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Temporary Heart Pump Placed Through Blood Vessels

Massachusetts 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?

$3,543

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,543 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $724 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,818 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$724$501 to $1,023
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,818$692 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,818 · 10th to 90th $407 to $5,623Professionalmedian $724 · 10th to 90th $427 to $1,259
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,818professional $724

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
$407.38
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,737.80
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$4,265.80
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$2,041.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,584.89
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$4,897.79
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$776.25
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,888.44
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,148.15
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$4,265.80
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,445.44

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 28th of 49

$3,543

$724 physician + $2,818 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.