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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

West Virginia 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?

$15.49

Typical negotiated rate. In West Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $15.49 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.33 from a physician practice, and about $28.84 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$8.71 to $10.96
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.84$17.38 to $120

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $29 · 10th to 90th $10 to $155Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $6 to $14
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $29professional $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
$9.55
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$13.49
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$15.49
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$13.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$34.67
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$58.88
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$165.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$4.79
Typical High
$13.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$5.25
Typical High
$15.14

Where West Virginia 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.

West Virginia· 15th of 51

$15.49

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.