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Felbamate Drug Level

Alabama rates for HCPCS 80167

Measures how much felbamate, a medicine used to control difficult epilepsy, is present in a blood sample. The level is checked to confirm the dose is in a useful range, particularly when seizures continue or when other medicines that interact with it are started or stopped.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Felbamate Drug Level cost?

$15.14

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $15.14 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11.22 from a physician practice, and about $15.49 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$11.22$7.76 to $21.38
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$15.49$15.14 to $15.49

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $15 · 10th to 90th $15 to $16Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $8 to $21
$10$20$50facility $15professional $11

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
$21.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$28.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$21.38
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$15.49
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work + 24 · Unrelated visit after surgery + 31 + 55 · Aftercare only + 99 · Multiple modifiers
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$14.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$60.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$21.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$18.62
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$11.22
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
$7.59
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$10.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$3.09
Median
$4.27
Typical High
$4.27

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 3.7 times more in Alaska 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.

Alabama· 28th of 51

$15.14

AK $41.69NE $11.22

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.