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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 October 2026.

How much does Sickle Cell Screening Test cost?

$6.31

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6.31 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $4.27 from a physician practice, and about $8.13 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$4.27$2.82 to $6.31
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8.13$8.13 to $8.32

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8 · 10th to 90th $6 to $8Professionalmedian $4 · 10th to 90th $2 to $6
$5$10$20facility $8professional $4

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$8.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.88
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$6.31
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.75
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$7.41
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$8.32
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work + 24 · Unrelated visit after surgery + 31 + 55 · Aftercare only + 99 · Multiple modifiers
Typical Low
$3.80
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$5.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$17.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.82
Median
$3.39
Typical High
$31.62
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$12.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.16
Typical High
$4.47
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$2.45
Median
$3.16
Typical High
$3.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.98
Median
$1.26
Typical High
$1.26

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 12.3 times more in Vermont than in Maryland. 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· 16th of 51

$6.31

VT $51.29MD $4.17

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.