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Automated Red Blood Cell Count

South Dakota 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?

$2.82

Typical negotiated rate. In South Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2.82 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.75 from a physician practice, and about $5.50 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$2.75$2.69 to $5.50
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5.50$5.50 to $25.70

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5 · 10th to 90th $3 to $54Professionalmedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $7
$2$5$10$20$50$100facility $5professional $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
$3.47
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$53.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.04
Median
$2.69
Typical High
$2.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$5.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.31
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$6.92
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.82
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$20.89
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.82
Median
$2.09
Typical High
$4.17
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$8.32
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.63
Median
$3.63
Typical High
$3.63
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$2.69
Typical High
$5.25
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$3.02

Where South Dakota 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 Dakota· 32nd of 51

$2.82

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.