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Heart Conduit to the Lung Artery

Kansas rates for HCPCS 33608

Open-heart surgery for a complex heart defect present from birth. A tube, or conduit, is built or replaced to carry blood from a pumping chamber of the heart to the artery that supplies the lungs, giving blood a proper route to pick up oxygen.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Conduit to the Lung Artery cost?

$2,818

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,818 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,239 from a physician practice, and about $4,467 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 5 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$2,239$2,239 to $2,818
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,467$3,020 to $7,413

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $10,471Professionalmedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $3,020
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $4,467professional $2,239

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
$3,019.95
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$3,019.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$2,818.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,981.07
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$5,623.41
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$23,442.29
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$3,235.94

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 6.3 times more in California than in Mississippi. 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.

Kansas· 21st of 51

$2,818

CA $12,589MS $1,995

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.