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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 July 2026.

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

$3,802

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 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 $3,162 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$4,467$3,802 to $4,898
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,162$1,202 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,162 · 10th to 90th $891 to $4,467Professionalmedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $3,236 to $5,370
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,162professional $4,467

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
$4,466.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$5,128.61
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$5,754.40
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$5,888.44
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
$2,951.21
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$7,079.46

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.7 times more in California 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· 37th of 51

$3,802

CA $13,183AR $3,548

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.