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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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

$1,514

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,514 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,175 from a physician practice, and about $3,802 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$1,175$1,148 to $1,514
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,802$1,660 to $7,413

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $10,471Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $955 to $1,549
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,802professional $1,175

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
$1,548.82
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,862.09
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$4,897.79
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,698.24

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 22nd of 51

$1,514

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.