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Definitive Drug Test For Opioids

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 80364

A laboratory test that identifies and measures opioid medicines and closely related compounds in a urine or blood sample. It names which specific opioid is present and how much, rather than simply flagging that something from the opioid group may be there.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Definitive Drug Test For Opioids cost?

$19.50

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $19.50 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $21.88 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$21.88$21.88 to $21.88
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$15.49$8.32 to $26.30

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $15 · 10th to 90th $8 to $34Professionalmedian $22 · 10th to 90th $19 to $22
$0.1$1$10facility $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
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$40.74
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$21.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$7.41
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$8.32
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$40.74
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
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$14.45

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· 28th of 51

$19.50

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.