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Recovery Of A Donor Heart For Transplant

North Carolina 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?

$1,585

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,585 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,862 from a physician practice, and about $1,023 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,862$60.26 to $1,862
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,023$575 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $380 to $7,244Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $46 to $1,862
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $1,023professional $1,862

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
$1,288.25
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$281.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$60.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$29,512.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$524.81
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,019.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$5,011.87

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 39th of 51

$1,585

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.