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Test Telling Apart Mirror-Image Forms of a Drug

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 80374

A laboratory test that separates the two mirror-image forms of a drug in a sample. Some substances exist in a pair of forms that are chemically identical but built the opposite way round, and an ordinary test cannot tell them apart. Distinguishing them can show whether a positive result comes from a legitimate medicine or from a different substance that breaks down to look the same.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Test Telling Apart Mirror-Image Forms of a Drug cost?

$21.88

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $21.88 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $13.18 from a physician practice, and about $51.29 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$13.18$9.12 to $21.88
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$51.29$16.22 to $51.29

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $51 · 10th to 90th $0 to $51Professionalmedian $13 · 10th to 90th $9 to $22
$0.1$1$10facility $51professional $13

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
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$26.92
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$21.88
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$7.41
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$14.45
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$51.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$25.12
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$5.01
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$22.39

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 20.9 times more in Alaska than in Georgia. 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· 16th of 51

$21.88

AK $100GA $4.79

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.