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Stitch Repair Of The Aorta Or A Great Vessel

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 33322

Open chest surgery in which a tear, hole or weak point in the aorta or another large vessel beside the heart is closed with stitches rather than replaced. Blood flow is kept going through a bypass circuit while the vessel is opened and repaired.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Stitch Repair Of The Aorta Or A Great Vessel cost?

$2,860

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,860 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,905 to the doctor who performs it, and $955 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$1,905$1,622 to $2,239
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$955$550 to $2,239

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $389 to $3,890Professionalmedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $1,380 to $2,570
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $955professional $1,905

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
$676.08
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,089.30
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,511.89
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,344.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,754.23
6 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
$812.83
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,047.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$416.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,584.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,479.11

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 8.9 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

Louisiana· 42nd of 51

$2,860

$1,905 physician + $955 facility

AL $18,845MD $2,111

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.