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Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Test

Louisiana 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?

$61.66

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $61.66 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $51.29 from a physician practice, and about $200 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$51.29$47.86 to $60.26
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$200$64.57 to $339

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $200 · 10th to 90th $33 to $537Professionalmedian $51 · 10th to 90th $42 to $76
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $200professional $51

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
$58.88
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$660.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$45.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$25.70
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$56.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.88
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$416.87
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$57.54
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$38.02
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$20.89
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$199.53
Christus
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$199.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$72.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$47.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$28.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$87.10
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$56.23
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$31.62
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
$24.55
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$30.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$12.02

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 29th of 51

$61.66

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.