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Bone Marrow Fluid Sample Collection

Minnesota 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?

$1,195

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,195 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $240 to the doctor who performs it, and $955 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$240$148 to $389
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$955$457 to $2,138

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $166 to $4,898Professionalmedian $240 · 10th to 90th $100 to $550
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $955professional $240

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
$69.18
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$436.52
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$7,413.10
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$676.08
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,258.93
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$602.56
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$3,162.28
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$691.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$562.34

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 35th of 50

$1,195

$240 physician + $955 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.