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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Oregon 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?

$1,000

Typical negotiated rate. In Oregon, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,000 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,000 from a physician practice, and about $955 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 7 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$1,000 to $1,950
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$955$912 to $19,055

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $912 to $40,738Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $851 to $2,570
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50K$100Kfacility $955professional $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
$7,943.28
Median
$19,054.61
Typical High
$33,884.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,000.00
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,187.76
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,041.74
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$36,307.81
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,584.89
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,698.24
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74,131.02
Median
$109,647.82
Typical High
$138,038.43
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,570.40
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40,738.03
Median
$64,565.42
Typical High
$95,499.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,884.03

Where Oregon 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.

Oregon· 38th of 51

$1,000

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.