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Extensive Heart Rhythm Ablation During Other Heart Surgery

Alabama rates for HCPCS 33259

Creates an extensive pattern of scar lines in the heart's upper chambers to block the chaotic electrical signals that cause atrial fibrillation, with the patient supported on a heart-lung machine while it is done. It is performed during another open-heart operation and is billed in addition to that operation. The scar lines channel the heart's electrical activity back into a regular rhythm.

Rates data updated October 2026.

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

$18,905

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18,905 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,122 to the doctor who performs it, and $17,783 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,122$912 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$17,783$1,072 to $18,197

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $17,783 · 10th to 90th $562 to $18,197Professionalmedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $794 to $1,514
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $17,783professional $1,122

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
$776.25
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,630.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,513.56
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17,782.79
Median
$18,197.01
Typical High
$18,197.01
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work + 24 · Unrelated visit after surgery
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,230.27
1 more rate 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
$1,122.02
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,122.02

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 12.1 times more in Alabama 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

Alabama· 1st of 51

$18,905

$1,122 physician + $17,783 facility

AL $18,905MD $1,562

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.