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Laser Channels In The Heart Muscle

Vermont rates for HCPCS 33140

Uses a laser to make many tiny channels in the wall of the heart's main pumping chamber, with the aim of improving blood supply to muscle that is starved of it. It is offered for severe chest pain from coronary disease that cannot be relieved by bypass surgery or stents. The heart is reached through an incision in the chest.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Laser Channels In The Heart Muscle cost?

$1,950

Typical physician fee. In Vermont, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,950 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,950 to $2,042.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $1,950 to $2,692
$1K$2K$5Kprofessional $1,950

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
$1,949.84
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$6,456.54

Where Vermont sits

The same service costs 5.0 times more in California than in West Virginia. 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.

Vermont· 35th of 51

$1,950

CA $8,511WV $1,698

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.