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Implanting A Pressure Sensor In A Lung Artery

Missouri 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?

$4,884

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,884 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $417 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,467 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$417$355 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,467$2,138 to $10,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $24,547Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $316 to $1,096
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $4,467professional $417

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
$2,511.89
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$5,623.41
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,762.47
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$660.69
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$954.99
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$89,125.09
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,344.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$38,018.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,000.00
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
$173.78
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$42.66

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 43rd of 51

$4,884

$417 physician + $4,467 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.