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

Temporary pacing wire placed through a vein, one chamber

CPT 33210the billing code this page is about

Insertion or replacement of a temporary pacing wire or catheter passed through a vein into one heart chamber, used for short-term pacing.

Hospitals typically charge $6,878 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,027 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,995. Most fall between $2,785 and $12,599 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,027
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 2,027 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
$1,185$3,471$6,878$10,875$18,547

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,185 vs $18,547).

How the prices are spread

$603 – $879: 61 hospitals$603$879 – $1,282: 49 hospitals$1,282 – $1,870: 68 hospitals$1,282$1,870 – $2,726: 112 hospitals$2,726 – $3,975: 191 hospitals$2,726$3,975 – $5,795: 252 hospitals$5,795 – $8,449: 421 hospitals$5,795$8,449 – $12,319: 354 hospitals$12,319 – $17,962: 173 hospitals$12,319$17,962 – $26,189: 144 hospitals$17,962median $6,878price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,825 of 2,027 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$603$87961
$879$1,28249
$1,282$1,87068
$1,870$2,726112
$2,726$3,975191
$3,975$5,795252
$5,795$8,449421
$8,449$12,319354
$12,319$17,962173
$17,962$26,189144

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$8,455
Median cash price$6,878
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.81×

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 $6,878.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,465 across 15 hospitalsME$1,465Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $6,694 across 49 hospitalsWA$6,694Idaho: median $7,568 across 14 hospitalsID$7,568Montana: median $943 across 10 hospitalsMT$943North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $7,447 across 44 hospitalsMN$7,447Illinois: median $6,550 across 84 hospitalsIL$6,550Wisconsin: median $3,105 across 61 hospitalsWI$3,105Michigan: median $7,082 across 66 hospitalsMI$7,082New York: median $9,793 across 64 hospitalsNY$9,793Massachusetts: median $7,227 across 39 hospitalsMA$7,227Oregon: median $603 across 34 hospitalsOR$603Nevada: median $6,434 across 11 hospitalsNV$6,434Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $17,849 across 11 hospitalsSD$17,849Iowa: median $5,474 across 29 hospitalsIA$5,474Indiana: median $3,820 across 55 hospitalsIN$3,820Ohio: median $6,821 across 114 hospitalsOH$6,821Pennsylvania: median $8,484 across 90 hospitalsPA$8,484New Jersey: median $9,160 across 54 hospitalsNJ$9,160Connecticut: median $4,162 across 18 hospitalsCT$4,162Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $9,554 across 166 hospitalsCA$9,554Utah: median $18,547 across 27 hospitalsUT$18,547Colorado: median $4,817 across 40 hospitalsCO$4,817Nebraska: median $3,858 across 24 hospitalsNE$3,858Missouri: median $5,840 across 46 hospitalsMO$5,840Kentucky: median $7,135 across 35 hospitalsKY$7,135West Virginia: median $3,493 across 21 hospitalsWV$3,493Virginia: median $5,099 across 49 hospitalsVA$5,099Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $6,264 across 29 hospitalsAZ$6,264New Mexico: median $6,892 across 11 hospitalsNM$6,892Kansas: median $6,450 across 24 hospitalsKS$6,450Arkansas: median $4,878 across 14 hospitalsAR$4,878Tennessee: median $2,881 across 45 hospitalsTN$2,881North Carolina: median $4,929 across 54 hospitalsNC$4,929South Carolina: median $7,755 across 39 hospitalsSC$7,755Oklahoma: median $4,723 across 41 hospitalsOK$4,723Louisiana: median $4,348 across 42 hospitalsLA$4,348Mississippi: median $5,924 across 39 hospitalsMS$5,924Alabama: median $7,385 across 25 hospitalsAL$7,385Georgia: median $3,646 across 76 hospitalsGA$3,646Hawaii: median $8,240 across 12 hospitalsHI$8,240Texas: median $8,272 across 160 hospitalsTX$8,272Florida: median $11,395 across 94 hospitalsFL$11,395
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,878. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT27$18,547+170%$16,307 – $18,547
South Dakota SD11$17,849+160%$8,708 – $18,522
Florida FL94$11,395+66%$4,198 – $22,231
New York NY64$9,793+42%$4,265 – $17,904
California CA166$9,554+39%$6,211 – $17,689
New Jersey NJ54$9,160+33%$3,635 – $11,346
Pennsylvania PA90$8,484+23%$3,466 – $13,698
Texas TX160$8,272+20%$4,924 – $14,844
Hawaii HI12$8,240+20%$2,359 – $12,431
South Carolina SC39$7,755+13%$4,769 – $13,834
Idaho ID14$7,568+10%$4,250 – $9,410
Minnesota MN44$7,447+8%$2,313 – $9,803
Alabama AL25$7,385+7%$5,046 – $10,030
Massachusetts MA39$7,227+5%$2,785 – $12,293
Kentucky KY35$7,135+4%$965 – $26,694
Michigan MI66$7,082+3%$840 – $11,794
New Mexico NM11$6,8920%$4,685 – $11,101
Ohio OH114$6,821−1%$4,525 – $15,207
Washington WA49$6,694−3%$3,809 – $11,923
Illinois IL84$6,550−5%$2,782 – $15,141
Kansas KS24$6,450−6%$2,937 – $12,806
Nevada NV11$6,434−6%$5,793 – $9,001
Arizona AZ29$6,264−9%$2,285 – $12,851
Mississippi MS39$5,924−14%$2,771 – $6,777
Missouri MO46$5,840−15%$3,234 – $8,316
Iowa IA29$5,474−20%$940 – $7,704
Virginia VA49$5,099−26%$4,245 – $6,804
North Carolina NC54$4,929−28%$2,221 – $8,350
Arkansas AR14$4,878−29%$434 – $10,192
Colorado CO40$4,817−30%$2,760 – $9,893
Oklahoma OK41$4,723−31%$1,095 – $7,886
Louisiana LA42$4,348−37%$2,456 – $8,594
Connecticut CT18$4,162−39%$1,840 – $11,662
Nebraska NE24$3,858−44%$368 – $6,809
Indiana IN55$3,820−44%$1,664 – $6,983
Georgia GA76$3,646−47%$2,811 – $13,415
West Virginia WV21$3,493−49%$3,003 – $13,275
Wisconsin WI61$3,105−55%$1,336 – $9,559
Tennessee TN45$2,881−58%$1,899 – $4,535
Maine ME15$1,465−79%$624 – $8,165
Montana MT10$943−86%$534 – $6,727
Oregon OR34$603−91%$376 – $8,469
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $6,878.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,726$7,082$3,250 – $12,851
Children’s39$8,883$4,113 – $16,307
Critical access255$3,483$629 – $10,875
Ownership
For-profit243$8,272$3,646 – $18,897
Government266$5,551$1,899 – $9,893
Non-profit1,511$6,821$2,915 – $12,244
System affiliation
Part of a system1,720$6,890$2,933 – $12,806
Independent307$6,766$1,334 – $12,132

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$11,340
Median cash price$6,878
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

1,571 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,831 and the average of the middle 60% is $7,091; most fall between $3,044 and $12,806.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,571 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
$1,456$3,688$6,831$11,200$18,547

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,456 vs $18,547).

Of the 1,746 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,571 gave a usable cash price; 113 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,027 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,282 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,027
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here179
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code2,282

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 24, 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 Hp 33210 Insj/Rplcmt Temp Transvns 1chmbr Eltrd/Pm Cath.

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, “Temporary pacing wire placed through a vein, one chamber (CPT 33210) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33210-temporary-pacing-wire-placed-through-a-vein-one-chamber