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Placing A Diaphragm Stimulator's Battery Unit

Florida rates for HCPCS 0680T

Setting the battery-and-electronics unit of a diaphragm stimulation system into a pocket under the skin and connecting it to leads already attached to the muscle; the system stimulates the diaphragm to improve the pumping of a failing heart. The same service covers exchanging a unit that is already in place for a new one. The leads themselves are not disturbed.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placing A Diaphragm Stimulator's Battery Unit cost?

$6,310

Typical negotiated rate. In Florida, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,310 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,230 from a physician practice, and about $6,607 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$1,230$851 to $10,471
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,607$2,344 to $11,220

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,607 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $19,953Professionalmedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $631 to $12,303
$1K$10K$100K$1Mfacility $6,607professional $1,230

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
$1,000.00
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$11,748.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$12,302.69
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15,488.17
Median
$19,952.62
Typical High
$19,952.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$17,782.79
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412,537.54
Median
$3,890,451.45
Typical High
$8,511,380.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$50.12
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$27,542.29
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96

Where Florida sits

The same service costs 537.0 times more in Minnesota than in Montana. 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.

Florida· 20th of 50

$6,310

MN $42,658MT $79.43

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.