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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Massachusetts 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?

$83.18

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 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 $145 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 $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$145$83.18 to $245

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $145 · 10th to 90th $8 to $355Professionalmedian $83 · 10th to 90th $8 to $166
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $145professional $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
$7.94
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$7.94
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$125.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$134.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$128.82
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$9,772.37
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$141.25
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$177.83
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$125.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$229.09

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 14th of 51

$83.18

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.