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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Tennessee 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?

$11.48

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.33 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 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$9.33$8.71 to $12.88
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$61.66$17.38 to $102

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $62 · 10th to 90th $9 to $138Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $9 to $17
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $62professional $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
$9.12
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$144.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$27.54
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$7.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$15.85
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$47.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$17.38
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$77.62
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$11.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$16.22

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 44th of 51

$11.48

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.