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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Arizona 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?

$2,821

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,821 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$871$794 to $1,096
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$955 to $5,129

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $174 to $10,000Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $741 to $8,511
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,950professional $871

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
$977.24
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$15,488.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$912.01
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$10,232.93
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,548.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,466.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,412.54
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$630.96

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 22nd of 51

$2,821

$871 physician + $1,950 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.