RC 381

Packed red blood cell transfusion

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 LEUKO REDUCE EA

Payers reporting RC 381

Payer pricing summary

Low

$49

Average

$402

Median

$393

High

$1.6k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Medicaid facility · other · outpatient · +3 other terms	2	$75	$76	$10	13%	606–615	$53 – $87
2	Aetna other · outpatient · +16 other terms	16	$218	$119	$181	152%	1–10	$8 – $736
3	Tricare other · outpatient · +5 other terms	9	$256	$272	$149	55%	1–10	$130 – $654
4	Bcbs Mi facility · fee schedule · both	1	$69	$69	—	—	1–10	$69 – $69
5	UnitedHealthcare per diem · outpatient · +19 other terms	43	$743	$527	$352	67%	—	$135 – $1.5k
6	Cigna other · outpatient · +14 other terms	16	$187	$146	$205	141%	—	$10 – $790
7	Humana other · outpatient · +15 other terms	16	$155	$71	$90	127%	—	$2 – $338
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	14	$169	$176	$77	44%	—	$61 – $383
9	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	13	$269	$261	$114	44%	—	$149 – $483
10	Aetna Better Health other · outpatient · +2 other terms	10	$98	$50	$90	181%	—	$2 – $348
11	Amerihealth Caritas other · outpatient · +2 other terms	10	$98	$49	$88	179%	—	$2 – $338
12	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	10	$301	$332	$213	64%	—	$144 – $1.1k
13	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	10	$256	$271	$147	54%	—	$144 – $654
14	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	9	$292	$281	$124	44%	—	$188 – $512
15	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	8	$495	$487	$243	50%	—	$184 – $857
16	Bcbs Nj facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	8	$228	$226	$106	47%	—	$145 – $379
17	Bcbs Pa facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	8	$319	$318	$183	57%	—	$142 – $758
18	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	8	$479	$472	$343	73%	—	$148 – $1.2k
19	Sanford Health Plan fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	8	$275	$268	$120	45%	—	$177 – $483
20	Ucare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	8	$408	$399	$258	65%	—	$143 – $1.1k
21	Clover facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	7	$242	$240	$113	47%	—	$154 – $402
22	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	7	$342	$339	$159	47%	—	$218 – $569
23	Ambetter other · outpatient · +6 other terms	6	$200	$964	$1.7k	180%	—	$152 – $4.9k
24	Bcbs Ms fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	5	$105	$105	—	—	—	$105 – $105
25	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · both · +15 other terms	5	$313	$306	$228	75%	—	$41 – $674

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