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Double Lung Transplant With Bypass

Illinois 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?

$8,406

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,406 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $6,457 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$6,457$5,623 to $8,913
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$708 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $525 to $19,953Professionalmedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $4,467 to $10,471
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $1,950professional $6,457

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
$933.25
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$5,754.40
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$30,902.95
Median
$66,069.34
Typical High
$134,896.29
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,165.95
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$9,549.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$9,772.37
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$7,585.78
Typical High
$28,840.32
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$7,079.46
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$11,481.54
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
$2,238.72
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$2,884.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$3,981.07

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 26th of 51

$8,406

$6,457 physician + $1,950 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.