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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Massachusetts 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?

$7.76

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.76 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.50 from a physician practice, and about $14.79 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 9 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$5.50$5.25 to $8.32
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$14.79$9.33 to $23.99

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $15 · 10th to 90th $5 to $62Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $5 to $17
$10.0$100.0$1.0K$10.0Kfacility $15professional $5

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
$5.50
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.90
Median
$5.25
Typical High
$24.55
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$100.00
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$13.49
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$21.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.13
Median
$5.13
Typical High
$7.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$14.45
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.39
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$14.45
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$7,079.46
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$9.33
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$16.60
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$33.11
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$100.00
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$13.49
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.31
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$8.91
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$14.13

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 9.3 times more in West Virginia than in Tennessee. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Massachusetts $7.76 · 16th of 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.