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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Maryland 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?

$11.22

Typical negotiated rate. In Maryland, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11.22 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.47 from a physician practice, and about $36.31 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 6 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$10.47$8.71 to $13.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$36.31$13.80 to $42.66

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $36 · 10th to 90th $9 to $110Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $8 to $41
$5$10$20$50$100facility $36professional $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
$10.23
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$44.67
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.34
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$10.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$14.79
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$28.18
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$22.39
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$4.79
Typical High
$8.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$10.96
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$17.38

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 47th of 51

$11.22

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.