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Kidney Removal From A Living Donor

South Carolina 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?

$5,843

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,843 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,862 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,981 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,862$1,479 to $1,862
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,981$1,862 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $1,820 to $22,909Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $2,570
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $3,981professional $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
$9,120.11
Typical High
$22,908.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,995.26
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,162.28
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$3,467.37
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$3,019.95

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 24th of 49

$5,843

$1,862 physician + $3,981 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.