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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Louisiana 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?

$3,467

Typical facility fee. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,467 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,096 to $8,511.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $1,122 to $34,674Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $813 to $4,786
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $4,074professional $955

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
$954.99
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$9,332.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$8,511.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22,908.68
Median
$38,018.94
Typical High
$54,954.09
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34,673.69
Median
$34,673.69
Typical High
$34,673.69
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$23,988.33
Typical High
$51,286.14
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,905.46

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 12th of 51

$3,467

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.