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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Kentucky 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?

$10.72

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.72 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.33 from a physician practice, and about $56.23 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$9.33$5.75 to $11.48
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$56.23$14.13 to $219

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $56 · 10th to 90th $10 to $245Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $5 to $15
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $56professional $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
$9.55
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$15.14
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$12.02
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$4.79
Typical High
$9.12
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$16.22
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$19.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$24.55
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$58.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$28.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$16.22

Where Kentucky 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.

Kentucky· 50th of 51

$10.72

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.