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Placement Of A Heart Vent During Life Support

Oklahoma rates for HCPCS 33988

Places a small drainage tube into the left side of the heart through an incision in the chest, in a patient being supported by an external heart-lung machine. The tube lets blood drain out of the left side of the heart so that chamber does not become overfilled and stretched while the machine is doing the work of circulating blood. It is done in an operating room or intensive care setting as part of the support system, not as a repair of the heart itself.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placement Of A Heart Vent During Life Support cost?

$1,259

Typical negotiated rate. In Oklahoma, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,259 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $955 from a physician practice, and about $1,622 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 4 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$955$891 to $1,047
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,622$1,000 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $955 to $6,457Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $708 to $1,349
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,622professional $955

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
$954.99
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,348.96
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$6,309.57
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$6,165.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,318.26

Where Oklahoma sits

The same service costs 8.7 times more in California than in Kentucky. 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.

Oklahoma· 21st of 51

$1,259

CA $7,413KY $851

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.