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Kidney Removal From A Living Donor

Pennsylvania 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?

$6,919

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,919 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,549 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,549$1,349 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,370$1,660 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $1,096 to $8,511Professionalmedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $1,318 to $2,455
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,370professional $1,549

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
$1,412.54
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,949.84
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20,417.38
Median
$21,379.62
Typical High
$57,543.99
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,754.23
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,630.27
Geisinger
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,818.38
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$8,317.64
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$4,168.69
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$1,659.59
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,513.56
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$3,019.95

Where Pennsylvania 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

Pennsylvania· 15th of 49

$6,919

$1,549 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.