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Definitive Test for Buprenorphine

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 80348

A laboratory test that confirms whether buprenorphine — a medicine used to treat opioid dependence and, in some forms, pain — and its breakdown products are present in a sample, and can measure how much. Unlike a rapid screening cup, it identifies the specific substance rather than flagging a broad group. Results are used to check that a prescribed medicine is being taken as intended or to look into an unexpected screening result.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Definitive Test for Buprenorphine cost?

$18.20

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.20 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $21.88 from a physician practice, and about $15.14 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$21.88$21.88 to $25.12
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$15.14$9.77 to $25.12

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $15 · 10th to 90th $10 to $32Professionalmedian $22 · 10th to 90th $18 to $27
$0.1$1$10$100facility $15professional $22

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
$0.02
Median
$0.03
Typical High
$0.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$0.02
Typical High
$0.03
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$107.15
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$38.90
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$25.12
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$8.51
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$9.77
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$21.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$5.01
1 more rate 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
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$16.60

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3981.1 times more in Montana than in Tennessee. 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· 25th of 51

$18.20

MT $79.43TN $0.02

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.