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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Alabama rates for HCPCS 85660

This blood test checks whether red blood cells change into a sickle, or crescent, shape under low-oxygen conditions. It is used as a screening test for sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Sickle Cell Screening Test cost?

$6.31

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6.31 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.50 from a physician practice, and about $7.76 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$4.90 to $6.31
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7.76$6.31 to $10.00

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8 · 10th to 90th $5 to $21Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $4 to $11
$10.0$100.0$1.0Kfacility $8professional $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
$6.31
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$11.22
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.75
Median
$3.80
Typical High
$3.80
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$12.59
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.80
Median
$4.07
Typical High
$5.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$17.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.45
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$19.50
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.24
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$7.08
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.24
Typical High
$7.76

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 9.3 times more in West Virginia than in Tennessee. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Alabama $6.31 · 33rd of 51
WV $40.74TN $4.37

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.