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Stem Cell Transplant From a Donor

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 38240

Infuses blood-forming stem cells collected from a donor into a patient through a vein, after treatment has cleared space in the bone marrow. The cells travel to the marrow, settle there, and rebuild the blood and immune system over the following weeks. It is used for blood cancers, marrow failure and some inherited blood disorders.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Stem Cell Transplant From a Donor cost?

$7,744

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,744 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $331 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,413 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 50 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$331$234 to $479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,413$3,020 to $13,490

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,413 · 10th to 90th $490 to $24,547Professionalmedian $331 · 10th to 90th $195 to $1,023
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $7,413professional $331

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
$630.96
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$12,882.50
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$13,489.63
Typical High
$30,199.52
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$63,095.73

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 109.5 times more in Maryland than in Oregon. 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

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MD $100,240OR $915

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.