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

Removal of one pacing lead, heart-boosting defibrillator

CPT 0920Tthe billing code this page is about

Removal of a single vein-placed pacing lead belonging to an implanted cardiac contractility modulation defibrillator system; covers the lead only.

Hospitals typically charge $3,832 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 167 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,933. Most fall between $2,246 and $8,025 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
167
States
27
Filings dated
Jun 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 167 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
$2,184$2,344$3,832$6,501$11,949

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,184 vs $11,949).

How the prices are spread

$1,414 – $1,802: 9 hospitals$1,414$1,802 – $2,296: 27 hospitals$2,296 – $2,925: 18 hospitals$2,296$2,925 – $3,727: 22 hospitals$3,727 – $4,748: 23 hospitals$3,727$4,748 – $6,049: 17 hospitals$6,049 – $7,707: 9 hospitals$6,049$7,707 – $9,819: 6 hospitals$9,819 – $12,510: 19 hospitals$9,819$12,510 – $15,939: 4 hospitals$12,510median $3,832price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (154 of 167 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,414$1,8029
$1,802$2,29627
$2,296$2,92518
$2,925$3,72722
$3,727$4,74823
$4,748$6,04917
$6,049$7,7079
$7,707$9,8196
$9,819$12,51019
$12,510$15,9394

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,818
Median cash price$3,832
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $3,832.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $11,949 across 10 hospitalsIL$11,949Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,428 across 18 hospitalsOH$4,428Pennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 7 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 $2,246 across 22 hospitalsCA$2,246Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: median $2,593 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,593Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 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: median $4,946 across 10 hospitalsNC$4,946South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,414 across 13 hospitalsTX$1,414Florida: median $10,030 across 12 hospitalsFL$10,030
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,832. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL10$11,949+212%$3,313 – $11,949
Florida FL12$10,030+162%$8,025 – $10,030
North Carolina NC10$4,946+29%$4,946 – $4,946
Ohio OH18$4,428+16%$2,705 – $4,428
Nebraska NE10$2,593−32%$2,548 – $3,108
California CA22$2,246−41%$2,246 – $2,246
Texas TX13$1,414−63%$1,414 – $3,238
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $3,832.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care156$3,832$2,246 – $8,025
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government20$4,946$4,919 – $8,025
Non-profit137$3,495$2,246 – $8,043
System affiliation
Part of a system162$3,818$2,246 – $8,025
Independent5fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,497
Median cash price$3,832
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

145 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,832 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,966; most fall between $2,246 and $8,583.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 145 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
$1,934$2,246$3,832$6,501$11,945

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,934 vs $11,945).

Of the 152 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 145 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

167 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 177 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted167
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code177

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 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 PR Rmvl Perm Ccm-D Sys 1 Transvns Pacing Lead Only.

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, “Removal of one pacing lead, heart-boosting defibrillator (CPT 0920T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0920t-removal-of-one-pacing-lead-heart-boosting-defibrillator