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Check Of A Wireless Heart Pacing System

Montana 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?

$50.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Montana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $50.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $48.98 from a physician practice, and about $81.28 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 5 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$48.98$45.71 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$81.28$43.65 to $91.20

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $81 · 10th to 90th $37 to $93Professionalmedian $49 · 10th to 90th $44 to $91
$50$100facility $81professional $49

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$48.98
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$97.72
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$83.18
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$91.20
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$91.20
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$104.71
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$83.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$83.18

Where Montana 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.

Montana· 15th of 51

$50.12

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.