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Procedure price report · Bone marrow transplant

Thawing stored stem cells before transplant

CPT 38208the billing code this page is about

Laboratory thawing of previously frozen blood-forming stem cells, without washing; billed once for each donor whose cells are thawed.

Hospitals typically charge $901 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 477 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $963. Most fall between $478 and $2,030 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
477
States
46
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 477 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
$341$510$901$1,477$3,922

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($341 vs $3,922).

How the prices are spread

$178 – $247: 5 hospitals$178$247 – $342: 23 hospitals$342 – $474: 42 hospitals$342$474 – $657: 77 hospitals$657 – $912: 78 hospitals$657$912 – $1,264: 94 hospitals$1,264 – $1,753: 24 hospitals$1,264$1,753 – $2,430: 31 hospitals$2,430 – $3,370: 29 hospitals$2,430$3,370 – $4,672: 28 hospitals$3,370median $901price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (431 of 477 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$178$2475
$247$34223
$342$47442
$474$65777
$657$91278
$912$1,26494
$1,264$1,75324
$1,753$2,43031
$2,430$3,37029
$3,370$4,67228

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$451
Median cash price$901
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.00×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $901.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $707 across 21 hospitalsWA$707Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth 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 $790 across 10 hospitalsIL$790Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,233 across 14 hospitalsMI$1,233New York: median $524 across 32 hospitalsNY$524Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $365 across 10 hospitalsOR$365Nevada: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $710 across 15 hospitalsIN$710Ohio: median $992 across 31 hospitalsOH$992Pennsylvania: median $824 across 12 hospitalsPA$824New Jersey: median $2,318 across 24 hospitalsNJ$2,318Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,264 across 52 hospitalsCA$1,264Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,393 across 13 hospitalsAZ$1,393New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,445 across 21 hospitalsNC$1,445South Carolina: median $755 across 16 hospitalsSC$755Oklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $318 across 10 hospitalsLA$318Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $864 across 23 hospitalsGA$864Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $901 across 31 hospitalsTX$901Florida: median $718 across 35 hospitalsFL$718
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $901. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ24$2,318+157%$484 – $5,419
North Carolina NC21$1,445+60%$480 – $2,589
Arizona AZ13$1,393+55%$199 – $1,393
California CA52$1,264+40%$656 – $3,926
Michigan MI14$1,233+37%$607 – $1,233
Ohio OH31$992+10%$932 – $1,137
Texas TX31$9010%$901 – $2,252
Georgia GA23$864−4%$652 – $2,030
Pennsylvania PA12$824−9%$521 – $982
Illinois IL10$790−12%$131 – $1,169
South Carolina SC16$755−16%$755 – $755
Florida FL35$718−20%$341 – $1,110
Indiana IN15$710−21%$531 – $942
Washington WA21$707−21%$294 – $938
New York NY32$524−42%$517 – $1,570
Oregon OR10$365−60%$365 – $412
Louisiana LA10$318−65%$171 – $644
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $901.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care419$864$469 – $1,951
Children’s35$1,969$495 – $5,290
Critical access19fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit37$778$455 – $1,393
Government63$641$465 – $2,030
Non-profit373$923$484 – $2,124
System affiliation
Part of a system436$901$484 – $2,030
Independent41$670$455 – $2,187

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,502
Median cash price$901
Cash as a share of list, median hospital58%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 42%. 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

351 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $966 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,048; most fall between $484 and $2,030.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 351 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
$348$611$966$1,716$3,024

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($348 vs $3,024).

Of the 394 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 351 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

477 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 528 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted477
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code528

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 4, 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 Trnspl Prep Hematop Progen Thaw Prev Hrv per Dnr.

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, “Thawing stored stem cells before transplant (CPT 38208) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38208-thawing-stored-stem-cells-before-transplant