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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Nevada 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?

$5,831

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,831 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,898 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$933$891 to $1,259
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,898$1,288 to $13,183

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $912 to $17,378Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $776 to $4,169
$100$1K$10Kfacility $4,898professional $933

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
$912.01
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$41,686.94
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$4,168.69
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$13,182.57
Typical High
$17,378.01
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15,848.93
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$15,848.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,348.96
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,318.26
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,122.02
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,905.46

Where Nevada 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

Nevada· 21st of 49

$5,831

$933 physician + $4,898 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.