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Brain Protection Filter During A Heart Valve Procedure

Pennsylvania rates for HCPCS 33370

Places a filter into the arteries leading to the brain before a catheter-based heart valve procedure and removes it afterwards, so that any debris knocked loose during the procedure is caught rather than carried up to the brain. It is delivered through a puncture in an artery and includes the imaging needed to position and retrieve it. It is billed in addition to the valve procedure.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Brain Protection Filter During A Heart Valve Procedure cost?

$2,692

Typical facility fee. In Pennsylvania, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,692 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,514 to $5,370.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $589 to $8,318
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$8,317.64
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,011.87
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$77,624.71
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$8,317.64
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$144.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$4,466.84

Where Pennsylvania sits

The same service costs 67.6 times more in New Hampshire 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.

Pennsylvania· 18th of 49

$2,692

NH $8,913MD $132

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.