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Removal Of A Tumor From Inside The Heart

Iowa rates for HCPCS 33120

Opens the heart, with the patient supported on a heart-lung machine, to cut out a growth sitting inside one of its chambers. Growths inside the heart can obstruct blood flow through a valve or shed fragments that travel to the brain or lungs. Removing the growth restores normal flow and removes that risk.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Removal Of A Tumor From Inside The Heart cost?

$7,189

Typical total for the visit. In Iowa, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,189 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $4,169 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,020 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$4,169$2,951 to $5,129
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,020$1,514 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $603 to $6,607Professionalmedian $4,169 · 10th to 90th $2,138 to $6,457
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $3,020professional $4,169

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
$3,235.94
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$3,235.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$5,623.41
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,073.80
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$5,888.44
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$8,317.64
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$5,623.41
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$6,918.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$6,606.93
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,786.30

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 7.0 times more in Alabama than in Delaware. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Iowa· 13th of 51

$7,189

$4,169 physician + $3,020 facility

AL $20,601DE $2,932

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.