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Procedure price report · Bone marrow transplant

Collecting blood stem cells from a donor

CPT 38205the billing code this page is about

Harvesting blood-forming stem cells from the circulating blood of a donor for transplant into another person.

Hospitals typically charge $3,069 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 397 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,319. Most fall between $1,098 and $5,951 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
397
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 397 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$429$1,555$3,069$5,531$8,689

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($429 vs $8,689).

How the prices are spread

$218 – $321: 18 hospitals$218$321 – $473: 16 hospitals$473 – $697: 6 hospitals$473$697 – $1,028: 23 hospitals$1,028 – $1,515: 18 hospitals$1,028$1,515 – $2,234: 49 hospitals$2,234 – $3,293: 63 hospitals$2,234$3,293 – $4,855: 75 hospitals$4,855 – $7,158: 47 hospitals$4,855$7,158 – $10,552: 49 hospitals$7,158median $3,069price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (364 of 397 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$218$32118
$321$47316
$473$6976
$697$1,02823
$1,028$1,51518
$1,515$2,23449
$2,234$3,29363
$3,293$4,85575
$4,855$7,15847
$7,158$10,55249

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,069.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,678 across 18 hospitalsIL$2,678Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $3,624 across 15 hospitalsNY$3,624Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $218 across 15 hospitalsIA$218Indiana: median $1,098 across 15 hospitalsIN$1,098Ohio: median $2,106 across 18 hospitalsOH$2,106Pennsylvania: median $1,916 across 14 hospitalsPA$1,916New Jersey: median $5,339 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,839 across 36 hospitalsCA$2,839Utah: median $7,325 across 12 hospitalsUT$7,325Colorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $8,689 across 14 hospitalsAZ$8,689New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $3,767 across 16 hospitalsNC$3,767South Carolina: median $3,685 across 17 hospitalsSC$3,685Oklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $1,073 across 10 hospitalsLA$1,073Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $7,429 across 14 hospitalsGA$7,429Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,144 across 53 hospitalsTX$4,144Florida: median $4,975 across 23 hospitalsFL$4,975
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,069. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ14$8,689+183%$1,611 – $8,689
Georgia GA14$7,429+142%$7,429 – $9,419
Utah UT12$7,325+139%$7,325 – $7,325
New Jersey NJ13$5,339+74%$4,350 – $6,311
Florida FL23$4,975+62%$3,069 – $9,841
Texas TX53$4,144+35%$2,591 – $5,531
North Carolina NC16$3,767+23%$1,661 – $3,767
South Carolina SC17$3,685+20%$2,928 – $3,685
New York NY15$3,624+18%$441 – $7,785
California CA36$2,839−7%$1,418 – $2,839
Illinois IL18$2,678−13%$921 – $3,939
Ohio OH18$2,106−31%$429 – $4,831
Pennsylvania PA14$1,916−38%$1,222 – $5,447
Indiana IN15$1,098−64%$880 – $1,576
Louisiana LA10$1,073−65%$872 – $1,564
Iowa IA15$218−93%$218 – $218
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $3,069.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care344$3,081$1,073 – $5,951
Children’s33$3,205$1,418 – $8,312
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit37$5,531$1,541 – $11,000
Government41$3,767$1,584 – $5,485
Non-profit315$3,046$1,000 – $5,604
System affiliation
Part of a system357$3,274$1,331 – $5,951
Independent40$1,664$334 – $5,317

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,008
Median cash price$3,069
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

324 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,274 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,454; most fall between $1,555 and $6,088.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 324 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$432$1,934$3,274$5,531$8,689

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($432 vs $8,689).

Of the 398 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 324 gave a usable cash price; 56 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

397 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 497 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted397
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code497

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Bone marrow transplant family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Bld-Drv Hematop Progen Cell Hrvg Trnsplj Algnc.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Collecting blood stem cells from a donor (CPT 38205) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38205-collecting-blood-stem-cells-from-a-donor