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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Georgia 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 October 2026.

How much does Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk cost?

$50.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $50.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $47.86 from a physician practice, and about $105 from a hospital or other facility.

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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$47.86$41.69 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$105$70.79 to $117

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $105 · 10th to 90th $54 to $186Professionalmedian $48 · 10th to 90th $29 to $83
$50$100$200facility $105professional $48

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$81.28
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$112.20
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$83.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$257.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$128.82
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$109.65
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$177.83
4 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$39.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$16.22
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$162.18

Where Georgia sits

The same service costs 8.5 times more in Alaska than in Alabama. 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.

Georgia· 43rd of 51

$50.12

AK $151AL $17.78

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.