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Aortic Valve Replacement Using Own Lung Valve

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 33413

Replaces a diseased aortic valve, the valve controlling blood leaving the heart, with the patient's own pulmonary valve moved into that position. A donor valve is then placed where the pulmonary valve used to sit. It is open-heart surgery performed with a heart-lung machine, chosen most often in younger patients so that lifelong blood-thinning medicine can be avoided.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Aortic Valve Replacement Using Own Lung Valve cost?

$3,802

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,802 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $4,467 from a physician practice, and about $955 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$4,467$3,715 to $5,129
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$955$550 to $2,291

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $389 to $3,981Professionalmedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $3,090 to $5,888
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $955professional $4,467

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
$3,235.94
Typical High
$4,466.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$4,897.79
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$5,754.40
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
$2,398.83
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$5,370.32
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$6,456.54
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
$1,905.46
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$2,454.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$741.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$3,467.37

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 6.3 times more in Alaska than in Arkansas. 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.

Louisiana· 31st of 51

$3,802

AK $12,589AR $1,995

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.