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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Maryland 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?

$5.50

Typical negotiated rate. In Maryland, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5.50 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $4.57 from a physician practice, and about $23.99 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$4.57$4.07 to $5.50
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$23.99$20.42 to $30.20

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $24 · 10th to 90th $4 to $32Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $3 to $20
$5$10$20facility $24professional $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
$4.07
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$31.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.63
Median
$4.90
Typical High
$20.42
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.62
Median
$4.37
Typical High
$5.37
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.95
Median
$3.80
Typical High
$7.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$13.80
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$10.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.16
Typical High
$12.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.45
Median
$3.24
Typical High
$5.25
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.14
Median
$3.80
Typical High
$8.32

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 38th of 51

$5.50

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.