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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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

$1,479

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,479 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,288 from a physician practice, and about $2,512 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$1,288$1,047 to $1,660
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,512$1,950 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,512 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $5,623Professionalmedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $891 to $2,188
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,512professional $1,288

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
$1,819.70
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,949.84
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$4,570.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,995.26
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$5,623.41
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$7,943.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$4,365.16
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,137.96

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 24th of 51

$1,479

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.