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Automated Red Blood Cell Count

South Carolina 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?

$2.95

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2.95 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.40 from a physician practice, and about $9.55 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 5 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$2.40$2.34 to $2.63
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9.55$3.80 to $23.44

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10 · 10th to 90th $2 to $74Professionalmedian $2 · 10th to 90th $2 to $4
$2$5$10$20$50facility $10professional $2

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
$2.34
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$74.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.34
Median
$2.34
Typical High
$2.63
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$27.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$3.39
Typical High
$6.17
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.89
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$23.99
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.48
Median
$2.00
Typical High
$3.98
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.34
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$8.71
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.51
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$3.63
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$1.95
Typical High
$4.17

Where South Carolina 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.

South Carolina· 29th of 51

$2.95

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.