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Thyroid Hormone From A Dried Blood Spot

Massachusetts 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?

$6.76

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6.76 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6.46 from a physician practice, and about $15.85 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 8 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$6.46$6.17 to $9.77
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$15.85$9.12 to $19.50

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $16 · 10th to 90th $6 to $30Professionalmedian $6 · 10th to 90th $5 to $19
$10$100$1Kfacility $16professional $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
$6.17
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$30.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$28.84
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$100.00
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.24
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$15.85
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$25.12
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.03
Median
$6.03
Typical High
$8.32
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$10.23
Typical High
$16.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$16.98
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$7,079.46
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$10.96
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$19.50
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$100.00
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.24
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$15.85
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.72
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$16.60

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 28th of 51

$6.76

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.