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Conventional Cervical Slide, Screened Twice

Massachusetts 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?

$38.02

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $38.02 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $40.74 from a physician practice, and about $34.67 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$40.74$21.38 to $69.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$34.67$23.99 to $47.86

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $35 · 10th to 90th $18 to $76Professionalmedian $41 · 10th to 90th $11 to $120
$10$100$1Kfacility $35professional $41

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
$10.00
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$47.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$47.86
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$72.44
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$120.23
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$77.62
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$22.39
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$42.66
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$114.82
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$5,888.44
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$40.74
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$61.66
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$72.44
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$120.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$28.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$60.26
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$43.65
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$13.18
3 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
$5.01
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$23.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$2.00
Typical High
$9.55
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
QW · Waived lab test
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$37.15

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 6th of 51

$38.02

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.