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Starting Vein-To-Vein ECMO Life Support

Mississippi rates for HCPCS 33946

Covers the physician work of setting up and starting an external machine that draws blood from a vein, adds oxygen and removes carbon dioxide, then returns the blood to a vein. This form supports failing lungs while the patient's own heart continues to do the pumping. It covers getting the support running, not the day-to-day management afterwards.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Starting Vein-To-Vein ECMO Life Support cost?

$1,352

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,352 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $501 to the doctor who performs it, and $851 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$501$324 to $708
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$851$562 to $1,230

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $851 · 10th to 90th $372 to $2,570Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $295 to $1,445
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $851professional $501

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
$309.03
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,445.44
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$537.03
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$831.76
5 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
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$288.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,071.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$144.54

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 6.1 times more in Alaska 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

Mississippi· 31st of 51

$1,352

$501 physician + $851 facility

AK $5,496MD $901

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.