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Recovery Of A Donor Pancreas For Transplant

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 48550

Covers removing the pancreas from an organ donor, with a segment of duodenum attached if needed, and cooling and preserving it for transport to the hospital where a transplant is waiting. Keeping the gland and its blood supply intact is what makes the later transplant possible. Placing it into the recipient is a separate operation.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Recovery Of A Donor Pancreas For Transplant cost?

$2,754

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,754 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,754 from a physician practice, and about $2,754 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$2,754$2,239 to $2,754
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,754$2,630 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $13,804Professionalmedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $2,754
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,754professional $2,754

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
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$15,488.17
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$2,754.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$5,128.61
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$8,511.38

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 3.0 times more in California than in Wisconsin. 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$2,754

CA $5,495WI $1,862

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.