CPT 85536

Iron stain of peripheral blood smear

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

Iron Stain Peripheral Blood

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$12

Median

High

$81

Payer rate distribution

Filter by billing methodology

All methodologies Case rate 34 Fee schedule 58 Per diem 3 Percent of billed charges 38 Other 23

Filter by billing class

#
1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	645	$7	$7	$5	64%	—	$2 – $145
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	612	$7	$45	$420	936%	—	$0 – $8.4k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	445	$7	$15	$18	118%	—	$5 – $86
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	427	$13	$16	$11	68%	—	$3 – $68
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	402	$10	$16	$16	97%	—	$1 – $146
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	269	$7	$7	$1	19%	—	$5 – $22
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	240	$8	$8	$4	45%	—	$1 – $36
8	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	194	$7	$7	$0	3%	—	$7 – $8
9	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	163	$13	$15	$5	33%	—	$7 – $21
10	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	151	$10	$15	$14	91%	—	$3 – $87

Page 1 of 6 · 58 payers

← Hospitals reporting CPT 85536 · Snapshot 20261113T090226Z-3ce6c0b8