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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Minnesota 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?

$912

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $912 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $794 from a physician practice, and about $58,884 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$794$692 to $1,318
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$58,884$14,125 to $100,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $58,884 · 10th to 90th $794 to $144,544Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $575 to $2,818
$1K$5K$20K$100Kfacility $58,884professional $794

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
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$912.01
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42,657.95
Median
$85,113.80
Typical High
$229,086.77
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
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$15,135.61
Typical High
$83,176.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$18,620.87
Typical High
$81,283.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,311.31

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 40th of 51

$912

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.