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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 July 2026.

How much does Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk cost?

$110

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $110 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $83.18 from a physician practice, and about $158 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 7 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$83.18$50.12 to $162
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$158$83.18 to $219

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $158 · 10th to 90th $83 to $245Professionalmedian $83 · 10th to 90th $50 to $200
$50$100$200facility $158professional $83

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
$199.53
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$199.53
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$151.36
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$223.87
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$190.55
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$102.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$186.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$181.97
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 4th of 51

$110

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.