Blood draw fee cost in San Jose, CA — inpatient
In San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, 4 hospitals list a cash price for blood draw from a vein (venipuncture), collection fee only as an inpatient: from $6.50 to $39.76, with a median of $25.88. The lowest listed price is at El Camino Hospital — $19.38 less than the median here. Across California, the median is $26.52 at 97 hospitals.
Cash prices at 4 facilities across 4 cities for code 36415, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 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 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Camino Hospital lowest Mountain View, CA · (650) 940-7000 HC PHLEBOTOMY/VENIPUNCTURE | $6.50 | $26.00 | — | 75% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| Stanford Health Care Stanford, CA · (650) 723-4000 Collj Ven Bld Vnpnxr | $12.00 | $24.00 | $5.06–$20.09 | 50% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Jose San Jose, CA · (408) 972-7000 COLLECTION VENOUS BLOOD VENIPUNCTURE | $39.76 | $71.00 | — | 44% | — source file |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA · (408) 236-6400 COLLECTION VENOUS BLOOD VENIPUNCTURE | $39.76 | $71.00 | — | 44% | — source file |
| Stanford Health Care Stanford, CA · (650) 723-4000 HC Venipuncture | $44.80 | $112.00 | — | 60% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
Inpatient: lowest $6.50, median $25.88, highest $39.76 — a 6.1× difference within the same market.
As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $30.50 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.
Cash or insurance?
At the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated. 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 it is
This code is the fee for drawing blood from a vein with a needle. It covers the collection only, not any lab test run on the blood.
What the price covers
The price covers the draw itself. Each lab test run on the sample is billed under its own code.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 36415 ($18.71). 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.
| El Camino Hospital Mountain View, CAHC CDHP PRENATAL SCREENING DRAW FEE *2 | $1.50 | file |