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Recovery Of A Donor Heart For Transplant

South 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 July 2026.

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

$1,862

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,862 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,862 from a physician practice, and about $6,761 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 5 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$1,862$1,862 to $1,862
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,761$1,862 to $21,878

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,761 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $22,909Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $1,862
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $6,761professional $1,862

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
$1,862.09
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$22,908.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$371.54
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$3,981.07
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$54.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$9,120.11

Where South Carolina sits

The same service costs 6.3 times more in Wisconsin than in Alabama. 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.

South Carolina· 33rd of 51

$1,862

WI $11,482AL $1,820

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.