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Blood Cleaning Through A Charcoal Filter

Iowa 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 July 2026.

How much does Blood Cleaning Through A Charcoal Filter cost?

$115

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $115 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $112 from a physician practice, and about $166 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 7 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$112$89.13 to $174
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$166$110 to $204

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $166 · 10th to 90th $87 to $240Professionalmedian $112 · 10th to 90th $83 to $251
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $166professional $112

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
$120.23
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$138.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$234.42
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$295.12
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$239.88
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$933.25
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$239.88
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$239.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$117.49
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$245.47
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$158.49

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 2.3 times more in Minnesota than in West Virginia. 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.

Iowa· 9th of 51

$115

MN $200WV $87.10

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.