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Procedure price report · Insertion, revision, replacement, removal of cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter/defibrillator

Implant of complete wireless heart pacing system

CPT 0515Tthe billing code this page is about

Placement of a wireless stimulator that paces the heart's left ventricle, including both the electrode and the generator parts, with device programming and imaging guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $27,811 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 159 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $33,895. Most fall between $17,838 and $51,503 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
159
States
28
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 159 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$9,030$19,885$27,811$47,512$61,783

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9,030 vs $61,783).

How the prices are spread

$7,447 – $9,248: 11 hospitals$7,447$9,248 – $11,486: 0 hospitals$11,486 – $14,264: 3 hospitals$11,486$14,264 – $17,715: 12 hospitals$17,715 – $22,000: 24 hospitals$17,715$22,000 – $27,322: 21 hospitals$27,322 – $33,931: 21 hospitals$27,322$33,931 – $42,139: 11 hospitals$42,139 – $52,332: 34 hospitals$42,139$52,332 – $64,992: 10 hospitals$52,332median $27,811price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (147 of 159 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7,447$9,24811
$9,248$11,4860
$11,486$14,2643
$14,264$17,71512
$17,715$22,00024
$22,000$27,32221
$27,322$33,93121
$33,931$42,13911
$42,139$52,33234
$52,332$64,99210

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$22,725
Median cash price$27,811
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $27,811.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $51,503 across 20 hospitalsCA$51,503Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $27,384 across 10 hospitalsCO$27,384Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $19,885 across 15 hospitalsGA$19,885Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $26,950 across 36 hospitalsTX$26,950Florida: median $43,133 across 15 hospitalsFL$43,133
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $27,811. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA20$51,503+85%$51,503 – $51,503
Florida FL15$43,133+55%$43,133 – $64,992
Colorado CO10$27,384−2%$23,472 – $41,874
Texas TX36$26,950−3%$26,950 – $33,617
Georgia GA15$19,885−28%$19,885 – $19,885
New York NY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $27,811.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care154$27,384$17,625 – $51,503
Critical access3fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit24$27,384$16,847 – $43,133
Government8fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit125$27,384$17,625 – $51,503
System affiliation
Part of a system148$27,384$18,805 – $51,503
Independent11fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$56,029
Median cash price$27,811
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

141 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $27,384 and the average of the middle 60% is $33,914; most fall between $17,838 and $51,503.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 141 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$11,825$19,688$27,384$43,133$51,503

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11,825 vs $51,503).

Of the 155 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 141 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

159 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 172 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted159
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here11
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code172

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Insertion, revision, replacement, removal of cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter/defibrillator family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Insertion Wrls Car Stimulator Lv Pacg Compl Sys.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Implant of complete wireless heart pacing system (CPT 0515T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0515t-implant-of-complete-wireless-heart-pacing-system