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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

Florida 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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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?

$1,230

Typical negotiated rate. In Florida, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,230 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,000 from a physician practice, and about $8,511 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$1,000$851 to $1,148
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8,511$3,311 to $12,882

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,511 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $25,119Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $813 to $1,995
$100$1K$10Kfacility $8,511professional $1,000

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
$1,047.13
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$12,022.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,677.35
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$12,882.50
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$10,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,089.30
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,332.54
Median
$21,379.62
Typical High
$33,884.42
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,047.13
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$9,549.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,187.76
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,000.00

Where Florida 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.

Florida· 38th of 51

$1,230

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.