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Temporary Heart Pump Placed Through Blood Vessels

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 33991

Places a temporary mechanical pump to support a failing left pumping chamber of the heart, threaded in through blood vessels rather than by opening the chest. Working under X-ray guidance, the doctor positions the pump so it moves blood forward while the heart recovers or while longer-term treatment is arranged.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Temporary Heart Pump Placed Through Blood Vessels cost?

$3,562

Typical total for the visit. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,562 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,692 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$871$724 to $955
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,692$933 to $3,631

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $724 to $5,370Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $550 to $1,122
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $871

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
$870.96
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$5,754.40
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$812.83
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,122.02
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 33.2 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Louisiana· 27th of 49

$3,562

$871 physician + $2,692 facility

IN $34,487WV $1,039

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.