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Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Test

Alabama rates for HCPCS 59025

This is a prenatal test that monitors the baby's heart rate over a period of time to see how it responds to the baby's own movements, without using medication to cause contractions. A reassuring pattern of heart rate changes suggests the baby is getting enough oxygen.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Test cost?

$69.18

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $69.18 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $52.48 from a physician practice, and about $269 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$52.48$45.71 to $69.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$269$269 to $269

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $269 · 10th to 90th $79 to $871Professionalmedian $52 · 10th to 90th $41 to $69
$20$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $269professional $52

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
$44.67
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$40.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$27.54
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$54.95
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
12
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$67.61
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$72.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$44.67
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$26.92
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$69.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$43.65
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$25.70
2 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
$33.88
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$33.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$13.80

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 6.5 times more in Minnesota than in Kentucky. 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.

Alabama· 18th of 51

$69.18

MN $295KY $45.71

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.