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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

North Carolina 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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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?

$1,259

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,259 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,175 from a physician practice, and about $2,239 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 7 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$977 to $1,995
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,239$1,288 to $6,310

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $912 to $8,710Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $912 to $2,692
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,239professional $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
$912.01
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,454.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,630.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,511.89
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,905.46
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,398.83
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$5,623.41
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$7,943.28

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 35th of 51

$1,259

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.