Hemoglobin blood test

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

85018 BLOOD COUNT

Payers reporting CPT 85018

72 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	894	$2.41	$4.73	$0.05 – $320.28
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	815	$3.36	$9.02	$0.19 – $744.60
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	614	$2.41	$6.22	$1.10 – $169.00
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	608	$4.02	$9.16	$0.24 – $140.80
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	576	$5.21	$6.80	$1.08 – $182.00
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	357	$2.44	$2.86	$1.52 – $24.77
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	337	$2.72	$3.59	$0.02 – $197.03
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	254	$3.40	$6.67	$0.43 – $290.72
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	197	$2.37	$2.39	$2.32 – $2.67
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	169	$4.57	$4.96	$2.02 – $7.25
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	149	$2.38	$2.40	$1.42 – $4.04
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	138	$4.17	$4.20	$1.27 – $6.04
13	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	136	$38.63	$40.90	$0.19 – $195.00
14	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	135	$2.61	$7.26	$1.00 – $100.80
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	130	$2.37	$7.12	$1.24 – $352.32
16	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	124	$2.32	$3.15	$0.51 – $52.92
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	116	$3.05	$3.52	$1.08 – $25.60
18	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	106	$4.36	$56.49	$1.58 – $6,176
19	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	84	$2.37	$17.59	$2.32 – $214.82
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	78	$9.79	$26.79	$1.99 – $169.00
21	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	68	$2.37	$2.43	$1.27 – $5.56
22	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	65	$2.49	$18.51	$1.99 – $50.12
23	Medicare fee schedule · both · +19 other terms	63	$2.37	$2.49	$2.37 – $3.20
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	60	$2.57	$3.03	$0.30 – $13.68
25	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	50	$2.37	$3.09	$0.77 – $39.95

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