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Bone Marrow Fluid Sample Collection

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 38220

This procedure withdraws a small liquid sample of bone marrow, usually from the hip bone, using a needle. The sample is examined to evaluate blood-forming cells for conditions such as anemia, infection, or certain blood cancers.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Bone Marrow Fluid Sample Collection cost?

$1,433

Typical total for the visit. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,433 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $145 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,288 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$145$89.13 to $204
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,288$537 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $209 to $3,467Professionalmedian $145 · 10th to 90th $63 to $240
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $145

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
$169.82
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$239.88
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$3,162.28
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$275.42
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$269.15
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$316.23

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 20.2 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Louisiana· 32nd of 50

$1,433

$145 physician + $1,288 facility

IN $5,765WV $286

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.