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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Kentucky 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?

$67.61

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $67.61 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $67.61 from a physician practice, and about $105 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$67.61$57.54 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$105$69.18 to $200

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $105 · 10th to 90th $66 to $200Professionalmedian $68 · 10th to 90th $46 to $115
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $105professional $68

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
$66.07
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$83.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$64.57
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$46,773.51
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$1,548.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$177.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$407.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$83.18

Where Kentucky 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.

Kentucky· 33rd of 51

$67.61

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.