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Stitch Repair Of The Aorta Or A Great Vessel

Texas 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?

$2,907

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,907 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $912 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,995 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$912$129 to $1,349
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,995$891 to $4,169

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,995 · 10th to 90th $501 to $10,471Professionalmedian $912 · 10th to 90th $24 to $1,820
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $1,995professional $912

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
$1,122.02
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,778.28
BCBS Texas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,344.23
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13,182.57
Median
$13,182.57
Typical High
$13,182.57
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$6,918.31
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,905.46
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$1,288.25
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$251,188.64
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,344.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,398.83
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,318.26
12 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
$676.08
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$851.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,288.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$169.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,202.26
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$831.76
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$331.13
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,258.93
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$251.19
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$165.96
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,174.90

Where Texas 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

Texas· 41st of 51

$2,907

$912 physician + $1,995 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.