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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Connecticut 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 Connecticut, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.47 from a physician practice, and about $23.44 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$10.47$8.71 to $11.22
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$23.44$15.85 to $34.67

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $23 · 10th to 90th $11 to $78Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $6 to $13
$5$10$20$50$100facility $23professional $10

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
$11.48
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$79.43
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$12.30
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$30.90
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$17.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$45.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$18.20
ConnectiCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$17.38
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$3.98
Typical High
$11.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$20.42

Where Connecticut 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.

Connecticut· 36th 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.