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

National pricing summary

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Low

$24

Average

$499

Median

$409

High

$3.3k

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Price distribution

Percent of billed charges methodology

Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 1000 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 5.2× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.

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Hospitals reporting HCPCS P9021

#	Hospital
1	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Baldwin Park BALDWIN PARK, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	744	$38 – $109
2	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Downey Downey, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	647	$38 – $109
3	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - West La LOS ANGELES, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	619	$38 – $109
4	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Riverside RIVERSIDE, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	526	$38 – $109
5	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Panorama City PANORAMA CITY, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	455	$38 – $109
6	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Fontana FONTANA, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	418	$38 – $109
7	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South Bay HARBOR CITY, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	398	$38 – $109
8	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Diego - Zion SAN DIEGO, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	390	$38 – $109
9	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Ontario ONTARIO, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	336	$38 – $109
10	Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Woodland Hills WOODLAND HILLS, CA	$45	$64	$32	50%	319	$38 – $109

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HCPCS P9021