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Implanting A Pressure Sensor In A Lung Artery

Kansas rates for HCPCS 33289

A small wireless sensor is placed inside an artery in the lung by threading a catheter through a vein, usually from the groin, up through the heart. Once in place the sensor measures the pressure in that artery and sends readings to an external unit, so a care team can follow rising pressures from a distance. It is used in heart failure to catch fluid build-up before it causes a hospital admission.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Implanting A Pressure Sensor In A Lung Artery cost?

$10,029

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10,029 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $479 to the doctor who performs it, and $9,550 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$479$437 to $550
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$9,550$3,548 to $30,903

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9,550 · 10th to 90th $1,122 to $32,359Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $380 to $741
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $9,550professional $479

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
$3,162.28
Median
$8,317.64
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$575.44
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$30,902.95
Median
$30,902.95
Typical High
$30,902.95
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$32,359.37
Typical High
$32,359.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$602.56
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$36,307.81
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$2,344.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$38,018.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$724.44
5 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
$208.93
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$416.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$54.95

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 45.0 times more in New Mexico 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

Kansas· 29th of 51

$10,029

$479 physician + $9,550 facility

NM $44,130MT $980

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.