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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Missouri 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?

$6.61

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6.61 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.37 from a physician practice, and about $10.72 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$5.37$3.31 to $10.96
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10.72$7.08 to $18.62

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $11 · 10th to 90th $5 to $100Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $3 to $11
$5$10$20$50$100facility $11professional $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
$4.79
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$11.75
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$5.89
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$25.70
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$13.80
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$20.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$31.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$11.75
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$100.00
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.45
Median
$3.89
Typical High
$7.08
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$5.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$4.07
Typical High
$7.41
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
$2.34
Typical High
$3.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.93
Median
$0.95
Typical High
$1.26

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 13th of 51

$6.61

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.