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Daily Heart And Lung Machine Management

Montana 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?

$694

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $694 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $331 to the doctor who performs it, and $363 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$331$229 to $363
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$363$355 to $389

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $363 · 10th to 90th $355 to $813Professionalmedian $331 · 10th to 90th $79 to $407
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $363professional $331

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$707.95
BCBS Montana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$354.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$354.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$354.81
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$416.87
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$380.19
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$354.81
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$363.08
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$575.44

Where Montana 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

Montana· 51st of 51

$694

$331 physician + $363 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.