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Heart Transplant Rejection Blood Test

North Carolina rates for HCPCS 81595

A blood test for people living with a transplanted heart that measures how active a set of genes is in immune cells and turns the pattern into a score showing how likely the body is to be rejecting the organ. A reassuring score can spare the patient a biopsy of the heart muscle, which requires threading a catheter into the heart. It is used for routine monitoring rather than for diagnosing a rejection episode already underway.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Heart Transplant Rejection Blood Test cost?

$2,630

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,630 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,570 from a physician practice, and about $7,079 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$2,570$1,349 to $3,548
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,079$2,692 to $10,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,079 · 10th to 90th $2,570 to $14,791Professionalmedian $2,570 · 10th to 90th $76 to $7,079
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $7,079professional $2,570

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,677.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,128.31
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$8,912.51
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$7,413.10
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$14,791.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$4,365.16
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$3,890.45
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$3,235.94
3 more rates 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
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,737.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$691.83
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$4,466.84

Where North Carolina sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in Alaska than in Alabama. 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.

North Carolina· 31st of 51

$2,630

AK $7,244AL $1,349

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.