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Aortic Root Repair Sparing The Valve

Texas 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?

$4,280

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,280 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,042 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,239 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 10 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$2,042$229 to $3,020
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,239$851 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $490 to $10,471Professionalmedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $43 to $4,266
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $2,239professional $2,042

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
$1,122.02
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$4,168.69
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$3,630.78
BCBS Texas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$5,495.41
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$5,495.41
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$31,622.78
Median
$31,622.78
Typical High
$31,622.78
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$6,918.31
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$4,466.84
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$2,884.03
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$251,188.64
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$5,495.41
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$2,951.21
4 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$2,951.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$2,754.23
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$2,951.21
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$2,754.23

Where Texas 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

Texas· 48th of 51

$4,280

$2,042 physician + $2,239 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.