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Fingerstick Blood Panel For Medication Classes

Alabama rates for HCPCS 0054U

Measures medications and drugs in a small blood sample to check what someone has been taking. At least 14 classes of drug are covered — the count is of drug classes, not of individual drugs, so each class may take in several substances — and each is measured by mass spectrometry. The sample is a fingerstick capillary collection rather than a full draw from a vein.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Fingerstick Blood Panel For Medication Classes cost?

$135

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $135 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $141 from a physician practice, and about $126 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 4 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$141$100 to $229
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$126$17.78 to $229

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $126 · 10th to 90th $15 to $229Professionalmedian $141 · 10th to 90th $89 to $229
$20$50$100$200facility $126professional $141

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
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$22.91
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$128.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$97.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$147.91
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$165.96

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 3.8 times more in South Dakota than in Georgia. 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.

Alabama· 40th of 51

$135

SD $380GA $100

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.