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Pregnancy Screening Blood Test With Risk Score

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 81508

A blood test taken from the mother during pregnancy that measures pregnancy-related proteins made by the placenta and baby. The results are combined by a computer with other information about the pregnancy and reported as a risk score for certain chromosome differences. It estimates risk; it does not diagnose anything.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Pregnancy Screening Blood Test With Risk Score cost?

$66.07

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $66.07 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $60.26 from a physician practice, and about $74.13 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 4 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$60.26$41.69 to $66.07
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$74.13$64.57 to $141

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $74 · 10th to 90th $54 to $200Professionalmedian $60 · 10th to 90th $27 to $74
$20$50$100$200facility $74professional $60

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
$57.54
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$97.72
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$169.82
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$60.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$61.66
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$53.70
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$57.54

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in New Jersey than in Washington, DC. 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· 13th of 51

$66.07

NJ $126DC $40.74

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.