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Procedure price report · Bone marrow transplant

Thawing and washing stored stem cells before transplant

CPT 38209the billing code this page is about

Laboratory thawing of previously frozen blood-forming stem cells followed by washing; billed once for each donor whose cells are processed.

Hospitals typically charge $1,135 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,376. Most fall between $557 and $2,589 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
296
States
39
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 296 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
$483$625$1,135$2,464$4,538

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($483 vs $4,538).

How the prices are spread

$341 – $450: 11 hospitals$341$450 – $593: 44 hospitals$593 – $782: 35 hospitals$593$782 – $1,031: 29 hospitals$1,031 – $1,360: 44 hospitals$1,031$1,360 – $1,793: 20 hospitals$1,793 – $2,364: 12 hospitals$1,793$2,364 – $3,118: 45 hospitals$3,118 – $4,111: 13 hospitals$3,118$4,111 – $5,422: 17 hospitals$4,111median $1,135price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (270 of 296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$341$45011
$450$59344
$593$78235
$782$1,03129
$1,031$1,36044
$1,360$1,79320
$1,793$2,36412
$2,364$3,11845
$3,118$4,11113
$4,111$5,42217

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$451
Median cash price$1,135
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $1,135.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,397 across 14 hospitalsMI$2,397New York: median $524 across 28 hospitalsNY$524Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $710 across 12 hospitalsIN$710Ohio: median $1,106 across 16 hospitalsOH$1,106Pennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $2,240 across 24 hospitalsNJ$2,240Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,464 across 42 hospitalsCA$2,464Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $702 across 12 hospitalsAZ$702New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $2,589 across 18 hospitalsNC$2,589South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $804 across 12 hospitalsGA$804Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $1,119 across 25 hospitalsFL$1,119
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,135. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC18$2,589+128%$506 – $2,589
California CA42$2,464+117%$1,264 – $2,464
Michigan MI14$2,397+111%$607 – $2,516
New Jersey NJ24$2,240+97%$484 – $5,419
Florida FL25$1,119−1%$341 – $1,464
Ohio OH16$1,106−3%$1,054 – $1,191
Georgia GA12$804−29%$804 – $804
Indiana IN12$710−37%$625 – $960
Arizona AZ12$702−38%$541 – $702
New York NY28$524−54%$517 – $1,951
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,135.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care254$1,119$527 – $2,516
Children’s23$3,601$1,477 – $6,317
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit26$710$617 – $1,334
Government41$740$517 – $2,589
Non-profit225$1,264$607 – $2,677
System affiliation
Part of a system267$1,137$563 – $2,516
Independent29$1,054$471 – $4,640

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,061
Median cash price$1,135
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

194 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,264 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,570; most fall between $702 and $2,589.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 194 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
$557$804$1,264$2,464$3,601

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($557 vs $3,601).

Of the 248 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 194 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

296 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 353 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code353

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Trnsp Prep Hmatop Prog Thaw Prev Hrv Wsh 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 and washing stored stem cells before transplant (CPT 38209) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38209-thawing-and-washing-stored-stem-cells-before-transplant