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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Virginia 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?

$2,239

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,239 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,023 from a physician practice, and about $9,550 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$1,023$794 to $2,138
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9,550$5,012 to $15,488

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9,550 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $32,359Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $575 to $10,000
$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $9,550professional $1,023

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
$2,454.71
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$15,848.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$10,232.93
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12,882.50
Median
$22,387.21
Typical High
$38,018.94
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$870.96
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13,489.63
Median
$19,952.62
Typical High
$25,703.96
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,659.59
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$50,118.72
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$50,118.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22,908.68
Median
$51,286.14
Typical High
$102,329.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,041.74

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 23rd of 51

$2,239

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.