go back

Pregnancy Screening Blood Test With Risk Score

New Jersey 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?

$126

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $126 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $67.61 from a physician practice, and about $174 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$67.61$43.65 to $126
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$174$72.44 to $389

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $174 · 10th to 90th $54 to $7,413Professionalmedian $68 · 10th to 90th $36 to $501
$100$1K$10Kfacility $174professional $68

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
$69.18
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$501.19
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$77.62
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$32.36
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$23,988.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$47.86
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$112.20
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$53.70

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 1st of 51

$126

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.