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Recovery Of Donor Lungs For Transplant

Wisconsin 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?

$10,965

Typical negotiated rate. In Wisconsin, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10,965 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $832 from a physician practice, and about $12,303 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 9 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 $832
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$12,303$10,000 to $16,218

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $12,303 · 10th to 90th $5,623 to $20,417Professionalmedian $832 · 10th to 90th $832 to $1,585
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $12,303professional $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
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$17,782.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$831.76
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,120.11
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$20,892.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,905.46
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$3,715.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$1,905.46
DeanCare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$14,454.40
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$9,549.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$7,244.36
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$831.76
Prevea360
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,778.28
Quartz
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$7,413.10
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$20,892.96

Where Wisconsin 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.

Wisconsin· 1st of 51

$10,965

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.