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Automated Red Blood Cell Count

New Jersey 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?

$3.47

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3.47 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.69 from a physician practice, and about $7.76 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 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$2.69$2.34 to $3.16
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7.76$4.57 to $17.38

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8 · 10th to 90th $3 to $42Professionalmedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $4
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $8professional $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
$3.89
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$19.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.24
Median
$2.69
Typical High
$4.47
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.86
Median
$1.86
Typical High
$1.86
AmeriHealth
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$323.59
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.47
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$13.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.78
Median
$2.88
Typical High
$8.71
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.20
Median
$1.51
Typical High
$3.24
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$23,988.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.82
Median
$2.63
Typical High
$3.39
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.41
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$6.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.20
Median
$1.82
Typical High
$4.37

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 15th of 51

$3.47

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.