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Conventional Cervical Slide, Screened Twice

Georgia rates for HCPCS 88153

Laboratory examination of a cervical screening (Pap) sample smeared directly onto a glass slide, in which a trained technologist reviews it and it is then reviewed a second time under a pathologist's supervision. The second look lowers the chance that a small number of abnormal cells is missed.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Conventional Cervical Slide, Screened Twice cost?

$21.38

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $21.38 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $19.05 from a physician practice, and about $28.18 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$19.05$13.49 to $32.36
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.18$19.95 to $44.67

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $28 · 10th to 90th $15 to $83Professionalmedian $19 · 10th to 90th $10 to $58
$10$20$50$100facility $28professional $19

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
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$42.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$22.91
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$83.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$53.70
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$72.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$93.33
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$75.86
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$51.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$67.61
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
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$11.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$3.24
Median
$3.24
Typical High
$4.57

Where Georgia sits

The same service costs 8.9 times more in Texas than in Kentucky. 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.

Georgia· 32nd of 51

$21.38

TX $120KY $13.49

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.