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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Alaska rates for HCPCS 33203

Placement of pacing wires directly onto the outer surface of the heart, done with a camera and slim instruments passed through small incisions between the ribs rather than by opening the chest. The wires are then connected to a pacemaker or defibrillator unit. This route is used when wires cannot be threaded to the heart through a vein.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires cost?

$7,703

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,703 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,236 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,467 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$3,236$2,138 to $3,236
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,467$1,820 to $16,596

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $251,189Professionalmedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $4,898
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $4,467professional $3,236

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$16,595.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,691.53
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$6,309.57
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$5,370.32
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$3,235.94
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$251,188.64
Typical High
$346,736.85
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$4,897.79

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 10.7 times more in Colorado than in Maryland. 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

Alaska· 6th of 51

$7,703

$3,236 physician + $4,467 facility

CO $15,603MD $1,454

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.