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Combined Heart And Lung Transplant

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 33935

An operation in which a patient's own heart and lungs are removed and replaced with a donor heart and lungs in the same procedure. It is performed for people whose heart and lung disease are both advanced, uses a heart-lung bypass machine, and is followed by intensive care and lifelong medication to prevent rejection.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Combined Heart And Lung Transplant cost?

$5,370

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,370 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6,918 from a physician practice, and about $3,162 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$6,918$5,754 to $7,586
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,162$1,202 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,162 · 10th to 90th $891 to $6,607Professionalmedian $6,918 · 10th to 90th $4,898 to $7,943
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,162professional $6,918

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,897.79
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$7,943.28
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$8,912.51
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$10,715.19

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.9 times more in Alaska than in Oklahoma. 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.

Louisiana· 42nd of 51

$5,370

AK $16,596OK $4,266

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.