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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Alaska rates for HCPCS 0119U

Estimates a person's risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event by measuring ceramides, a family of fats, in blood plasma. The levels are reported together with a cardiac risk score.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk cost?

$83.18

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $83.18 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $191 from a physician practice, and about $72.44 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 6 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$191$83.18 to $191
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$72.44$56.23 to $162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $72 · 10th to 90th $44 to $380Professionalmedian $191 · 10th to 90th $83 to $339
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $72professional $191

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
$208.93
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,023.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$120.23
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$100.00
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$269.15
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$338.84
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$190.55
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$151.36
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$83.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$251.19

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 20.4 times more in South Dakota than in Arkansas. 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.

Alaska· 22nd of 51

$83.18

SD $162AR $7.94

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.