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Heart Transplant

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 33945

Replaces a failing heart with a donor heart. The chest is opened through the breastbone, a heart-lung machine takes over the circulation, the diseased heart is removed, and the donor heart is sewn into place. It is done for severe heart failure that no longer responds to medicines or other treatment.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Transplant cost?

$16,326

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16,326 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $7,413 to the doctor who performs it, and $8,913 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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 49 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$7,413$5,248 to $10,715
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$8,913$4,571 to $16,218

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,913 · 10th to 90th $2,188 to $28,184Professionalmedian $7,413 · 10th to 90th $4,365 to $19,498
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $8,913professional $7,413

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
$1,698.24
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$12,589.25
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$38,904.51
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,748.98
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$43,651.58
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$10,000.00

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 8.0 times more in Colorado than in Maryland. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Touch or drag across the chart to see any state's rate.

CO $47,506MD $5,909

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.