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Heart Bypass With Five Vein Grafts

North Carolina rates for HCPCS 33514

Reroutes blood around blocked heart arteries using five lengths of vein, usually taken from the leg, sewn from the main artery leaving the heart to points beyond each blockage. The number of grafts reflects how many arteries are narrowed enough to need bypassing. It is open heart surgery on a heart-lung machine, with several days in hospital and a recovery measured in weeks to months.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Bypass With Five Vein Grafts cost?

$7,789

Typical total for the visit. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,789 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,715 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,074 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$3,715$2,512 to $6,166
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,074$2,512 to $7,586

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $1,660 to $9,772Professionalmedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $2,512 to $7,943
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,074professional $3,715

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
$1,659.59
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$8,317.64
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$7,585.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$6,918.31
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,456.54
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$15,848.93
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23,442.29
Median
$23,442.29
Typical High
$23,442.29

Where North Carolina sits

The same service costs 9.8 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

North Carolina· 30th of 49

$7,789

$3,715 physician + $4,074 facility

IN $36,836MD $3,751

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.