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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Nebraska 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?

$2,455

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,455 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $741 from a physician practice, and about $12,589 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$741$562 to $1,349
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$12,589$8,511 to $15,488

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $12,589 · 10th to 90th $7,244 to $30,903Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $417 to $2,138
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $12,589professional $741

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
$7,244.36
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$18,197.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,584.89
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12,882.50
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$32,359.37
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,584.89
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$147,910.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,511.89
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,479.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,748.98
Median
$38,904.51
Typical High
$47,863.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,511.89

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 21st of 51

$2,455

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.