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Shoulder Artery Exposure With Graft Conduit

Maine rates for HCPCS 34716

Opens the skin near the collarbone or armpit to reach the large artery there and stitches a short length of graft tubing onto it, creating a temporary channel wide enough to pass stent graft equipment or to connect a heart-lung machine. It is used when the arteries in the groin are too small or too diseased to serve as the access route. It covers one side.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Shoulder Artery Exposure With Graft Conduit cost?

$1,050

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,050 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $525 to the doctor who performs it, and $525 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$525$437 to $617
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$525$501 to $708

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $525 · 10th to 90th $501 to $708Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $355 to $692
$500$1K$2Kfacility $525professional $525

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$691.83
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,047.13
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$109.65
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$97.72
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$776.25
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$707.95
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$660.69
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$691.83

Where Maine sits

The same service costs 9.7 times more in Alabama than in Delaware. 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

Maine· 38th of 51

$1,050

$525 physician + $525 facility

AL $5,872DE $606

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.