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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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

$2,291

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,291 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,148 from a physician practice, and about $4,266 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$1,148$977 to $1,413
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,266$2,512 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,266 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $8,511Professionalmedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $912 to $2,399
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,266professional $1,148

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
$1,122.02
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$4,265.80
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,317.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,819.70
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,288.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,290.87
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$11,481.54
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$10,471.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,454.71

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 6th of 51

$2,291

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.