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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Minnesota 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 Minnesota, 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 $224 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$83.18$75.86 to $95.50
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$224$83.18 to $331

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $224 · 10th to 90th $83 to $617Professionalmedian $83 · 10th to 90th $68 to $123
$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $224professional $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
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$67.61
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$169.82
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$616.60
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$162.18
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$398.11
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$177.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$186.21

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 18th 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.