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Recovery Of A Donor Pancreas For Transplant

Washington 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 Washington, 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 $6,457 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 6 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$1,862 to $1,862
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,457$1,862 to $17,783

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $1,738 to $20,893Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $2,188
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $6,457professional $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
$1,862.09
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$954.99
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$776.25
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,073.80
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$64.57
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$5,754.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,128.31
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$8,128.31
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,445.44

Where Washington 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.

Washington· 41st 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.