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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Kansas 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?

$9.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.50 from a physician practice, and about $9.55 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$5.50$3.31 to $8.32
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9.55$9.12 to $13.49

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10 · 10th to 90th $9 to $14Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $3 to $11
$5$10$20facility $10professional $5

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
$5.62
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$17.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.17
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$5.89
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.39
Median
$3.39
Typical High
$3.39
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$14.45
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$8.32
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.89
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$12.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.39
Median
$12.88
Typical High
$12.88
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$18.62
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$10.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.31
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$12.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$11.48
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
$2.34
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$2.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.95
Median
$1.10
Typical High
$1.17

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 5th of 51

$9.12

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.