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Keyhole Placement of Heart Surface Pacing Wires

Texas 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?

$2,522

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,522 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $617 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,905 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$617$105 to $851
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,905$776 to $4,169

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $490 to $10,471Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $48 to $7,244
$10$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $1,905professional $617

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
$3,715.35
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS Texas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,380.38
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$8,511.38
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$6,918.31
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,148.15
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$776.25
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$251,188.64
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,380.38
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
4 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
$588.84
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$758.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$707.95
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$724.44
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$676.08

Where Texas 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

Texas· 27th of 51

$2,522

$617 physician + $1,905 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.