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Blood Plasma Treatment To Alter Cholesterol Particles

North Carolina 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?

$1,047

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,047 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $851 from a physician practice, and about $3,388 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$851$316 to $1,622
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,388$1,950 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $646 to $10,715Professionalmedian $851 · 10th to 90th $100 to $2,042
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,388professional $851

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
$389.05
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$676.08
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$11,220.18
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$5,754.40
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,585.78
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$912.01
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$15,848.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,318.26
6 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
$120.23
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$331.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$501.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$66.07
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$467.74

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 31st of 51

$1,047

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.