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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Iowa 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?

$2,818

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,818 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $794 from a physician practice, and about $7,586 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$794$759 to $1,349
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,586$5,754 to $13,490

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,586 · 10th to 90th $2,512 to $44,668Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $741 to $2,512
$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $7,586professional $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
$3,467.37
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$13,489.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$794.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,584.89
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$562.34
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$28,840.32
Typical High
$97,723.72
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,090.30
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,584.89
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17,378.01
Median
$45,708.82
Typical High
$83,176.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,884.03

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 19th of 51

$2,818

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.