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Thyroid Hormone From A Dried Blood Spot

New Jersey 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?

$7.76

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.76 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.50 from a physician practice, and about $14.45 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$5.50$5.01 to $7.59
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$14.45$9.12 to $37.15

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $14 · 10th to 90th $6 to $89Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $4 to $19
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $14professional $5

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
$8.32
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$46.77
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$18.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$29.51
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.89
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$18.20
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.57
Median
$3.24
Typical High
$7.24
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$23,988.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.89
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$7.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$13.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$3.89
Typical High
$9.33

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 14th of 51

$7.76

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.