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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Kansas 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?

$13,253

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13,253 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,230 to the doctor who performs it, and $12,023 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$1,230$1,047 to $1,349
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$12,023$1,148 to $16,982

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $12,023 · 10th to 90th $562 to $17,783Professionalmedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $871 to $1,738
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $12,023professional $1,230

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
$1,949.84
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$16,218.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16,982.44
Median
$17,782.79
Typical High
$17,782.79
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$2,041.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,479.11
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$12,022.64
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,737.80
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
$741.31
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,023.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$954.99

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 2nd of 51

$13,253

$1,230 physician + $12,023 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.