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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 October 2026.

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

$63.10

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $63.10 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $63.10 from a physician practice, and about $47.86 from a hospital or other facility.

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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$63.10$48.98 to $141
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$47.86$38.02 to $79.43

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $48 · 10th to 90th $30 to $3,090Professionalmedian $63 · 10th to 90th $34 to $398
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $48professional $63

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$48.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$48.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$25.70
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$398.11
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$70.79
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$87.10
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$87.10
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$147.91
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$66.07
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$89.13
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$398.11
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$114.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$162.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$74.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$93.33
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$4,897.79
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,019.95
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$24.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$9.77

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 4.2 times more in Nebraska than in Arkansas. 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· 13th of 51

$63.10

NE $105AR $25.12

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.