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Permanent Pacemaker With an Upper-Chamber Lead

Michigan rates for HCPCS 33206

Implants a permanent pacemaker under the skin near the collarbone and threads its pacing wire through a vein into the upper chamber of the heart. Pacing the upper chamber keeps the heart rate from dropping too low when the heart's own natural pacemaker is unreliable. Both placing a new system and replacing an existing one are covered.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Permanent Pacemaker With an Upper-Chamber Lead cost?

$15,071

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $15,071 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $617 to the doctor who performs it, and $14,454 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$617$490 to $661
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$14,454$5,012 to $15,849

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $14,454 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $22,387Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $372 to $741
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $14,454professional $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
$630.96
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,918.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$660.69
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14,454.40
Median
$14,454.40
Typical High
$25,118.86
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$741.31
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$9,549.93
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$724.44
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$8,317.64
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$16,982.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$812.83
13 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
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$331.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$66.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$457.09
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
KX · Policy requirements met
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$218.78
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$309.03
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$125.89
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$93.33
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$63.10
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52

Where Michigan sits

The same service costs 16.2 times more in Oklahoma than in Montana. 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

Michigan· 7th of 51

$15,071

$617 physician + $14,454 facility

OK $21,968MT $1,353

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.