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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Kentucky 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?

$794

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $794 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $617 from a physician practice, and about $6,166 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$617$479 to $851
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,166$1,202 to $11,749

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,166 · 10th to 90th $617 to $17,378Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $437 to $1,778
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $6,166professional $617

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
$616.60
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$13,803.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,818.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,549.93
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$11,748.98
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$602.56
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$46,773.51
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$14,791.08
Typical High
$26,302.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$4,365.16
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$44.67
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$21,877.62
Typical High
$33,884.42
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,819.70

Where Kentucky 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.

Kentucky· 50th of 51

$794

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.