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Replacement Of An Implanted Heart Pump

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 33983

Surgery to exchange the pump of an implanted mechanical device that helps one of the heart's pumping chambers push blood around the body. The old pump is taken out and a new one is connected in its place.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Replacement Of An Implanted Heart Pump cost?

$8,022

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,022 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $4,786 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 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$4,786$3,802 to $5,370
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$631 to $11,482

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $537 to $77,625Professionalmedian $4,786 · 10th to 90th $2,754 to $6,457
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $3,236professional $4,786

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
$2,089.30
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
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
$4,168.69
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$6,760.83
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,365.16
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$16,218.10
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$6,760.83
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,162.28
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,309.57

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 6.6 times more in Alaska 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· 12th of 51

$8,022

$4,786 physician + $3,236 facility

AK $20,935MD $3,193

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.