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Starting Vein-To-Vein ECMO Life Support

Oklahoma 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?

$1,844

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,844 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,445 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$398$355 to $479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,445$501 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $380 to $6,310Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $295 to $575
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,445professional $398

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
$1,000.00
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$18,620.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$3,890.45
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$524.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$5,888.44
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$524.81

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 20th of 51

$1,844

$398 physician + $1,445 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.