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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

South Dakota 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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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?

$1,622

Typical negotiated rate. In South Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,622 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,622 from a physician practice, and about $1,995 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$1,622$933 to $1,995
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,995$1,259 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,995 · 10th to 90th $912 to $4,365Professionalmedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $871 to $2,512
$1K$2Kfacility $1,995professional $1,622

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. 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
$4,365.16
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,511.89
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,398.83
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$6,606.93
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,454.71
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,238.72

Where South Dakota 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.

South Dakota· 19th of 51

$1,622

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.