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Double Lung Transplant With Bypass

Colorado rates for HCPCS 32854

Replacement of both of a patient's lungs with donor lungs, with the heart-lung machine taking over the circulation and gas exchange during the operation. Support from the machine is used when the patient cannot tolerate having the lungs worked on one at a time. It is offered for end-stage lung disease affecting both sides.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Double Lung Transplant With Bypass cost?

$25,539

Typical total for the visit. In Colorado, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $25,539 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $6,918 to the doctor who performs it, and $18,621 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$6,918$5,623 to $9,120
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$18,621$3,548 to $25,119

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $18,621 · 10th to 90th $1,096 to $40,738Professionalmedian $6,918 · 10th to 90th $4,786 to $10,715
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $18,621professional $6,918

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,888.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15,848.93
Median
$20,892.96
Typical High
$50,118.72
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$7,585.78
Typical High
$11,220.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$9,772.37
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$10,964.78
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$9,332.54
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$9,332.54
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$7,762.47
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$11,220.18
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$2,884.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$851.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$3,981.07

Where Colorado sits

The same service costs 8.4 times more in Wisconsin than in Texas. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Colorado· 2nd of 51

$25,539

$6,918 physician + $18,621 facility

WI $28,671TX $3,407

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.