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Portable Gaseous Oxygen System with Home Compressor, Rental

Louisiana rates for HCPCS K0738

Portable gaseous oxygen system, rental; home compressor used to fill portable oxygen cylinders; includes portable containers, regulator, flowmeter, humidifier, cannula or mask, and tubing

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Portable Gaseous Oxygen System with Home Compressor, Rental cost?

$269

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $269 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $269 from a physician practice, and about $39.81 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$269$219 to $339
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$39.81$0.02 to $339

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $40 · 10th to 90th $0 to $355Professionalmedian $269 · 10th to 90th $32 to $355
$0.1$1$10$100$1Kfacility $40professional $269

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
$295.12
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$363.08
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$0.02
Typical High
$0.03
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$44.67
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$316.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$316.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$1,230.27
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$51.29

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.4 times more in Nebraska than in Oregon. 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.

Louisiana· 25th of 51

$269

NE $380OR $87.10

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.