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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Massachusetts 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?

$2,259

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,259 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,259 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,000 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,259$955 to $2,188
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,000$631 to $1,862

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $407 to $3,548Professionalmedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $724 to $8,511
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,000professional $1,259

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
$2,398.83
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,128.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$2,398.83
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$3,548.13
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$8,511.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,187.76
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,288.25
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,073.80
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,570.40
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$3,548.13
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,202.26
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$741.31
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
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,778.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,659.59

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 37th of 51

$2,259

$1,259 physician + $1,000 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.