C-reactive protein 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

86140 MEASUREMENT C-REACTIVE PROTEIN FOR DETECTION OF INFECTION OR INFLAMMATION

Payers reporting CPT 86140

71 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 · +37 other terms	892	$5.27	$9.01	$0.24 – $317.28
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	816	$6.65	$16.11	$1.00 – $247.05
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	608	$8.56	$16.90	$0.83 – $2,088
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	608	$5.27	$12.90	$1.10 – $225.55
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	575	$11.48	$14.44	$2.36 – $254.31
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	353	$5.34	$5.82	$3.11 – $33.42
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	329	$5.99	$7.10	$0.67 – $195.18
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	245	$7.10	$12.54	$0.94 – $288.00
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	197	$5.18	$5.23	$5.08 – $5.83
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	168	$10.01	$10.81	$4.14 – $15.85
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	152	$5.21	$5.23	$3.11 – $8.83
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	137	$8.50	$8.45	$3.37 – $55.10
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	131	$5.28	$9.87	$1.00 – $190.19
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	125	$5.18	$5.30	$2.71 – $17.61
15	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	122	$66.88	$71.45	$5.00 – $392.78
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	115	$6.68	$7.09	$1.08 – $44.80
17	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	111	$5.05	$7.14	$1.12 – $173.00
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	84	$5.18	$25.19	$5.08 – $286.70
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	75	$10.36	$33.31	$4.35 – $344.88
20	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	70	$7.87	$11.93	$3.15 – $50.97
21	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	68	$5.08	$5.98	$2.46 – $38.72
22	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	67	$5.18	$5.24	$2.78 – $14.33
23	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	65	$5.44	$20.63	$4.35 – $131.00
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	61	$5.23	$6.50	$0.68 – $37.21
25	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	56	$5.18	$6.01	$1.76 – $33.89

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