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Extensive Heart Rhythm Ablation During Other Heart Surgery

California 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?

$4,212

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,212 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,122 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,090 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 12 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,122$832 to $1,585
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,090$871 to $8,511

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $589 to $14,125Professionalmedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $741 to $3,548
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,090professional $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
$933.25
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$19,054.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,258.93
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$20,417.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$3,388.44
Blue Shield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,606.93
Blue Shield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,778.28
Central California Alliance for Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$5,623.41
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,344.23
Contra Costa Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,071.52
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,398.83
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$7,413.10
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,230.27
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$5,623.41
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,344.23
Sutter Health Plus
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$11,748.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,570.40
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
$575.44
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$707.95

Where California 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

California· 8th of 51

$4,212

$1,122 physician + $3,090 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.