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Blood Cleaning Through A Charcoal Filter

Alabama rates for HCPCS 90997

A treatment in which blood is drawn out of the body, passed through a cartridge packed with a binding material such as activated charcoal, and returned. The material traps toxins that would otherwise stay in the bloodstream.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Blood Cleaning Through A Charcoal Filter cost?

$91.20

Typical physician fee. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $91.20 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $87.10 to $110.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $603 · 10th to 90th $603 to $603Professionalmedian $91 · 10th to 90th $74 to $110
$100$200$500facility $603professional $91

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$602.56
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
12
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$125.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$112.20
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$123.03
4 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
$54.95
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$54.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$21.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$16.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$10.96

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in Alaska than in Florida. 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.

Alabama· 42nd of 51

$91.20

AK $229FL $74.13

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.