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Stitch Repair Of The Aorta Or A Great Vessel

Mississippi 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?

$3,079

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,079 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,188 to the doctor who performs it, and $891 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$2,188$1,380 to $3,020
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$891$562 to $1,230

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $891 · 10th to 90th $372 to $2,630Professionalmedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $6,457
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $891professional $2,188

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
$758.58
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,818.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,456.54
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,019.95
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,344.23
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,630.78
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
$691.83
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,235.94
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,288.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$4,786.30
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$954.99
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$4,466.84

Where Mississippi 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

Mississippi· 35th of 51

$3,079

$2,188 physician + $891 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.