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Double Lung Transplant With Bypass

Louisiana 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?

$7,243

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,243 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $6,310 to the doctor who performs it, and $933 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$6,310$5,495 to $7,586
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$933$525 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $372 to $4,074Professionalmedian $6,310 · 10th to 90th $4,571 to $9,120
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $933professional $6,310

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
$676.08
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$6,025.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$9,120.11
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$7,585.78
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$9,549.93
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
$3,019.95
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$4,570.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,348.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$912.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$6,309.57

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 36th of 51

$7,243

$6,310 physician + $933 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.