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Chloride Injection

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS J3480

Injection, potassium chloride, per 2 mEq

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Chloride Injection cost?

$0.16

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $0.16 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $0.13 from a physician practice, and about $0.65 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 9 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$0.13$0.13 to $0.13
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$0.65$0.17 to $2.19

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1 · 10th to 90th $0 to $4Professionalmedian $0 · 10th to 90th $0 to $0
$0.1$1$10facility $1professional $0

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
$0.18
Median
$1.26
Typical High
$4.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.05
Median
$0.13
Typical High
$0.13
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.13
Median
$0.43
Typical High
$1.12
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.12
Median
$0.14
Typical High
$1.12
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.13
Median
$0.13
Typical High
$0.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.17
Median
$0.27
Typical High
$0.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.13
Median
$0.13
Typical High
$0.14
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.13
Median
$0.19
Typical High
$6,918.31
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.13
Median
$0.13
Typical High
$0.22
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.79
Median
$3.55
Typical High
$17.78
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.13
Median
$0.43
Typical High
$1.12
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.12
Median
$0.14
Typical High
$1.12
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.12
Median
$0.28
Typical High
$0.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.12
Median
$0.12
Typical High
$1.12

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 55.0 times more in South Carolina than in Vermont. 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· 42nd of 51

$0.16

SC $7.08VT $0.13

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.