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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Arkansas 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?

$8.51

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8.51 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6.61 from a physician practice, and about $8.51 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 6 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$6.61$4.37 to $11.22
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8.51$6.31 to $11.48

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9 · 10th to 90th $6 to $23Professionalmedian $7 · 10th to 90th $4 to $12
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $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
$8.51
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$46.77
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.17
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$12.02
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$5.50
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$8.51
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$9.12
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$14.45
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.24
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$8.71
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$6.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.55
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$12.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$9.33

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 9.3 times more in West Virginia than in Tennessee. 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.

Arkansas· 14th of 51

$8.51

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.