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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

West Virginia 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 The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed.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?

$1,047

Typical negotiated rate. In West Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,047 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,047 from a physician practice, and about $955 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 4 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 $1,148
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$955$955 to $1,230

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $955 to $1,413Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $955 to $1,349
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $955professional $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
$954.99
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,412.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,148.15
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,230.27
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,548.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,659.59

Where West Virginia 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.

West Virginia· 50th of 51

$1,047

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.