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Removal Of A Pacing Wire From The Heart

Kentucky rates for HCPCS 33234

Removes a pacing wire that runs through a vein into the heart, freeing it from the vein wall and the heart muscle and drawing it out. It is done when a wire is infected, damaged, or no longer needed.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Removal Of A Pacing Wire From The Heart cost?

$1,647

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,647 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $575 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,072 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$575$479 to $741
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,072$646 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,072 · 10th to 90th $479 to $7,762Professionalmedian $575 · 10th to 90th $398 to $955
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,072professional $575

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
$478.63
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,023.29
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$741.31
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$3,311.31
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,090.30
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$977.24
6 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
$239.88
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$489.78

Where Kentucky sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in Connecticut 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

Kentucky· 50th of 51

$1,647

$575 physician + $1,072 facility

CT $7,713MT $1,433

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.