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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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

$1,175

Typical negotiated rate. In Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,175 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,096 from a physician practice, and about $4,898 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$1,096$977 to $1,288
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,898$2,630 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $6,918Professionalmedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $851 to $1,380
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,898professional $1,096

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
$1,230.27
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,918.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,288.25
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,380.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,513.56
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$7,943.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,778.28

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 40th of 51

$1,175

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.