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Recovery Of A Donor Heart For Transplant

Kentucky rates for HCPCS 33940

Covers removing the heart from an organ donor and cooling and preserving it so it can be carried to the hospital where a transplant is waiting. The work is done to a tight schedule, because a heart tolerates only a short time outside the body. Placing the heart into the recipient is a separate operation.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Recovery Of A Donor Heart For Transplant cost?

$1,905

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,905 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,905 from a physician practice, and about $1,820 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,905$1,820 to $2,239
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,820$562 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $380 to $9,120Professionalmedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $1,585 to $2,818
$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,820professional $1,905

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
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,511.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,511.89
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,398.83
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,456.54
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,897.79
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$794.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$8,511.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$8,317.64

Where Kentucky sits

The same service costs 158.5 times more in Colorado than in Hawaii. 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.

Kentucky· 11th of 51

$1,905

CO $4,677HI $29.51

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.