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Temporary Heart Pump Placed Through Blood Vessels

Montana 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?

$1,589

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,589 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $813 to the doctor who performs it, and $776 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$813$741 to $1,122
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$776$759 to $1,072

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $776 · 10th to 90th $759 to $1,122Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $525 to $2,239
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $776professional $813

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$2,238.72
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$831.76
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,122.02
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,122.02
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$851.14
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$870.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,548.82

Where Montana 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

Montana· 46th of 49

$1,589

$813 physician + $776 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.