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Implanting A Heart Pump Inside The Body

Texas 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 July 2026.

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

$3,467

Typical facility fee. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,467 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,862 to $4,677.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,467 · 10th to 90th $794 to $10,471
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,467

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
$1,000.00
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$12,302.69
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$1,737.80
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$11,748.98
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,174.90
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,786.30
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$9,332.54

Where Texas sits

The same service costs 26.3 times more in Indiana than in Wyoming. 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.

Texas· 33rd of 49

$3,467

IN $33,884WY $1,288

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.