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Kidney Removal From A Living Donor

Iowa rates for HCPCS 50320

Removal of a healthy kidney from a living donor through a surgical incision, so that it can be transplanted into someone with kidney failure. The kidney is cooled and preserved as it is taken out. The donor is a healthy person undergoing an operation for another person's benefit, and recovers with one kidney.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Kidney Removal From A Living Donor cost?

$7,609

Typical total for the visit. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,609 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,239 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,370 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$2,239$1,778 to $4,074
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,370$3,090 to $6,761

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $2,188 to $7,943Professionalmedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $9,120
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,370professional $2,239

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
$2,187.76
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$9,120.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$4,265.80
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$5,128.61
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,244.36
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$12,589.25
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$4,677.35
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$8,128.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$4,365.16
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,467.37

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 5.3 times more in Indiana than in Maryland. 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

Iowa· 14th of 49

$7,609

$2,239 physician + $5,370 facility

IN $12,375MD $2,320

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.