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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Arizona 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?

$4.68

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4.68 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3.31 from a physician practice, and about $10.96 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$3.31$2.88 to $4.37
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10.96$5.37 to $17.38

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $11 · 10th to 90th $4 to $25Professionalmedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $6
$5$10$20$50$100facility $11professional $3

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
$4.27
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$28.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.72
Median
$3.72
Typical High
$6.46
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.75
Median
$3.80
Typical High
$3.80
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.09
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$21.38
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.88
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$6.61
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$15.49
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.63
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$8.32
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.07
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$100.00
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.16
Typical High
$4.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$12.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.24
Typical High
$5.75
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
$1.86
Median
$1.86
Typical High
$1.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.74
Median
$0.74
Typical High
$0.74

Where Arizona 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.

Arizona· 42nd of 51

$4.68

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.