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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Colorado 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?

$11.48

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.91 from a physician practice, and about $33.11 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$8.91$8.71 to $10.96
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$33.11$16.60 to $53.70

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $33 · 10th to 90th $10 to $87Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $6 to $11
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $33professional $9

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
$8.71
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$11.48
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$58.88
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$4.79
Typical High
$8.91
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$30.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$13.80
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$23.99
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$72.44
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$23.99
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$11.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$17.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$10.96

Where Colorado 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.

Colorado· 41st of 51

$11.48

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.