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Blood Plasma Treatment To Alter Cholesterol Particles

Georgia rates for HCPCS 0342T

Blood is drawn through a line, a machine separates the plasma from the blood cells, and the cholesterol-carrying particles in that plasma are chemically altered outside the body. The treated plasma is then returned to the patient during the same session. Blood leaves and returns through a continuous circuit, as in other therapeutic plasma treatments.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Blood Plasma Treatment To Alter Cholesterol Particles cost?

$1,202

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,202 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $692 from a physician practice, and about $2,692 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$692$676 to $1,995
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,692$1,202 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $724 to $7,586Professionalmedian $692 · 10th to 90th $562 to $1,995
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $692

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$7,585.78
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$3,630.78
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$457.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,318.26
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$501.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$67.61

Where Georgia sits

The same service costs 12.6 times more in Ohio 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.

Georgia· 30th of 51

$1,202

OH $2,692NE $214

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.