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Recovery Of A Donor Heart For Transplant

South Dakota 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?

$2,188

Typical negotiated rate. In South Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,188 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,950 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 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$1,950$1,820 to $2,239
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,162$2,570 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,162 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $4,365Professionalmedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $1,820 to $2,754
$2K$5Kfacility $3,162professional $1,950

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. 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
$4,365.16
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,754.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$1,995.26
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,819.70

Where South Dakota 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 Dakota· 10th of 51

$2,188

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.