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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Washington, DC 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?

$8.71

Typical negotiated rate. In Washington, DC, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8.71 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.71 from a physician practice, and about $53.70 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 5 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$8.71$8.71 to $8.71
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$53.70$13.80 to $204

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $54 · 10th to 90th $9 to $214Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $9 to $35
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $54professional $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
$53.70
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$8.71
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$128.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$43.65
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$89.13
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$23.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$28.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$16.60

Where Washington, DC 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.

Washington, DC· 51st of 51

$8.71

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.