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Placing Heart-Lung Support Tubes Into The Chest

Alaska rates for HCPCS 33955

Opens the chest so that the tubes carrying blood to and from an external heart-lung support machine can be connected directly to the heart and the great vessels beside it. Placing them centrally allows very high flows and is used when tubes in the limbs or neck cannot deliver enough support. This version covers infants and young children.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placing Heart-Lung Support Tubes Into The Chest cost?

$2,884

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,884 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,884 from a physician practice, and about $2,455 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$2,884$1,380 to $4,571
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,455$1,023 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $977 to $12,023Professionalmedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $1,023 to $5,623
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,455professional $2,884

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$4,570.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,818.38
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$6,456.54
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$6,606.93
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$4,677.35
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$6,456.54
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$2,818.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$5,248.07

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 6.2 times more in California than in Kentucky. 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.

Alaska· 3rd of 51

$2,884

CA $5,623KY $912

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.