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Recovery Of Donor Lungs For Transplant

Colorado rates for HCPCS 32850

Covers removing the lungs from a deceased organ donor and cooling and preserving them so they can be taken to the hospital where a transplant is waiting. Timing is critical, because lungs tolerate only a short period outside the body. Placing the lungs into the recipient is a separate operation.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Recovery Of Donor Lungs For Transplant cost?

$5,495

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,495 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,000 from a physician practice, and about $10,715 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 6 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$1,000$832 to $5,012
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10,715$7,079 to $16,218

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,715 · 10th to 90th $3,311 to $24,547Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $832 to $5,012
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $10,715professional $1,000

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
$3,235.94
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$10,715.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$5,011.87
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,585.78
Median
$15,488.17
Typical High
$27,542.29
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,621.81
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$7,585.78
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,288.25

Where Colorado sits

The same service costs 13.2 times more in Wisconsin than in Louisiana. 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.

Colorado· 3rd of 51

$5,495

WI $10,965LA $832

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.