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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Alaska rates for HCPCS 0408T

A small device and connecting wire are placed to send carefully timed electrical signals to the heart muscle, strengthening the force of each heartbeat without acting as a pacemaker or defibrillator. It is used for certain people with moderate to advanced heart failure whose symptoms continue despite standard medications and who are not candidates for other device-based heart failure therapies. The device and its wires are typically placed the same way a pacemaker is implanted, under the skin near the collarbone.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement cost?

$1,047

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,047 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,047 from a physician practice, and about $1,445 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$1,047$513 to $3,311
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,445$1,047 to $16,596

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $676 to $22,387Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $513 to $3,715
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $1,445professional $1,047

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$33,884.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,047.13
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,445.44
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$3,890.45
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$5,623.41

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 10.2 times more in Colorado than in South Dakota. 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.

Alaska· 34th of 51

$1,047

CO $8,128SD $794

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.