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Heart Conduit to the Lung Artery

North Dakota 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?

$3,090

Typical negotiated rate. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,090 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,388 from a physician practice, and about $1,738 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$3,388$1,820 to $3,890
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,738$1,738 to $1,820

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,738 · 10th to 90th $1,738 to $8,511Professionalmedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $1,738 to $4,571
$2K$5Kfacility $1,738professional $3,388

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
$1,737.80
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,570.40
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$4,570.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$5,128.61
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$5,248.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$4,365.16

Where North Dakota 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.

North Dakota· 17th of 51

$3,090

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.