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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Indiana 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?

$2,188

Typical negotiated rate. In Indiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,188 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $661 from a physician practice, and about $38,905 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 5 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$661$550 to $1,000
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$38,905$20,417 to $57,544

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $38,905 · 10th to 90th $4,898 to $77,625Professionalmedian $661 · 10th to 90th $479 to $1,259
$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $38,905professional $661

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
$1,621.81
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$17,378.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,096.48
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22,908.68
Median
$42,657.95
Typical High
$97,723.72
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,000.00
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$13,803.84
Typical High
$43,651.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14,125.38
Median
$20,417.38
Typical High
$31,622.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,778.28

Where Indiana 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.

Indiana· 24th of 51

$2,188

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.