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Macular Degeneration Variant Test For Zinc Advice

New Jersey rates for HCPCS 0205U

Helps decide whether someone with age-related macular degeneration should take zinc as part of a supplement regimen. Three specific variants across two genes, CFH and ARMS2, are read from a cheek swab, and the result is given as a single yes-or-no answer about zinc.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Macular Degeneration Variant Test For Zinc Advice cost?

$39.81

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $39.81 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $37.15 from a physician practice, and about $77.62 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$37.15$28.84 to $39.81
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$77.62$61.66 to $214

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $78 · 10th to 90th $47 to $468Professionalmedian $37 · 10th to 90th $25 to $54
$100$1K$10Kfacility $78professional $37

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
$60.26
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$53.70
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$213.80
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$102.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$25,118.86
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$46.77
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$95.50
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$47.86

Where New Jersey sits

The same service costs 3.4 times more in Alaska than in Nebraska. 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.

New Jersey· 38th of 51

$39.81

AK $105NE $30.90

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.