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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Florida 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?

$2,291

Typical negotiated rate. In Florida, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,291 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $955 from a physician practice, and about $10,471 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 7 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$955$692 to $1,023
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10,471$3,981 to $15,849

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,471 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $32,359Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $575 to $1,950
$1K$10K$100K$1M$10Mfacility $10,471professional $955

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
$1,230.27
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$17,782.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,949.84
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$32,359.37
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$588.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$17,782.79
Typical High
$26,915.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$4,365.16
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659,586.91
Median
$4,677,351.41
Typical High
$10,000,000.00
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$562.34
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15,135.61
Median
$34,673.69
Typical High
$83,176.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,089.30
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$588.84

Where Florida 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.

Florida· 22nd of 51

$2,291

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.