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Bone Marrow Fluid Sample Collection

Michigan 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?

$2,085

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,085 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $135 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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$135$69.18 to $166
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$186 to $3,548

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $87 to $4,898Professionalmedian $135 · 10th to 90th $60 to $191
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,950professional $135

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
$87.10
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$85.11
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$134.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$275.42
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$245.47
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$501.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$5,370.32
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$239.88

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 22nd of 50

$2,085

$135 physician + $1,950 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.