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Thyroid Hormone From A Dried Blood Spot

Louisiana 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?

$7.94

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.94 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $7.24 from a physician practice, and about $8.91 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$7.24$6.03 to $8.32
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8.91$7.41 to $16.98

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9 · 10th to 90th $6 to $23Professionalmedian $7 · 10th to 90th $4 to $13
$5$10$20facility $9professional $7

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
$6.92
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$23.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.90
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$13.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$12.88
Typical High
$23.99
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$12.59
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$40.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$4.37
Typical High
$7.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$7.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$3.72
Typical High
$9.12

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 12th of 51

$7.94

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.