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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Alabama 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?

$35.48

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $35.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $7.94 from a physician practice, and about $53.70 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$7.94$7.94 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$53.70$20.89 to $95.50

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $54 · 10th to 90th $18 to $95Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $8 to $120
$10$20$50$100facility $54professional $8

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
$83.18
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$151.36
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$26.92
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$54.95
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$120.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$83.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$83.18

Where Alabama 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.

Alabama· 45th of 51

$35.48

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.