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Recovery Of Donor Lungs For Transplant

Texas 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?

$977

Typical negotiated rate. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $977 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $832 from a physician practice, and about $3,090 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 8 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$832$832 to $1,096
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,090$1,000 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $794 to $9,333Professionalmedian $832 · 10th to 90th $832 to $1,349
$50.0$200.0$1.0K$5.0Kfacility $3,090professional $832

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
$870.96
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$12,302.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,348.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,862.09
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$56.23
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$7,413.10
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,398.83
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,398.83
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$9,332.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$19,498.45
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where Texas sits

The same service costs 13.2 times more in Wisconsin than in Louisiana. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Texas $977 · 23rd of 51
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.