go back

Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

New Jersey 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?

$13.80

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13.80 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.77 from a physician practice, and about $25.70 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$9.77$6.92 to $12.30
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$25.70$14.13 to $72.44

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $26 · 10th to 90th $11 to $98Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $6 to $14
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $26professional $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
$10.96
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$14.13
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$7.94
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$52.48
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$32.36
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$13.18
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$25,118.86
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$10.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$25.12
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$11.48

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 26th of 51

$13.80

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.