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Surgery To Open A Narrowed Pulmonary Valve

Wisconsin rates for HCPCS 33471

An operation to widen the valve between the heart's right pumping chamber and the artery carrying blood to the lungs, when that valve is too tight for blood to pass through properly. The fused valve leaflets are cut apart so the valve opens fully again. The narrowing being treated is usually one the person was born with.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Surgery To Open A Narrowed Pulmonary Valve cost?

$16,982

Typical negotiated rate. In Wisconsin, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16,982 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $4,365 from a physician practice, and about $17,378 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 6 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$4,365$3,020 to $6,166
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$17,378$14,454 to $20,893

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $17,378 · 10th to 90th $12,023 to $30,200Professionalmedian $4,365 · 10th to 90th $2,344 to $13,490
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $17,378professional $4,365

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
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12,589.25
Median
$17,378.01
Typical High
$30,199.52
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$6,025.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$4,466.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$13,489.63
Typical High
$13,489.63
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$58.88
Quartz
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$8,128.31
Quartz
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,165.95
Median
$13,489.63
Typical High
$13,489.63
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$17,782.79
Typical High
$20,892.96

Where Wisconsin sits

The same service costs 37.2 times more in Indiana than in Texas. 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.

Wisconsin· 4th of 46

$16,982

IN $35,481TX $955

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.