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Repair Of Heart Wall Rupture After Heart Attack

Alabama rates for HCPCS 33545

Emergency open-heart surgery to close a hole that has torn through the wall between the two lower chambers of the heart following a heart attack. The surgeon patches the hole and may trim away muscle that has died. It is a high-risk operation carried out because the tear otherwise overwhelms the circulation.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Repair Of Heart Wall Rupture After Heart Attack cost?

$9,086

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9,086 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $5,370 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,715 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$5,370$3,467 to $5,370
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,715$1,259 to $19,953

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $813 to $23,988Professionalmedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $2,951 to $6,761
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,715professional $5,370

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
$954.99
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$6,760.83
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16,982.44
Median
$20,417.38
Typical High
$27,542.29
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$5,011.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$5,128.61

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 8.7 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

Alabama· 25th of 49

$9,086

$5,370 physician + $3,715 facility

IN $37,352MD $4,291

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.