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Blood Test For Average Blood Sugar Level

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 83036

This blood test measures a form of hemoglobin that reflects average blood sugar levels over roughly the past two to three months, rather than the blood sugar level at a single moment. It's widely used to diagnose and monitor diabetes and prediabetes. A small blood sample is all that's needed.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Blood Test For Average Blood Sugar Level cost?

$17.78

Typical negotiated rate. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.78 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11.48 from a physician practice, and about $63.10 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$11.48$9.12 to $19.95
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$63.10$30.90 to $95.50

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $63 · 10th to 90th $12 to $129Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $7 to $26
$10$20$50$100$200facility $63professional $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
$26.30
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$25.70
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$17.78
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$16.60
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$40.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$14.79
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$19.50
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$17.38

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 10.0 times more in West Virginia than in Alabama. 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· 20th of 51

$17.78

WV $87.10AL $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.