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Kidney Removal From A Living Donor

Kentucky 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?

$8,758

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,758 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,514 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,244 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,514$1,413 to $1,905
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,244$1,862 to $9,550

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,244 · 10th to 90th $851 to $11,220Professionalmedian $1,514 · 10th to 90th $1,288 to $2,455
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,244professional $1,514

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
$851.14
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,818.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,995.26
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,290.87
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,344.23
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,691.53
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$28,183.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,951.21

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 9th of 49

$8,758

$1,514 physician + $7,244 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.