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Starting ECMO Support For The Heart And Lungs

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 33947

Starts extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, known as ECMO, in the setup where blood is drawn from a vein, passed through a machine that adds oxygen and removes carbon dioxide, and returned into an artery. Because it is returned into the arterial side under pressure, the machine takes over pumping work as well as the work of the lungs. It covers the physician work of getting the circuit running and stable.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Starting ECMO Support For The Heart And Lungs cost?

$1,649

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,649 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $447 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,202 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$447$380 to $562
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,202$575 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $372 to $6,457Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $331 to $676
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,202professional $447

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
$3,715.35
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$676.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$616.60

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 6.1 times more in Alaska than in Arkansas. 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

Rhode Island· 25th of 51

$1,649

$447 physician + $1,202 facility

AK $5,615AR $928

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.