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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

Alaska rates for HCPCS 33621

A procedure in which a catheter is passed directly through the chest wall into the heart so a small mesh tube can be positioned in a vessel to hold it open. The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed. This route avoids threading a catheter all the way up from a vessel in the groin.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall cost?

$3,311

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,311 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,311 from a physician practice, and about $2,754 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 6 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$3,311$1,445 to $5,129
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,754$1,175 to $7,079

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $1,096 to $12,023Professionalmedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $1,148 to $6,166
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,754professional $3,311

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$5,128.61
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,090.30
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$7,079.46
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$6,165.95
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$5,128.61
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$7,079.46
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$5,754.40

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 9.1 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.

Alaska· 4th of 51

$3,311

CA $9,333KY $1,023

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.