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Daily Lung Support Machine Management

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 33948

The medical team's day-by-day management of a patient supported by an external machine that adds oxygen to the blood and removes carbon dioxide, with blood drawn from a vein and returned to a vein. The patient's own heart continues to do the pumping. This covers one day of adjusting flows, gas settings, blood thinning and monitoring, and is charged for each day support continues.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Daily Lung Support Machine Management cost?

$2,239

Typical total for the visit. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,239 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $501 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,738 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$501$407 to $562
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,738$603 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,738 · 10th to 90th $490 to $19,498Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $295 to $676
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $1,738professional $501

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
$223.87
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$501.19
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13,489.63
Median
$18,197.01
Typical High
$37,153.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$724.44
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$3,715.35
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,698.24
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$724.44
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$501.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$676.08

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 7.1 times more in Alaska than in Montana. 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

Nebraska· 12th of 51

$2,239

$501 physician + $1,738 facility

AK $5,199MT $735

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.