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Exercise Challenge Test For Bronchospasm

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 94619

This service is an exercise-based breathing test used to check for bronchospasm - narrowing of the airways - triggered by physical exertion. The patient exercises for a period of time while lung function is measured before and after to detect airway narrowing consistent with exercise-induced bronchospasm.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Exercise Challenge Test For Bronchospasm cost?

$75.86

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $75.86 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $75.86 from a physician practice, and about $112 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$75.86$70.79 to $85.11
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$112$85.11 to $148

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $112 · 10th to 90th $66 to $182Professionalmedian $76 · 10th to 90th $65 to $102
$50$100$200facility $112professional $76

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
$79.43
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$95.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$36.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$69.18
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$85.11
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$29.51
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$56.23
Christus
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$21.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$104.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$34.67
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$69.18
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$165.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$123.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$38.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$83.18
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
$39.81
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$52.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$20.89

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.9 times more in Nebraska than in Utah. 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.

Louisiana· 34th of 51

$75.86

NE $155UT $31.62

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.