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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Missouri 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?

$3,931

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,931 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,047 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$1,047$891 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$1,230 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $617 to $12,023Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $794 to $2,818
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,884professional $1,047

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
$1,698.24
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$18,620.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,511.89
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$11,748.98
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,659.59
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,122.02
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,344.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$12,022.64
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$11,220.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,454.71
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
$630.96
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$724.44

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 13th of 51

$3,931

$1,047 physician + $2,884 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.