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Implanting A Heart Pump Inside The Body

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 33979

Places a mechanical pump inside the chest to help one of the heart's lower chambers push blood out to the body, with a thin cable passing through the skin to a controller and batteries worn outside. The chest is opened and a heart-lung machine takes over the circulation while the pump is attached to the heart and the main artery. It supports people with severe heart failure, either long term or while they wait for a transplant.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Implanting A Heart Pump Inside The Body cost?

$7,143

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,143 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,981 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,162 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$3,981$3,236 to $4,467
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,162$676 to $11,482

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,162 · 10th to 90th $537 to $77,625Professionalmedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $2,344 to $5,370
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $3,162professional $3,981

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
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$3,890.45
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$57,543.99
Median
$77,624.71
Typical High
$158,489.32
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$5,754.40
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$4,365.16
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$21,877.62
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$5,754.40
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$5,370.32

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 7.3 times more in Alabama than in Maryland. 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

Nebraska· 13th of 51

$7,143

$3,981 physician + $3,162 facility

AL $20,413MD $2,801

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.