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Confirming Lab Test For Specific Drugs

North Carolina rates for HCPCS 80351

A laboratory analysis that detects particular drugs or their breakdown products in a urine or blood sample and names each one found. Unlike a rapid screening check, it distinguishes closely related substances from one another and can measure how much is present. It supports treatment monitoring, pain management, and substance-use care.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Confirming Lab Test For Specific Drugs cost?

$19.95

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $19.95 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $18.62 from a physician practice, and about $19.95 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

Few insurers publish rates for this combination, so treat this figure as a rough guide.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$18.62$10.23 to $75.86
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$19.95$10.00 to $50.12

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $20 · 10th to 90th $0 to $50Professionalmedian $19 · 10th to 90th $10 to $76
$0.1$1$10$100facility $20professional $19

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.03
Median
$0.03
Typical High
$0.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$50.12
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.23
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$75.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$26.92
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$15.49
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$16.98
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$20.42
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$16.60
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$85.11

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 16th of 51

$19.95

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.