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Placing A Heart Pump Sited Outside The Body

Alaska rates for HCPCS 33975

Connects a mechanical pump that sits outside the body to one of the heart's lower chambers, using tubes passed through the chest wall to draw blood from the heart and return it to the main artery. The chest is opened to attach the tubes, usually with a heart-lung machine supporting the circulation during the operation. It supports a severely failing heart while it recovers or while longer-term plans are made.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Placing A Heart Pump Sited Outside The Body cost?

$12,373

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12,373 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $5,129 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,244 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$5,129$1,820 to $5,129
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,244$1,820 to $16,596

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,244 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $251,189Professionalmedian $5,129 · 10th to 90th $1,349 to $7,413
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $7,244professional $5,129

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). 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
None
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$14,125.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,466.84
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$10,232.93
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$8,709.64
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,128.61
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$5,128.61
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$251,188.64
Typical High
$346,736.85
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$8,317.64

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 9.4 times more in Alabama than in Delaware. 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

Alaska· 4th of 51

$12,373

$5,129 physician + $7,244 facility

AL $19,561DE $2,073

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.