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Heart Contraction-Boosting Device Placement

Washington 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?

$1,698

Typical negotiated rate. In Washington, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,698 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,047 from a physician practice, and about $19,055 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 10 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$1,047$912 to $1,549
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$19,055$7,079 to $54,954

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $19,055 · 10th to 90th $912 to $117,490Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $794 to $2,138
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $19,055professional $1,047

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
$1,548.82
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$23,442.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,047.13
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$102,329.30
Typical High
$181,970.09
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50,118.72
Median
$50,118.72
Typical High
$50,118.72
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30,902.95
Median
$95,499.26
Typical High
$151,356.12
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30,902.95
Median
$54,954.09
Typical High
$75,857.76
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$50.12
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$46,773.51
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,174.90
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,041.74
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66,069.34
Median
$95,499.26
Typical High
$177,827.94
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33,884.42
Median
$97,723.72
Typical High
$186,208.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$2,511.89
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,949.84

Where Washington 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.

Washington· 29th of 51

$1,698

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.