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Aortic Valve Replacement Using The Patient's Own Valve

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 33440

Open-heart surgery in which a diseased aortic valve is replaced with the patient's own pulmonary valve, moved into that position. A donor valve is then placed where the pulmonary valve was. Using living tissue avoids lifelong blood-thinning medicine and allows the valve to grow with a child.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Aortic Valve Replacement Using The Patient's Own Valve cost?

$4,677

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,677 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5,129 from a physician practice, and about $3,020 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$5,129$3,981 to $8,710
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,020$813 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $347 to $5,012Professionalmedian $5,129 · 10th to 90th $3,020 to $22,909
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,020professional $5,129

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
$2,691.53
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,128.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,548.13
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$5,888.44
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$22,908.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,128.61
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,912.51
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$5,128.61
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$5,128.61
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,073.80
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$10,471.29
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$5,888.44
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$22,908.68
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$14,791.08
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$5,011.87
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,162.28
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
$1,174.90
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$741.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,818.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$562.34
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$371.54
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$7,244.36

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 7.4 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.

Massachusetts· 20th of 51

$4,677

AK $13,490AR $1,820

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.