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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Mississippi 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?

$9.33

Typical negotiated rate. In Mississippi, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9.33 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $7.94 from a physician practice, and about $10.00 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 5 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$7.94$4.37 to $11.22
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10.00$5.89 to $39.81

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10 · 10th to 90th $5 to $78Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $4 to $12
$5$10$20$50facility $10professional $8

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
$10.47
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.17
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$12.02
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.75
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$3.89
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$9.12
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$7.94
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.80
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$11.22
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.51
Median
$5.89
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$7.59
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.29
Median
$3.80
Typical High
$11.22

Where Mississippi 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.

Mississippi· 10th of 51

$9.33

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.