Blood draw fee cost in Jackson, MS
In Jackson, MS, 11 hospitals list a cash price for blood draw from a vein (venipuncture), collection fee only: from $1.80 to $43.00, with a median of $11.07. The lowest listed price is at River Oaks Hospital — $9.27 less than the median here. Across Mississippi, the median is $8.00 at 58 hospitals.
- The median here, $11.07, is 34% below the US median of $16.83.
- That is 1.2× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($9.34).
- 2 of 11 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.
Cash prices at 11 facilities across 9 cities for code 36415, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Nov 9, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 30, 2025 and Sep 8, 2026.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Jackson, MS.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Oaks Hospital lowest Flowood, MS · (601) 932-1030 $ Contract Collection Charge Blood File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $1.80 | $10.00 | $1.01–$21.02 | 82% |
| Merit Health Womans Hospital Flowood, MS $ Contract Collection Charge Blood File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $2.10 | $10.00 | $1.16–$21.02 | 79% |
| Holmes County Hospital and Clinics Lexington, MS · (662) 834-1321 HC ROUTINE VENIPUNCTURE File of Sep 8, 2026 · source file | $4.40 | $11.00 | $3.60–$11.00 | 60% |
| Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Jackson, MS · (601) 968-1000 VENIPUNCTURE File of Feb 25, 2026 · source file | $6.72 | $32.00 | $1.26–$25.60 | 79% |
| S E Lackey Memorial Hospital Forest, MS · (601) 469-4151 Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample File of May 27, 2026 · source file | $8.00 | $8.00 | $0.75–$100.00 | — |
| S E Lackey Memorial Hospital Forest, MS · (601) 469-4151 Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample File of May 27, 2026 · source file | $10.00 | $10.00 | $2.57–$525.00 | — |
| Baptist Medical Center-Yazoo Yazoo City, MS · (662) 746-2261 VENIPUNCTURE File of Feb 17, 2026 · source file | $11.07 | $27.00 | $3.80–$24.30 | 59% |
| Ochsner Scott Regional Morton, MS · (601) 732-6301 HC VENIPUNCTURE/BL COLL File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $12.60 | $20.00 | $2.70–$16.00 | 37% |
| Simpson General Hospital Cah Mendenhall, MS · (601) 847-2221 Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample File of Apr 30, 2025 · source file | $14.00 | $20.00 | $2.57–$17.00 | 30% |
| Crossgates River Oaks Hospital Brandon, MS · (601) 825-2811 COLLECTION: Venous Draw Chg+1 more line at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $24.30 | $162.00 | $2.70–$162.00 | 85% |
| Merit Health Central Jackson, MS · (601) 376-1000 COLLECTION: Venous Draw Chg BCE+1 more line at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $26.70 | $178.00 | $2.70–$178.00 | 85% |
| Merit Health Womans Hospital Flowood, MS COLLECTION: Venous Draw Chg BCE+1 more line at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $38.64 | $184.00 | $2.70–$184.00 | 79% |
| River Oaks Hospital Flowood, MS · (601) 932-1030 COLLECTION: Venous Draw Chg+1 more line at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $39.60 | $220.00 | $2.70–$220.00 | 82% |
| Magee general hospital Magee, MS · (601) 849-5070 HC Chg Collection Venous Blood,Venipuncture+3 more lines at this price File of Aug 13, 2026 · source file | $43.00 | $43.00 | $9.34–$43.00 | — |
Outpatient: lowest $1.80, median $11.07, highest $43.00 — a 23.9× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 9 facilities here, median $6.72. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 10 of 11 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.
What blood draw fee is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Blood draw fee explained.
2 rows held back from this comparison
They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 36415 ($16.90). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.
| Hospital | Cash price | File |
|---|---|---|
| Crossgates River Oaks Hospital Brandon, MS$ Contract Collection Charge Blood | $1.50 | file |
| Merit Health Central Jackson, MS$ Contract Collection Charge Blood | $1.50 | file |