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Limited Rhythm Ablation During Other Heart Surgery

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 33257

Creates a limited set of scar lines in the heart to interrupt the chaotic electrical signals that cause atrial fibrillation. It is performed during another open-heart operation and is billed in addition to that operation. This is the more limited version, treating fewer areas of the heart than the full pattern does.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Limited Rhythm Ablation During Other Heart Surgery cost?

$7,099

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,099 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,166 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 49 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$933$676 to $1,318
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,166$2,455 to $11,220

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,166 · 10th to 90th $891 to $16,982Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $550 to $2,089
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $6,166professional $933

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
$724.44
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$22,387.21
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$14,791.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$10,232.93

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 12.4 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

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CO $16,558MD $1,337

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.