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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Massachusetts 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?

$1,905

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,905 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,175 from a physician practice, and about $4,786 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$1,175$1,096 to $2,089
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,786$3,162 to $7,079

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,786 · 10th to 90th $2,818 to $9,333Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $977 to $2,818
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $4,786professional $1,175

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
$2,691.53
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,174.90
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$51,286.14
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$6,456.54
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$9,772.37
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,318.26
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$47,863.01
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,884.03
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$51,286.14
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$81,283.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,073.80

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 26th of 51

$1,905

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.