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Thyroid Hormone From A Dried Blood Spot

Alabama rates for HCPCS 84437

Measures thyroxine, the main hormone made by the thyroid gland, in blood that has been dried onto a filter paper card. The sample has to be soaked back out of the paper before it can be measured. This is the form used for newborn screening, where a few drops from a heel prick are collected on a card.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Thyroid Hormone From A Dried Blood Spot cost?

$7.41

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.41 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6.17 from a physician practice, and about $9.77 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$6.17$4.68 to $7.41
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9.77$7.41 to $20.42

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10 · 10th to 90th $6 to $25Professionalmedian $6 · 10th to 90th $4 to $7
$5$10$20facility $10professional $6

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
$6.46
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$10.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$7.41
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$27.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$6.61
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.13
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$20.42
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.88
Median
$3.98
Typical High
$23.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.24
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$7.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$3.72
Typical High
$9.12

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 3.2 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.

Alabama· 18th of 51

$7.41

NE $15.49DC $4.79

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.