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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Delaware 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?

$17.38

Typical negotiated rate. In Delaware, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.38 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $12.02 from a physician practice, and about $26.30 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 4 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$12.02$9.55 to $34.67
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$26.30$13.18 to $132

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $26 · 10th to 90th $10 to $339Professionalmedian $12 · 10th to 90th $9 to $126
$10$20$50$100$200facility $26professional $12

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
$9.55
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$125.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$7.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$21.38
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$77.62
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$16.22

Where Delaware 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.

Delaware· 10th of 51

$17.38

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.