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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 July 2026.

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

$9,783

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9,783 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $8,913 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$871$741 to $977
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$8,913$3,236 to $13,490

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,913 · 10th to 90th $1,148 to $25,704Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $692 to $1,318
$100$1K$10Kfacility $8,913professional $871

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
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$12,022.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,230.27
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$13,803.84
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,023.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$19,952.62
Typical High
$42,657.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,819.70
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,332.54
Median
$21,379.62
Typical High
$33,884.42
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$831.76
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$1,148.15
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,862.09
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$870.96

Where Florida sits

The same service costs 22.5 times more in Indiana 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· 8th of 49

$9,783

$871 physician + $8,913 facility

IN $36,393MD $1,616

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.