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Aortic Root Repair Sparing The Valve

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 33864

Replaces the widened first section of the aorta, the main artery leaving the heart, with a fabric tube while keeping the person's own aortic valve and resuspending it inside the new tube. The arteries that feed the heart muscle are detached and sewn back onto the graft. The operation is done through the breastbone with a heart-lung machine taking over circulation.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Aortic Root Repair Sparing The Valve cost?

$9,843

Typical total for the visit. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9,843 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $6,607 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$6,607$5,248 to $7,413
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$631 to $11,482

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $537 to $26,915Professionalmedian $6,607 · 10th to 90th $3,802 to $8,913
$100$1K$10Kfacility $3,236professional $6,607

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$7,762.47
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18,620.87
Median
$25,118.86
Typical High
$50,118.72
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$9,549.93
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$5,248.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$30,199.52
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$9,549.93
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$8,912.51

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 6.8 times more in Alaska than in Washington. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Nebraska· 10th of 51

$9,843

$6,607 physician + $3,236 facility

AK $24,612WA $3,608

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.