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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 October 2026.

How much does Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires cost?

$3,863

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,863 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $912 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,951 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$912$794 to $1,202
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,951$759 to $8,128

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,951 · 10th to 90th $501 to $10,233Professionalmedian $912 · 10th to 90th $692 to $1,413
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $2,951professional $912

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
$891.25
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$41,686.94
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,897.79
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$15,848.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,348.96
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,318.26
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$1,122.02
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,412.54
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
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96

Where Nevada 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

Nevada· 14th of 51

$3,863

$912 physician + $2,951 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.