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Later Added Stent-Graft Section In Chest Aorta

South Carolina rates for HCPCS 33886

Places an additional lined tube inside the aorta, the main artery running down through the chest, to extend a stent-graft repair that was carried out at an earlier, separate session. It is delivered through a blood vessel using catheters and imaging rather than through an open chest. Extending the repair lets it seal against healthy vessel wall.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Later Added Stent-Graft Section In Chest Aorta cost?

$2,171

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,171 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,148 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,023 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$1,148$912 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,023$603 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $437 to $8,511Professionalmedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $81 to $1,778
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $1,023professional $1,148

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
$1,288.25
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$22,908.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,905.46
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,238.72
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,570.40
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,344.23
1 more rate 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
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$912.01

Where South Carolina sits

The same service costs 16.3 times more in Alabama than in Maryland. 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

South Carolina· 44th of 51

$2,171

$1,148 physician + $1,023 facility

AL $27,022MD $1,659

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.