Reticulocyte and hemoglobin concentrate 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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

85046 RED BLOOD COUNT AUTOMATED

Payers reporting CPT 85046

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$29

Median

$22

High

$170

Payer rate distribution

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1	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	257	$6	$7	$8	115%	1,541	$1 – $197
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	765	$6	$8	$13	159%	620–647	$0 – $320
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	505	$8	$15	$27	177%	54–81	$1 – $1.0k
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	701	$6	$38	$382	1012%	24–33	$0 – $8.4k
5	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	87	$6	$7	$2	34%	21–30	$1 – $15
6	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	128	$9	$9	$3	30%	18	$3 – $16
7	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	510	$6	$13	$18	133%	17–26	$1 – $123
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	493	$11	$15	$14	93%	—	$3 – $129
9	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	303	$6	$6	$1	19%	—	$1 – $13
10	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	185	$6	$6	$0	2%	—	$5 – $6
11	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	184	$7	$10	$13	138%	—	$1 – $291
12	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	167	$11	$12	$4	34%	—	$1 – $17
13	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	132	$6	$6	$0	8%	—	$5 – $10
14	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	99	$6	$7	$3	44%	—	$3 – $21
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	90	$5	$6	$3	52%	—	$5 – $21
16	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	54	$6	$6	$1	10%	—	$3 – $8
17	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	53	$5	$5	$2	30%	—	$0 – $15
18	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	51	$9	$15	$25	164%	—	$5 – $121
19	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	51	$6	$6	$1	12%	—	$5 – $10
20	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	50	$6	$6	$1	19%	—	$4 – $8
21	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	49	$6	$6	$3	50%	—	$2 – $29
22	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	48	$6	$6	$0	2%	—	$6 – $6
23	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	47	$89	$50	$52	104%	—	$2 – $181
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	42	$7	$7	$2	32%	—	$1 – $14
25	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	38	$5	$6	$2	32%	—	$5 – $14

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