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Stool Test For Hidden Blood, For A Specific Medical Reason

New Jersey rates for HCPCS 82272

A stool sample is chemically tested for blood that isn't visible to the naked eye, using a color-change (guaiac) reaction. This version is done because of symptoms or another specific medical reason, rather than as part of routine, symptom-free colorectal cancer screening.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Stool Test For Hidden Blood, For A Specific Medical Reason cost?

$4.68

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4.68 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3.80 from a physician practice, and about $9.33 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 6 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$3.80$2.88 to $4.68
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9.33$5.37 to $19.50

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9 · 10th to 90th $4 to $48Professionalmedian $4 · 10th to 90th $3 to $8
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $9professional $4

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
$4.27
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$35.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.51
Median
$3.89
Typical High
$8.32
AmeriHealth
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$269.15
AmeriHealth
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.34
Median
$2.34
Typical High
$7.41
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$19.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.51
Median
$4.37
Typical High
$8.71
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.70
Median
$2.34
Typical High
$3.72
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$23,988.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.51
Median
$3.63
Typical High
$3.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$4.27
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.91
Median
$2.51
Typical High
$4.57

Where New Jersey sits

The same service costs 10.0 times more in West Virginia 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· 34th of 51

$4.68

WV $31.62DC $3.16

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.