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Check Of A Wireless Heart Pacing System

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 0521T

An in-office check of an implanted wireless system that paces the heart's main pumping chamber. The clinician connects to the device, records how it has been working, disconnects, and issues a review and report.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Check Of A Wireless Heart Pacing System cost?

$53.70

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $53.70 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $53.70 from a physician practice, and about $48.98 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$53.70$42.66 to $95.50
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$48.98$38.02 to $70.79

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $49 · 10th to 90th $29 to $98Professionalmedian $54 · 10th to 90th $26 to $132
$20$100$500$2Kfacility $49professional $54

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
$48.98
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$48.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$53.70
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$380.19
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$70.79
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$75.86
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$95.50
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$89.13
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$134.90
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$380.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$107.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$158.49

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 2.3 times more in Wisconsin than in Kansas. 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.

Massachusetts· 10th of 51

$53.70

WI $69.18KS $30.20

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.