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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Colorado 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?

$8,128

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,128 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $832 from a physician practice, and about $16,982 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 6 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$832$661 to $1,349
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$16,982$6,026 to $46,774

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $16,982 · 10th to 90th $3,311 to $173,780Professionalmedian $832 · 10th to 90th $661 to $6,026
$1K$10K$100Kfacility $16,982professional $832

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
$3,235.94
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$12,589.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$8,128.31
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18,197.01
Median
$38,018.94
Typical High
$204,173.79
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,698.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,174.90
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$954.99
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$457.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$31,622.78
Median
$44,668.36
Typical High
$67,608.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,454.71

Where Colorado 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.

Colorado· 1st of 51

$8,128

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.