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Balloon Heart Pump Placed Through The Aorta

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 33973

Placement of a balloon pump inside the main artery leaving the heart to support a failing heart. The balloon inflates and deflates in time with the heartbeat, easing the heart's workload and improving blood flow to the heart muscle. In this version it is inserted directly into the ascending aorta through an opening in the chest, rather than being threaded up from a vessel in the groin.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Balloon Heart Pump Placed Through The Aorta cost?

$3,494

Typical total for the visit. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,494 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $676 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,818 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$676$550 to $1,096
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,818$759 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,818 · 10th to 90th $339 to $5,623Professionalmedian $676 · 10th to 90th $468 to $1,445
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,818professional $676

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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,584.89
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$4,265.80
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$5,623.41
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,412.54
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$4,897.79
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$870.96
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,888.44
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,258.93
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$4,265.80
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,445.44

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 10.1 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Massachusetts· 27th of 49

$3,494

$676 physician + $2,818 facility

IN $11,291WV $1,114

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.