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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Iowa 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?

$30.20

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $30.20 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $21.38 from a physician practice, and about $77.62 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$21.38$10.00 to $70.79
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$77.62$22.91 to $151

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $78 · 10th to 90th $11 to $1,349Professionalmedian $21 · 10th to 90th $9 to $74
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $78professional $21

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
$12.02
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$75.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$27.54
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$58.88
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$77.62
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$30.20
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$15.14
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$14.13
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$13,489.63
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$26.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$29.51
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$11.48

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 2nd of 51

$30.20

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.