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Double Lung Transplant With Bypass

Kentucky 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?

$7,622

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,622 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $4,074 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,548 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$4,074$3,548 to $4,677
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,548$708 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,548 · 10th to 90th $457 to $10,715Professionalmedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $3,388 to $6,457
$100$1K$10Kfacility $3,548professional $4,074

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
$3,548.13
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$4,677.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$5,248.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$5,623.41
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,467.37
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$870.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$758.58
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$7,079.46
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$7,413.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$9,120.11
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$8,317.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$8,709.64
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
$2,290.87
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,630.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,047.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$3,630.78

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 31st of 51

$7,622

$4,074 physician + $3,548 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.