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Temporary Heart Pump Placed Through Blood Vessels

Nebraska 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 October 2026.

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

$4,114

Typical total for the visit. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,114 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,023 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,090 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,023$851 to $1,413
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,090$631 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $490 to $77,625Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $741 to $1,698
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $3,090professional $1,023

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,445.44
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$57,543.99
Median
$77,624.71
Typical High
$158,489.32
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,412.54
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$4,365.16
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$3,162.28
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,412.54
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,737.80

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 13.6 times more in Colorado than in Maryland. 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

Nebraska· 9th of 51

$4,114

$1,023 physician + $3,090 facility

CO $15,162MD $1,112

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.