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Blood Flow Measurement Inside a Heart Artery

Alabama rates for HCPCS 93571

This covers using a specialized pressure- or flow-sensing wire inside an artery of the heart to determine how much a narrowing is limiting blood flow, sometimes combined with a medication that temporarily increases blood flow to get a clearer reading. The measurement helps a doctor decide whether a narrowing needs to be treated with a stent or other procedure, rather than relying on the image alone. This is performed during a heart catheterization.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Blood Flow Measurement Inside a Heart Artery cost?

$389

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $389 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $347 from a physician practice, and about $2,630 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$347$275 to $389
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,630$447 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $166 to $2,692Professionalmedian $347 · 10th to 90th $229 to $398
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $2,630professional $347

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
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$234.42
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$112.20
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,691.53
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work + 24 · Unrelated visit after surgery
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$316.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$173.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$316.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$134.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$251.19
2 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
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 4.3 times more in Wisconsin than in Oregon. 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· 13th of 51

$389

WI $776OR $182

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.