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Heart Bypass With Six Or More Vein Grafts

Iowa rates for HCPCS 33516

Reroutes blood around blocked heart arteries using six or more lengths of vein, usually taken from the leg, sewn from the main artery leaving the heart to points beyond each blockage. Using this many grafts reflects disease affecting several arteries at once. It is open heart surgery on a heart-lung machine, with several days in hospital and a recovery of weeks to months.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Bypass With Six Or More Vein Grafts cost?

$5,012

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,012 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,981 from a physician practice, and about $6,026 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 8 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$3,981$3,162 to $7,244
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,026$4,365 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $3,981 to $7,943Professionalmedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $2,692 to $14,791
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $6,026professional $3,981

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
$3,981.07
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$14,791.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$7,244.36
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$10,232.93
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$7,762.47
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$8,511.38
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$7,762.47
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$8,317.64
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$8,128.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$8,317.64
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$6,165.95

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 4.5 times more in California than in Kentucky. 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.

Iowa· 11th of 51

$5,012

CA $13,183KY $2,951

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.