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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Massachusetts 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?

$11.48

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11.48 from a physician practice, and about $28.84 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 9 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$11.48$10.47 to $13.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.84$16.22 to $39.81

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $29 · 10th to 90th $10 to $83Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $7 to $26
$5$10$20$50$100facility $29professional $11

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
$11.48
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$19.50
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$77.62
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$28.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$41.69
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$10.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$30.20
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$29.51
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$7,079.46
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$19.95
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$26.92
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$104.71
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$77.62
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$28.18
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$16.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$29.51

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 42nd of 51

$11.48

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.