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Opening the heart sac to remove a clot or foreign object

CPT 33020the billing code this page is about

Open surgery that cuts into the sac around the heart to take out a blood clot or a foreign body.

Hospitals typically charge $2,014 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 359 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,305. Most fall between $1,179 and $4,149 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
359
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 359 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
$852$1,341$2,014$3,864$5,889

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($852 vs $5,889).

How the prices are spread

$570 – $740: 9 hospitals$570$740 – $959: 34 hospitals$959 – $1,244: 18 hospitals$959$1,244 – $1,613: 64 hospitals$1,613 – $2,092: 47 hospitals$1,613$2,092 – $2,713: 24 hospitals$2,713 – $3,519: 34 hospitals$2,713$3,519 – $4,564: 43 hospitals$4,564 – $5,919: 36 hospitals$4,564$5,919 – $7,677: 16 hospitals$5,919median $2,014price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (325 of 359 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$570$7409
$740$95934
$959$1,24418
$1,244$1,61364
$1,613$2,09247
$2,092$2,71324
$2,713$3,51934
$3,519$4,56443
$4,564$5,91936
$5,919$7,67716

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,014.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,689 across 12 hospitalsWA$2,689Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth 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: median $1,540 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,540Wisconsin: median $4,633 across 26 hospitalsWI$4,633Michigan: median $2,907 across 26 hospitalsMI$2,907New York: median $1,793 across 11 hospitalsNY$1,793Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,922 across 20 hospitalsOR$1,922Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,014 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,014Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,066 across 20 hospitalsOH$2,066Pennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $4,881 across 15 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,013 across 28 hospitalsCA$4,013Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,493 across 11 hospitalsMO$1,493Kentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $923 across 10 hospitalsWV$923Virginia: median $954 across 18 hospitalsVA$954Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,341 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,341Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,433 across 39 hospitalsTX$1,433Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,014. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ15$4,881+142%$3,641 – $5,741
Wisconsin WI26$4,633+130%$3,864 – $7,677
California CA28$4,013+99%$1,050 – $5,718
Michigan MI26$2,907+44%$1,179 – $2,907
Washington WA12$2,689+34%$1,670 – $10,508
Ohio OH20$2,066+3%$1,649 – $3,721
Iowa IA15$2,0140%$2,014 – $2,014
Oregon OR20$1,922−5%$1,497 – $3,809
New York NY11$1,793−11%$1,793 – $2,667
Illinois IL16$1,540−24%$652 – $3,290
Missouri MO11$1,493−26%$1,207 – $7,596
Texas TX39$1,433−29%$1,433 – $1,433
Oklahoma OK10$1,341−33%$1,341 – $1,341
Virginia VA18$954−53%$954 – $2,904
West Virginia WV10$923−54%$882 – $1,477
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $2,014.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care282$1,834$1,179 – $4,149
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$2,907$942 – $4,633
Ownership
For-profit23$1,433$652 – $2,409
Government46$2,302$990 – $3,117
Non-profit289$2,014$1,207 – $4,633
System affiliation
Part of a system301$2,014$1,179 – $4,350
Independent58$2,302$1,271 – $4,004

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,517
Median cash price$2,014
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

269 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,834 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,166; most fall between $1,050 and $3,864.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 269 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
$833$1,341$1,834$3,809$5,718

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($833 vs $5,718).

Of the 307 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 269 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

359 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 413 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted359
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code413

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR heart procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Pericardiotomy Removal Clot/Foreign Body Primary.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Opening the heart sac to remove a clot or foreign object (CPT 33020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33020-opening-the-heart-sac-to-remove-a-clot-or-foreign-object