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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Kentucky 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?

$1,684

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,684 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $813 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$871$759 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$813$603 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $380 to $8,511Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $676 to $1,479
$100$1K$10Kfacility $813professional $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
$676.08
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,096.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,071.52
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,174.90
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,348.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$8,317.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,584.89
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
$602.56
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$812.83

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 49th of 51

$1,684

$871 physician + $813 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.