Calcium score test in New Mexico

What a calcium score costs in New Mexico

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 12 facilities we track in New Mexico, we list a price for 3. They run from $150 at Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque to $199, with a midpoint of $174 — above the $113 midpoint across every state we track.

1 New Mexico facility says it will book a scan without a referral.

Most of what we list in New Mexico belongs to a handful of operators: X-Ray Associates of New Mexico (4 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 New Mexico coverage spans 5 metro areas, deepest in Albuquerque with 6 facilities.

Insurers generally do not cover it as screening, which is why a cash price exists at all. New Mexico law requires some health plans to cover it: who qualifies, and which plans. 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.