Calcium score test in Massachusetts

What a calcium score costs in Massachusetts

A coronary artery calcium scan — CPT 75571 — is a non-contrast CT of the chest, scored for calcified plaque in the coronary arteries: a few minutes on the table, no contrast dye, no recovery. What the number means, and what it costs nationally.

Of the 13 facilities we track in Massachusetts, we list a price for 3. They run from $150 at Lowell General Hospital Radiology — Main Campus in Lowell to $150, with a midpoint of $150 — above the $113 midpoint across every state we track.

1 Massachusetts facility says it will book a scan without a referral.

Most of what we list in Massachusetts belongs to a handful of operators: Tufts Medicine (3 locations), Baystate Health (3 locations), Mass General Brigham (2 locations). Prices inside one system are often the same at every site, so if the nearest one is inconvenient, a sister location is usually the same number. Our Massachusetts coverage spans 5 metro areas, deepest in Boston with 6 facilities.

Insurers generally do not cover it as screening, which is why a cash price exists at all. Ask for the self-pay price by CPT code, and make sure you are not quoted a CT angiogram instead — a different, contrast-based test that costs several times more.