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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 July 2026.

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

$0.05

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $0.05 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $12.88 from a physician practice, and about $0.03 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$12.88$9.12 to $21.88
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$0.03$0.02 to $14.45

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $0 · 10th to 90th $0 to $25Professionalmedian $13 · 10th to 90th $0 to $22
$0.1$1$10facility $0professional $13

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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$0.02
Typical High
$0.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$0.03
Typical High
$0.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$26.30
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$26.92
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$51.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$25.12
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$21.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$10.23
Typical High
$22.39

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2630.3 times more in North Dakota than in Pennsylvania. 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· 48th of 51

$0.05

ND $79.43PA $0.03

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.