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Recovery Of A Donor Pancreas For Transplant

New Jersey 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?

$1,862

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,862 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,862 from a physician practice, and about $6,918 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$1,862$1,549 to $1,862
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,918$4,677 to $10,233

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,918 · 10th to 90th $2,754 to $12,303Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,318 to $5,248
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $6,918professional $1,862

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
$4,466.84
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$12,302.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$5,495.41
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,023.29
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$251.19
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,548.82
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$10,471.29

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 40th of 51

$1,862

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.