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Ceramide Blood Test For Heart Risk

Tennessee 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 Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $67.61 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $66.07 from a physician practice, and about $83.18 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 5 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$66.07$63.10 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$83.18$66.07 to $234

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $83 · 10th to 90th $50 to $398Professionalmedian $66 · 10th to 90th $50 to $83
$20$50$100$200facility $83professional $66

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
$63.10
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$67.61
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$239.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$128.82
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$83.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$83.18

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 32nd 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.