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Blood Cleaning Through A Charcoal Filter

Massachusetts 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?

$100

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $100 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $102 from a physician practice, and about $85.11 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$102$85.11 to $170
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$85.11$52.48 to $97.72

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $85 · 10th to 90th $41 to $135Professionalmedian $102 · 10th to 90th $78 to $234
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $85professional $102

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
$89.13
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$89.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$229.09
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$245.47
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$131.83
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$134.90
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$213.80
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$977.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$239.88

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 21st of 51

$100

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.