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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

New Jersey 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?

$5,888

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,888 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,000 from a physician practice, and about $11,482 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$1,000$851 to $2,239
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$11,482$8,511 to $17,783

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $11,482 · 10th to 90th $5,370 to $23,442Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $741 to $14,125
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $11,482professional $1,000

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
$5,370.32
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$19,952.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$18,620.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22,387.21
Median
$28,183.83
Typical High
$33,113.11
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$102,329.30
Typical High
$162,181.01
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$41,686.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,691.53

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 6th of 51

$5,888

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.