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Preparing An Embryo For Transfer

Kansas rates for HCPCS 89255

The laboratory work of getting an embryo ready to be placed into the womb: selecting it, checking it under the microscope, and loading it into the fine catheter the doctor will use for the transfer.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Preparing An Embryo For Transfer cost?

$309

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $309 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $309 from a physician practice, and about $309 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 5 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$309$309 to $309
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$309$282 to $331

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $309 · 10th to 90th $62 to $8,710Professionalmedian $309 · 10th to 90th $209 to $309
$20$100$500$2Kfacility $309professional $309

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
$309.03
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$309.03
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$208.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$436.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$323.59
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$389.05
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$79.43

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 4.9 times more in South Dakota than in Oklahoma. 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.

Kansas· 31st of 51

$309

SD $525OK $107

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.