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

Temporary pacing wires placed through a vein, two chambers

CPT 33211the billing code this page is about

Insertion or replacement of temporary pacing wires passed through a vein into two heart chambers for short-term pacing.

Hospitals typically charge $6,821 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 937 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,992. Most fall between $2,620 and $13,755 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
937
States
49
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 937 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
$858$3,314$6,821$11,524$18,305

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($858 vs $18,305).

How the prices are spread

$417 – $627: 36 hospitals$417$627 – $944: 31 hospitals$944 – $1,421: 18 hospitals$944$1,421 – $2,139: 43 hospitals$2,139 – $3,219: 56 hospitals$2,139$3,219 – $4,845: 117 hospitals$4,845 – $7,293: 160 hospitals$4,845$7,293 – $10,976: 186 hospitals$10,976 – $16,521: 127 hospitals$10,976$16,521 – $24,865: 74 hospitals$16,521median $6,821price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (848 of 937 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$417$62736
$627$94431
$944$1,42118
$1,421$2,13943
$2,139$3,21956
$3,219$4,845117
$4,845$7,293160
$7,293$10,976186
$10,976$16,521127
$16,521$24,86574

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$8,455
Median cash price$6,821
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 $6,821.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $7,378 across 29 hospitalsWA$7,378Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $9,442 across 15 hospitalsMN$9,442Illinois: median $8,293 across 26 hospitalsIL$8,293Wisconsin: median $1,444 across 34 hospitalsWI$1,444Michigan: median $1,444 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,444New York: median $9,793 across 39 hospitalsNY$9,793Massachusetts: median $7,320 across 13 hospitalsMA$7,320Oregon: median $391 across 24 hospitalsOR$391Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $417 across 18 hospitalsIA$417Indiana: median $7,083 across 16 hospitalsIN$7,083Ohio: median $6,821 across 77 hospitalsOH$6,821Pennsylvania: median $9,777 across 34 hospitalsPA$9,777New Jersey: median $6,839 across 38 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: median $3,668 across 10 hospitalsCT$3,668Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $8,472 across 112 hospitalsCA$8,472Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $7,501 across 24 hospitalsCO$7,501Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $6,904 across 19 hospitalsMO$6,904Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,003 across 21 hospitalsWV$3,003Virginia: median $5,099 across 15 hospitalsVA$5,099Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,643 across 10 hospitalsKS$2,643Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,899 across 14 hospitalsTN$1,899North Carolina: median $11,789 across 19 hospitalsNC$11,789South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $5,053 across 19 hospitalsLA$5,053Mississippi: median $4,930 across 13 hospitalsMS$4,930Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,483 across 44 hospitalsGA$3,483Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $8,359 across 86 hospitalsTX$8,359Florida: median $14,116 across 39 hospitalsFL$14,116
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,821. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL39$14,116+107%$6,448 – $16,618
North Carolina NC19$11,789+73%$2,587 – $11,789
New York NY39$9,793+44%$1,014 – $13,378
Pennsylvania PA34$9,777+43%$3,290 – $16,788
Minnesota MN15$9,442+38%$1,334 – $9,442
California CA112$8,472+24%$5,269 – $15,714
Texas TX86$8,359+23%$3,658 – $10,866
Illinois IL26$8,293+22%$1,477 – $17,876
Colorado CO24$7,501+10%$3,828 – $16,768
Washington WA29$7,378+8%$3,483 – $14,741
Massachusetts MA13$7,320+7%$501 – $15,656
Indiana IN16$7,083+4%$4,135 – $7,914
Missouri MO19$6,904+1%$6,084 – $25,748
New Jersey NJ38$6,8390%$3,786 – $9,746
Ohio OH77$6,8210%$3,993 – $20,066
Virginia VA15$5,099−25%$4,017 – $5,099
Louisiana LA19$5,053−26%$2,109 – $7,490
Mississippi MS13$4,930−28%$3,338 – $6,120
Connecticut CT10$3,668−46%$930 – $9,393
Georgia GA44$3,483−49%$3,480 – $13,913
West Virginia WV21$3,003−56%$2,620 – $3,587
Kansas KS10$2,643−61%$435 – $6,084
Tennessee TN14$1,899−72%$1,849 – $10,347
Michigan MI28$1,444−79%$858 – $11,379
Wisconsin WI34$1,444−79%$945 – $2,339
Iowa IA18$417−94%$417 – $6,916
Oregon OR24$391−94%$299 – $18,539
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not 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 $6,821.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care818$6,904$3,022 – $13,755
Children’s22$8,151$1,355 – $15,989
Critical access91$3,543$945 – $12,489
Ownership
For-profit92$8,799$3,483 – $14,844
Government118$7,440$2,587 – $11,789
Non-profit721$6,447$2,449 – $13,851
System affiliation
Part of a system811$6,723$2,858 – $13,851
Independent126$7,490$659 – $13,156

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$11,021
Median cash price$6,821
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

689 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,904 and the average of the middle 60% is $7,317; most fall between $3,145 and $14,844.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 689 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
$1,355$3,483$6,904$12,103$18,601

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,355 vs $18,601).

Of the 820 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 689 gave a usable cash price; 94 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 37 a list price only.

How complete is this

937 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,091 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted937
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here118
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,091

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 Insj/Rplcmt Temp Transvns 2chmbr Pacg Eltrds Spx.

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 wires placed through a vein, two chambers (CPT 33211) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33211-temporary-pacing-wires-placed-through-a-vein-two-chambers