Packed red blood cells

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

RED BLOOD CELLS UNIT

Payers reporting HCPCS P9021

Payer pricing summary

Low

$98

Average

$364

Median

$318

High

$1.4k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	388	$158	$357	$373	105%	—	$1 – $2.1k
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	364	$176	$1.1k	$3.4k	314%	—	$1 – $28.7k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	296	$154	$330	$685	208%	—	$1 – $12.8k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	262	$155	$223	$155	70%	—	$26 – $1.2k
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	149	$181	$298	$273	92%	—	$89 – $1.6k
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	140	$150	$191	$151	79%	—	$1 – $1.5k
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	136	$150	$190	$103	54%	—	$85 – $635
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	110	$167	$497	$526	106%	—	$49 – $2.4k
9	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	94	$594	$661	$564	85%	—	$69 – $2.4k
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	93	$188	$281	$263	94%	—	$49 – $1.8k
11	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	77	$279	$285	$61	21%	—	$144 – $384
12	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	70	$151	$149	$18	12%	—	$92 – $169
13	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	62	$150	$151	$37	25%	—	$105 – $429
14	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	55	$193	$191	$124	65%	—	$32 – $653
15	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	49	$47	$98	$74	75%	—	$33 – $324
16	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	48	$144	$209	$142	68%	—	$82 – $654
17	Healthcare Highways percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms	45	$351	$484	$316	65%	—	$26 – $1.4k
18	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	39	$101	$107	$23	22%	—	$30 – $172
19	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	35	$279	$293	$162	56%	—	$1 – $1.1k
20	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	32	$222	$207	$27	13%	—	$144 – $242
21	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	30	$158	$156	$6	4%	—	$143 – $170
22	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	28	$148	$150	$5	4%	—	$144 – $181
23	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	25	$83	$115	$38	33%	—	$53 – $157
24	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	25	$187	$187	$37	20%	—	$141 – $245
25	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	25	$515	$594	$560	94%	—	$48 – $2.1k

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