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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 July 2026.

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

$2,622

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,622 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,000 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,622 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$1,000$851 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,622$1,000 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $6,457Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $724 to $1,413
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,622professional $1,000

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
$1,000.00
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,122.02
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$8,709.64
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$6,165.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 46th of 49

$2,622

$1,000 physician + $1,622 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.