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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Michigan 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?

$1,023

Typical negotiated rate. In Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,023 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $813 from a physician practice, and about $4,898 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$813$776 to $1,549
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,898$4,786 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $4,786 to $16,982Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $501 to $30,200
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $4,898professional $813

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
$4,786.30
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,918.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30,199.52
Median
$30,199.52
Typical High
$30,199.52
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28,183.83
Median
$30,199.52
Typical High
$30,199.52
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$6,918.31
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,481.54
Median
$29,512.09
Typical High
$66,069.34
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,621.81

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 37th of 51

$1,023

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.