Iron blood test

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC Iron

Payers reporting CPT 83540

72 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	892	$6.54	$11.12	$0.37 – $458.00
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	816	$8.32	$33.28	$0.41 – $8,450
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	610	$6.54	$15.70	$1.00 – $300.30
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	609	$10.69	$21.54	$0.50 – $475.02
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	572	$14.33	$17.46	$2.42 – $485.60
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	354	$6.66	$7.58	$3.81 – $67.23
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	331	$7.19	$8.77	$0.84 – $459.57
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	248	$9.27	$15.71	$1.17 – $270.95
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	197	$6.47	$6.54	$6.34 – $7.28
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	168	$12.51	$13.56	$5.08 – $19.80
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	152	$6.50	$6.57	$3.88 – $11.02
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	138	$10.62	$9.83	$4.21 – $32.13
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	133	$6.89	$18.33	$2.36 – $328.25
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	124	$6.09	$6.64	$3.38 – $28.73
15	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	123	$86.82	$93.87	$3.83 – $537.99
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	115	$7.60	$9.85	$1.08 – $186.93
17	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	115	$6.31	$7.68	$0.01 – $181.30
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	84	$6.47	$28.64	$6.34 – $320.07
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	76	$21.77	$57.69	$3.93 – $476.70
20	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	71	$10.87	$18.66	$4.31 – $136.02
21	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	69	$6.46	$6.57	$2.74 – $15.21
22	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	65	$6.79	$25.36	$5.43 – $137.10
23	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	63	$6.35	$7.30	$4.90 – $38.28
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	62	$6.66	$7.50	$0.85 – $18.94
25	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	51	$6.47	$7.19	$2.20 – $22.17

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