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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Iowa 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?

$12.88

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12.88 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $12.88 from a physician practice, and about $12.88 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 7 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$12.88$5.01 to $34.67
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$12.88$8.32 to $41.69

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $13 · 10th to 90th $5 to $62Professionalmedian $13 · 10th to 90th $4 to $36
$5$10$20$50$100facility $13professional $13

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
$15.14
Typical High
$83.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$37.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$10.23
Typical High
$12.88
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.03
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$50.12
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$17.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.31
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$14.45
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$6.76
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$6.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$12.59
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.31
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$13.80
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$5.50

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 5th of 51

$12.88

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.