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Blood Protein Score For Heart Event Risk

New Jersey rates for HCPCS 0309U

Estimates a person's risk of a major cardiac event such as a heart attack. Four proteins in a blood plasma sample — NT-proBNP, osteopontin, TIMP-1 and KIM-1 — are measured and combined by a formula into a single risk score. The score is built from those four protein measurements alone, with no clinical details about the patient added in.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Blood Protein Score For Heart Event Risk cost?

$331

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $331 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $295 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 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$295$257 to $331
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$537$501 to $1,778

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $537 · 10th to 90th $380 to $3,890Professionalmedian $295 · 10th to 90th $209 to $513
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $537professional $295

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
$501.19
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$2,454.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$588.84
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$229.09
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$25,118.86
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$275.42
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$794.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$389.05

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 28th of 51

$331

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.