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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

South 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?

$16.22

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16.22 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.33 from a physician practice, and about $37.15 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 5 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$9.33$8.91 to $12.02
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$37.15$16.22 to $83.18

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $37 · 10th to 90th $9 to $138Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $9 to $32
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $37professional $9

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
$8.91
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$144.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$32.36
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$147.91
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$23.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$93.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$16.60
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$23.99
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$13.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$16.22

Where South 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.

South Carolina· 14th of 51

$16.22

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.