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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 82553

This blood test measures a specific fraction of an enzyme that is released into the blood when heart muscle is damaged. It is used to help detect and monitor heart muscle injury, such as during a suspected heart attack.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Muscle Enzyme Test cost?

$17.78

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.78 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $15.14 from a physician practice, and about $20.89 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 7 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$15.14$8.71 to $20.89
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$20.89$16.98 to $79.43

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $21 · 10th to 90th $13 to $112Professionalmedian $15 · 10th to 90th $8 to $28
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $21professional $15

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
$17.78
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$117.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$31.62
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$23.99
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$18.20
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$19.05
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$11.48
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$30.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$12.88
Typical High
$18.20
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$27.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$13.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$19.50

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 3.5 times more in Nebraska 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.

Arkansas· 9th of 51

$17.78

NE $30.20DC $8.71

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.