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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

California 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?

$7,413

Typical negotiated rate. In California, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,413 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $912 from a physician practice, and about $8,913 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 9 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$912$851 to $3,020
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8,913$5,623 to $12,303

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,913 · 10th to 90th $4,571 to $19,055Professionalmedian $912 · 10th to 90th $501 to $11,482
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $8,913professional $912

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
$4,897.79
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$23,988.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$14,125.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,786.30
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$15,848.93
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,584.89
Blue Shield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$32,359.37
Blue Shield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18,197.01
Median
$25,703.96
Typical High
$38,904.51
Contra Costa Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35,481.34
Median
$35,481.34
Typical High
$37,153.52
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,819.70
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147,910.84
Median
$147,910.84
Typical High
$147,910.84
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$7,244.36
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,659.59
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16,218.10
Median
$34,673.69
Typical High
$77,624.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,570.40

Where California 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.

California· 4th of 51

$7,413

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.