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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Rhode Island 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?

$13.18

Typical negotiated rate. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13.18 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11.22 from a physician practice, and about $32.36 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 4 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$11.22$8.71 to $11.22
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$32.36$14.79 to $66.07

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $32 · 10th to 90th $13 to $68Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $7 to $19
$5$10$20$50facility $32professional $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
$31.62
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$67.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$11.22
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$21.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$17.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$48.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$17.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$22.91
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$20.89

Where Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island· 28th of 51

$13.18

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.