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Removing An External Pump For Both Heart Chambers

Tennessee rates for HCPCS 33978

Takes out a mechanical pump sitting outside the body that has been supporting both the right and left pumping chambers of the heart, along with the tubes connecting it to the heart. It is done once the heart has recovered enough to work on its own, or at the time of a heart transplant. It is open chest surgery under general anesthesia with intensive care afterward.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Removing An External Pump For Both Heart Chambers cost?

$2,089

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,089 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,820 from a physician practice, and about $2,570 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 5 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$1,820$1,479 to $2,344
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,570$1,995 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,570 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $6,457Professionalmedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $3,802
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,570professional $1,820

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
$1,819.70
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,754.23
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$4,570.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,818.38
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$8,128.31
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,748.98
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$18,620.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$4,365.16
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,090.30

Where Tennessee sits

The same service costs 7.1 times more in California 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.

Tennessee· 24th of 51

$2,089

CA $10,233WV $1,445

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.