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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Oklahoma 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?

$2,396

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,396 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,047 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,349 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,047$851 to $1,349
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,349$891 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $457 to $6,457Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $708 to $8,511
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,349professional $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
$1,000.00
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$18,620.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$3,890.45
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$6,309.57
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 32nd of 51

$2,396

$1,047 physician + $1,349 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.