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Temporary Heart Pump Placed Through a Vessel

Texas rates for HCPCS 33990

Inserts a temporary mechanical pump that helps a failing heart move blood, threading it into position through a blood vessel rather than opening the chest. X-ray guidance is used to place it, and the imaging and its interpretation are part of the service. It supports the circulation for a short period during or after a heart crisis or procedure.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Temporary Heart Pump Placed Through a Vessel cost?

$1,820

Typical facility fee. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,820 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $646 to $4,169.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $389 to $8,511
$100$1K$10Kfacility $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
$436.52
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$12,882.50
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$4,466.84
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$309.03
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$2,187.76
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$218.78
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$954.99
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$954.99
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 95.5 times more in Indiana than in Hawaii. 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· 32nd of 49

$1,820

IN $33,884HI $355

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.