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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Illinois 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?

$3,162

Typical negotiated rate. In Illinois, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,162 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,000 from a physician practice, and about $5,623 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$1,000$759 to $1,318
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,623$2,884 to $9,550

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,623 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $19,498Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $513 to $6,607
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $5,623professional $1,000

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
$1,148.15
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$7,244.36
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30,199.52
Median
$45,708.82
Typical High
$53,703.18
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$346.74
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$30,902.95
Typical High
$54,954.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,041.74

Where Illinois 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.

Illinois· 16th of 51

$3,162

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.