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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Iowa 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?

$83.18

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $83.18 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $83.18 from a physician practice, and about $155 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$83.18$50.12 to $107
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$155$100 to $195

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $155 · 10th to 90th $83 to $245Professionalmedian $83 · 10th to 90th $50 to $200
$50$100$200facility $155professional $83

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
$93.33
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$234.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$234.42
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$199.53
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$151.36
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$398.11
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$218.78
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$102.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$213.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$100.00
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18
2 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
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 17th of 51

$83.18

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.