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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Georgia 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?

$3,236

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,236 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $871 from a physician practice, and about $7,413 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 4 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$871$794 to $912
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,413$4,571 to $13,183

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,413 · 10th to 90th $2,818 to $19,498Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $589 to $1,445
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,413professional $871

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
$4,168.69
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$13,803.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$4,570.88
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$21,877.62
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$912.01
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$13,182.57
Typical High
$43,651.58
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$2,511.89

Where Georgia 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.

Georgia· 15th of 51

$3,236

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.