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Sickle Cell Screening Test

Rhode Island 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?

$5.89

Typical negotiated rate. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5.89 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.01 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 4 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$5.01$4.17 to $5.01
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$14.45$7.08 to $29.51

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $14 · 10th to 90th $6 to $31Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $3 to $9
$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
$14.45
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$31.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$5.01
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$9.77
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.09
Median
$4.17
Typical High
$8.32
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$22.91
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$8.32
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$10.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$3.98
Typical High
$9.55

Where Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island· 37th of 51

$5.89

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.