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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Georgia 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?

$13.18

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13.18 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.00 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 8 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$10.00$7.76 to $13.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$20.89$13.49 to $123

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $21 · 10th to 90th $10 to $191Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $6 to $22
$5$20$100$500facility $21professional $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
$10.47
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$22.39
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$7.08
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$20.89
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$23.44
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$7.24
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$11.48
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$35.48
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$24.55
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$42.66
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$8,128.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$14.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$16.22

Where Georgia 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.

Georgia· 30th of 51

$13.18

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.