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Double Lung Transplant With Bypass

Massachusetts 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?

$11,044

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11,044 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $7,413 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$7,413$5,370 to $13,490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$813 to $5,754

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $407 to $7,079Professionalmedian $7,413 · 10th to 90th $3,715 to $169,824
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $3,631professional $7,413

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
$2,691.53
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$8,912.51
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$10,715.19
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$12,302.69
Typical High
$169,824.37
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,897.79
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$10,964.78
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$7,079.46
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,128.61
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$7,585.78
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,073.80
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,248.07
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$14,454.40
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$10,715.19
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$12,302.69
Typical High
$169,824.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$19,054.61
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$7,079.46
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,019.95
8 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
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,949.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$6,918.31
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$6,918.31
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$8,912.51

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 16th of 51

$11,044

$7,413 physician + $3,631 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.