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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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

$1,660

Typical negotiated rate. In Indiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,660 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,047 from a physician practice, and about $10,715 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$1,047$1,000 to $1,413
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10,715$7,586 to $16,982

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,715 · 10th to 90th $1,862 to $18,621Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $891 to $1,905
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $10,715professional $1,047

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
$1,000.00
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,230.27
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$13,803.84
Typical High
$18,620.87
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,137.96
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,905.46
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$12,882.50
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,862.09

Where Indiana 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.

Indiana· 17th of 51

$1,660

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.