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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

South Carolina 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?

$851

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $851 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $813 from a physician practice, and about $17,378 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$813$776 to $851
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$17,378$10,965 to $22,909

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $17,378 · 10th to 90th $776 to $43,652Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $776 to $871
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $17,378professional $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
$776.25
Median
$13,489.63
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$851.14
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,897.79
Median
$34,673.69
Typical High
$66,069.34
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33,113.11
Median
$33,113.11
Typical High
$42,657.95
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,659.59
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$32,359.37
Typical High
$91,201.08
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,187.76

Where South Carolina 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.

South Carolina· 45th of 51

$851

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.