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Surgical window in the heart sac for drainage

CPT 33025the billing code this page is about

Open surgery that removes a piece of the sac around the heart to create an opening so fluid can drain continuously.

Hospitals typically charge $2,159 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 533 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,454. Most fall between $1,112 and $5,339 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
533
States
48
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 533 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
$743$1,254$2,159$4,450$6,144

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($743 vs $6,144).

How the prices are spread

$512 – $678: 18 hospitals$512$678 – $898: 46 hospitals$898 – $1,189: 27 hospitals$898$1,189 – $1,575: 73 hospitals$1,575 – $2,085: 69 hospitals$1,575$2,085 – $2,761: 64 hospitals$2,761 – $3,656: 55 hospitals$2,761$3,656 – $4,842: 39 hospitals$4,842 – $6,411: 66 hospitals$4,842$6,411 – $8,490: 26 hospitals$6,411median $2,159price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (483 of 533 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$512$67818
$678$89846
$898$1,18927
$1,189$1,57573
$1,575$2,08569
$2,085$2,76164
$2,761$3,65655
$3,656$4,84239
$4,842$6,41166
$6,411$8,49026

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,159.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,628 across 18 hospitalsWA$1,628Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,323 across 22 hospitalsIL$1,323Wisconsin: median $6,144 across 27 hospitalsWI$6,144Michigan: median $2,851 across 34 hospitalsMI$2,851New York: median $1,833 across 31 hospitalsNY$1,833Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,794 across 15 hospitalsOR$1,794Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,877 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,877Indiana: median $1,323 across 11 hospitalsIN$1,323Ohio: median $4,342 across 53 hospitalsOH$4,342Pennsylvania: median $1,881 across 14 hospitalsPA$1,881New Jersey: median $4,881 across 16 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,165 across 20 hospitalsCA$2,165Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,378 across 16 hospitalsMO$1,378Kentucky: median $6,593 across 15 hospitalsKY$6,593West Virginia: median $870 across 15 hospitalsWV$870Virginia: median $1,236 across 12 hospitalsVA$1,236Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,254 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,254Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 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 $2,649 across 53 hospitalsTX$2,649Florida: median $7,231 across 26 hospitalsFL$7,231
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,159. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL26$7,231+235%$5,340 – $10,381
Kentucky KY15$6,593+205%$1,323 – $6,593
Wisconsin WI27$6,144+185%$831 – $7,848
New Jersey NJ16$4,881+126%$3,986 – $5,855
Ohio OH53$4,342+101%$2,009 – $5,785
Michigan MI34$2,851+32%$1,112 – $2,906
Texas TX53$2,649+23%$1,019 – $3,162
California CA20$2,1650%$439 – $9,135
Pennsylvania PA14$1,881−13%$492 – $3,134
Iowa IA17$1,877−13%$1,749 – $3,358
New York NY31$1,833−15%$912 – $2,786
Oregon OR15$1,794−17%$1,394 – $3,125
Washington WA18$1,628−25%$926 – $4,640
Missouri MO16$1,378−36%$1,290 – $2,003
Illinois IL22$1,323−39%$1,215 – $2,562
Indiana IN11$1,323−39%$922 – $1,323
Oklahoma OK13$1,254−42%$1,254 – $1,254
Virginia VA12$1,236−43%$512 – $3,904
West Virginia WV15$870−60%$821 – $2,207
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,159.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care453$2,223$1,126 – $5,192
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$1,794$831 – $6,144
Ownership
For-profit37$1,985$1,254 – $5,340
Government64$1,864$897 – $5,058
Non-profit427$2,265$1,112 – $5,340
System affiliation
Part of a system458$2,244$1,112 – $5,340
Independent75$1,933$937 – $4,224

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,458
Median cash price$2,159
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

420 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,071 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,351; most fall between $1,123 and $4,944.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 420 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
$736$1,254$2,071$4,087$6,144

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($736 vs $6,144).

Of the 470 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 420 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

533 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 618 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted533
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code618

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 23, 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 Crtj Pericardial Window/Prtl Resecj W/Drg/Bx.

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, “Surgical window in the heart sac for drainage (CPT 33025) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33025-surgical-window-in-the-heart-sac-for-drainage