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Bone Marrow Fluid Sample Collection

North Carolina 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?

$816

Typical total for the visit. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $816 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $155 to the doctor who performs it, and $661 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$155$79.43 to $302
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$661$151 to $1,660

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $661 · 10th to 90th $66 to $5,248Professionalmedian $155 · 10th to 90th $65 to $575
$1$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $661professional $155

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
$66.07
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$5,248.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$707.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$338.84
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$295.12
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$426.58
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$4,365.16
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$302.00
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,949.84
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$6,918.31

Where North Carolina 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

North Carolina· 39th of 50

$816

$155 physician + $661 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.