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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Alabama 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?

$871

Typical facility fee. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $871 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $794 to $8,710.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,471 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $21,380Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $661 to $871
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $10,471professional $794

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
$1,096.48
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,630.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$870.96
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,481.54
Median
$13,803.84
Typical High
$18,197.01
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$14,454.40
Typical High
$30,902.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,513.56

Where Alabama 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.

Alabama· 44th of 51

$871

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.