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Blocked Heart Artery Risk Blood Score

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 0308U

Estimates how likely someone with symptoms such as chest pain is to have obstructive coronary artery disease, meaning heart arteries narrowed enough to limit blood flow. Three proteins in a blood plasma sample (troponin, adiponectin and KIM-1) are measured and combined with clinical information into a single risk score.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Blocked Heart Artery Risk Blood Score cost?

$479

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $479 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $468 from a physician practice, and about $537 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 4 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$468$372 to $501
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$537$468 to $1,023

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $537 · 10th to 90th $389 to $1,413Professionalmedian $468 · 10th to 90th $209 to $589
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $537professional $468

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
$416.87
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,412.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$794.33
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,951.21
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$562.34
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$389.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$416.87

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.3 times more in North Dakota 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.

Louisiana· 4th of 51

$479

ND $589NE $257

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.