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Laboratory Test For A Specific Stool Substance

Arizona rates for HCPCS 82653

This stool (fecal) test measures the level of a specific substance as part of evaluating a person's digestive health or diagnosing a medical condition. The exact substance measured depends on why the test was ordered.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Laboratory Test For A Specific Stool Substance cost?

$17.38

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.38 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $12.59 from a physician practice, and about $39.81 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$12.59$9.55 to $15.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$39.81$18.62 to $56.23

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $40 · 10th to 90th $12 to $79Professionalmedian $13 · 10th to 90th $10 to $23
$10$20$50$100facility $40professional $13

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$15.49
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$14.79
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$66.07
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$27.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$64.57
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$35.48
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$109.65
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$16.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$20.89
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$7.76
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$3.09
Median
$3.09
Typical High
$3.09

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 9.8 times more in Vermont than in Kentucky. 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.

Arizona· 48th of 51

$17.38

VT $155KY $15.85

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.