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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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

$1,096

Typical negotiated rate. In Pennsylvania, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,096 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,047 from a physician practice, and about $5,370 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 8 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$977 to $1,175
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,370$1,585 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $8,511Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $912 to $1,778
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,370professional $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
$1,096.48
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,513.56
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20,417.38
Median
$21,379.62
Typical High
$57,543.99
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,862.09
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,548.82
Geisinger
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,819.70
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$8,511.38
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,949.84
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,000.00
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,949.84

Where Pennsylvania 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.

Pennsylvania· 46th of 51

$1,096

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.