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Unscheduled or Emergency Dialysis in Hospital Outpatient

South Carolina rates for HCPCS G0257

Unscheduled or emergency dialysis treatment for an ESRD patient in a hospital outpatient department that is not certified as an ESRD facility

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Unscheduled or Emergency Dialysis in Hospital Outpatient cost?

$5.75

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5.75 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.75 from a physician practice, and about $6.46 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$5.75$5.75 to $5.75
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6.46$5.75 to $9.77

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6 · 10th to 90th $6 to $631Professionalmedian $6 · 10th to 90th $6 to $631
$10$20$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $6professional $6

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
$5.75
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$1,412.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$630.96
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,754.23
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$616.60
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$125.89
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20

Where South Carolina sits

The same service costs 162.2 times more in North Carolina than in Georgia. 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.

South Carolina· 43rd of 51

$5.75

NC $933GA $5.75

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.