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

Insertion of a defibrillator lead under the breastbone

CPT 0572Tthe billing code this page is about

Placement of an electrode (lead) beneath the sternum for an implantable defibrillator system; this code covers the lead insertion only, not the pulse generator.

Hospitals typically charge $6,541 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 213 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $8,021. Most fall between $4,320 and $15,876 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
213
States
32
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 213 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
$3,278$4,857$6,541$11,939$22,309

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,278 vs $22,309).

How the prices are spread

$2,413 – $3,098: 8 hospitals$2,413$3,098 – $3,978: 23 hospitals$3,978 – $5,108: 22 hospitals$3,978$5,108 – $6,558: 47 hospitals$6,558 – $8,421: 7 hospitals$6,558$8,421 – $10,812: 40 hospitals$10,812 – $13,882: 4 hospitals$10,812$13,882 – $17,825: 24 hospitals$17,825 – $22,887: 9 hospitals$17,825$22,887 – $29,386: 9 hospitals$22,887median $6,541price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (193 of 213 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$2,413$3,0988
$3,098$3,97823
$3,978$5,10822
$5,108$6,55847
$6,558$8,4217
$8,421$10,81240
$10,812$13,8824
$13,882$17,82524
$17,825$22,8879
$22,887$29,3869

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$8,455
Median cash price$6,541
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.77×

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 $6,541.

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: median $5,265 across 15 hospitalsWA$5,265Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $2,757 across 21 hospitalsIN$2,757Ohio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,541 across 28 hospitalsCA$6,541Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 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 $4,857 across 11 hospitalsGA$4,857Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $9,538 across 41 hospitalsTX$9,538Florida: median $15,876 across 19 hospitalsFL$15,876
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,541. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL19$15,876+143%$4,924 – $22,309
Texas TX41$9,538+46%$9,538 – $9,538
California CA28$6,5410%$6,541 – $26,265
Washington WA15$5,265−20%$3,237 – $17,410
Georgia GA11$4,857−26%$4,857 – $4,857
Indiana IN21$2,757−58%$2,049 – $4,518
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $6,541.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care189$6,541$4,857 – $15,876
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access20$3,746$3,011 – $9,538
Ownership
For-profit25$9,538$4,857 – $15,876
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit171$6,541$3,842 – $15,876
System affiliation
Part of a system201$6,541$4,286 – $15,876
Independent12fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$15,897
Median cash price$6,541
Cash as a share of list, median hospital54%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 46%. 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

178 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,541 and the average of the middle 60% is $8,109; most fall between $4,857 and $15,876.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 178 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
$3,499$4,857$6,541$9,778$19,606

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,499 vs $19,606).

Of the 202 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 178 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

213 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 243 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted213
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code243

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 4, 2026 and September 24, 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 Insj Substernal Implantable Defibrillator Eltrd.

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, “Insertion of a defibrillator lead under the breastbone (CPT 0572T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0572t-insertion-of-a-defibrillator-lead-under-the-breastbone