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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Florida 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?

$3,433

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,433 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,692 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$741$589 to $933
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,692$617 to $13,490

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $447 to $25,704Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $68 to $1,202
$100$1K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $741

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
$741.31
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$12,022.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$977.24
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$13,182.57
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$19,952.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,698.24
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10,000.00
Median
$21,877.62
Typical High
$33,884.42
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$831.76
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,023.29
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,137.96
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$851.14
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
$549.54
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$741.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$691.83

Where Florida 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

Florida· 16th of 51

$3,433

$741 physician + $2,692 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.