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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Minnesota 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 Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5.50 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.50 from a physician practice, and about $14.45 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$5.50$5.50 to $7.41
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$14.45$6.03 to $38.90

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $14 · 10th to 90th $5 to $50Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $4 to $34
$5$10$20$50$100facility $14professional $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
$5.13
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$56.23
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$11.22
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$5.50
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$50.12
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$10.47
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$39.81
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$10.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$100.00
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$39.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$19.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.75
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$12.30

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 41st 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.