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Genetic Test For Medication Response

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 0029U

A genetic test that looks at inherited differences affecting how a person's body handles or responds to medicines. The findings help the prescriber pick a drug and a dose more likely to work well and less likely to cause side effects.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Genetic Test For Medication Response cost?

$661

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $661 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $692 from a physician practice, and about $646 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$692$447 to $813
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$646$575 to $832

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $646 · 10th to 90th $468 to $1,148Professionalmedian $692 · 10th to 90th $447 to $1,660
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $646professional $692

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$3,548.13
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$3,715.35
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$831.76
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,122.02
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$9,772.37
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,258.93
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,288.25
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$3,548.13
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$891.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,288.25

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 4.5 times more in Alaska than in West Virginia. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Massachusetts· 36th of 51

$661

AK $1,660WV $372

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.