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Daily Heart And Lung Machine Management

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 33949

The medical team's day-by-day management of a patient supported by an external machine that both pumps blood and adds oxygen to it, taking over for the heart as well as the lungs. Blood is drawn from a vein and returned into an artery. This covers one day of adjusting flows, gas settings, blood thinning and monitoring, and is charged for each day support continues.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Daily Heart And Lung Machine Management cost?

$1,347

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,347 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $324 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$324$269 to $417
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,023$562 to $1,622

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $398 to $3,548Professionalmedian $324 · 10th to 90th $245 to $437
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,023professional $324

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
$398.11
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$363.08
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$416.87
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$389.05
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$501.19
6 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
$134.90
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$173.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$263.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$52.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$35.48
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
GC · Resident with teaching physician
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 7.5 times more in Alaska than in Montana. 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

Louisiana· 27th of 51

$1,347

$324 physician + $1,023 facility

AK $5,178MT $694

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.