$2.40
Typical High
$2.95
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.58
Median
$2.04
Typical High
$3.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.70
Median
$3.09
Typical High
$7.24
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$3.63
Typical High
$5.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$1.45
Typical High
$3.55
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.35
Median
$1.78
Typical High
$2.82
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.17
Median
$2.09
Typical High
$4.57

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 49th of 51

$2.69

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.