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Blood Screening Score For Colorectal Cancer

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 0163U

Screens for colorectal cancer and for advanced pre-cancerous growths in the bowel using a blood sample. Three proteins — Cripto-1, carcinoembryonic antigen and an extracellular matrix protein — are measured in plasma or serum and combined with the person's age, sex and screening history into a single likelihood figure.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Blood Screening Score For Colorectal Cancer cost?

$257

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $257 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $257 from a physician practice, and about $389 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$257$234 to $355
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$389$251 to $933

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $389 · 10th to 90th $234 to $1,023Professionalmedian $257 · 10th to 90th $234 to $631
$200$500$1Kfacility $389professional $257

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
$275.42
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,949.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$257.04
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$575.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$645.65
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$933.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$1,862.09
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$426.58
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$389.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$776.25

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 2.3 times more in North Dakota than in Florida. 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.

Nebraska· 49th of 51

$257

ND $589FL $251

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.