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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

North Carolina 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?

$17.38

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.38 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11.48 from a physician practice, and about $61.66 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$11.48$9.33 to $15.14
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$61.66$19.05 to $105

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $62 · 10th to 90th $10 to $132Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $9 to $33
$5$10$20$50$100facility $62professional $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
$9.77
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$33.11
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$7.94
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$50.12
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$10.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$52.48
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.03
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$17.78
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$21.38
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$22.39
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$30.20
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$20.42
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$16.22
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$77.62

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 11th of 51

$17.38

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.