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Aortic Valve Replacement With Donor Valve

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 33406

Open-heart surgery that removes a damaged aortic valve and replaces it with a valve taken from a human donor. The heart is stopped and a heart-lung machine takes over circulation while the new valve is sewn into place. A donor valve avoids the need for lifelong blood thinning medicine that a mechanical valve requires.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Aortic Valve Replacement With Donor Valve cost?

$7,217

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,217 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,981 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 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$3,981$3,388 to $4,467
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$1,230 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $891 to $5,370Professionalmedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $2,884 to $4,898
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,236professional $3,981

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
$933.25
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$4,570.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$5,248.07
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$6,309.57

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 9.1 times more in Indiana 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· 37th of 49

$7,217

$3,981 physician + $3,236 facility

IN $37,047MD $4,049

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.