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Placing A Diaphragm Stimulator's Battery Unit

Virginia 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?

$3,631

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,631 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,148 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 4 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$1,148$871 to $3,388
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,607$4,365 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,607 · 10th to 90th $3,236 to $15,136Professionalmedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $741 to $7,079
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,607professional $1,148

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
$3,235.94
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$7,943.28
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$7,413.10
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,318.26
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$10,964.78
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$10,964.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10,715.19
Median
$17,782.79
Typical High
$36,307.81

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 36th of 50

$3,631

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.