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Implanting A Pressure Sensor In A Lung Artery

Montana 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?

$980

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $980 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $479 to the doctor who performs it, and $501 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$479$316 to $525
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$501$490 to $617

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $501 · 10th to 90th $490 to $41,687Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $79 to $575
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $501professional $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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,000.00
BCBS Montana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$41,686.94
Typical High
$70,794.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$512.86
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$575.44
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$524.81
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$41,686.94
Typical High
$70,794.58
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$524.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$69,183.10
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$812.83

Where Montana 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

Montana· 51st of 51

$980

$479 physician + $501 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.