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Blood Cleaning Through A Charcoal Filter

Nebraska 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?

$195

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $195 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $182 from a physician practice, and about $1,622 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$182$155 to $219
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,622$347 to $2,138

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $182 to $3,631Professionalmedian $182 · 10th to 90th $135 to $933
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,622professional $182

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
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$95.50
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,981.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$213.80
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$524.81
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$933.25
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$234.42
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$234.42
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$229.09
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
$41.69
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$47.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$19.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$14.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$9.55

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 2nd of 51

$195

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.