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

Open chest removal of a single-wire pacemaker system

CPT 33236the billing code this page is about

Removal of a pacemaker generator and its single pacing wire through a surgical opening in the chest.

Hospitals typically charge $1,911 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 144 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,455. Most fall between $1,155 and $4,015 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
144
States
32
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 144 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
$779$1,252$1,911$4,015$5,288

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($779 vs $5,288).

How the prices are spread

$501 – $648: 6 hospitals$501$648 – $838: 8 hospitals$838 – $1,084: 5 hospitals$838$1,084 – $1,403: 24 hospitals$1,403 – $1,815: 16 hospitals$1,403$1,815 – $2,347: 12 hospitals$2,347 – $3,036: 12 hospitals$2,347$3,036 – $3,928: 10 hospitals$3,928 – $5,081: 28 hospitals$3,928$5,081 – $6,573: 10 hospitals$5,081median $1,911price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (131 of 144 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$501$6486
$648$8388
$838$1,0845
$1,084$1,40324
$1,403$1,81516
$1,815$2,34712
$2,347$3,03612
$3,036$3,92810
$3,928$5,08128
$5,081$6,57310

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,911.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,421 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,421Nevada: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $501 across 14 hospitalsPA$501New Jersey: median $4,881 across 16 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,015 across 22 hospitalsCA$4,015Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,272 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,272Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,911. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ16$4,881+155%$4,350 – $5,855
California CA22$4,015+110%$4,015 – $4,015
Oregon OR10$1,421−26%$1,421 – $1,836
Oklahoma OK10$1,272−33%$1,272 – $1,272
Pennsylvania PA14$501−74%$111 – $3,810
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $1,911.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care128$2,300$1,155 – $4,015
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit10fewer than 20 hospitals
Government13fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit121$1,991$1,155 – $4,015
System affiliation
Part of a system113$1,911$1,155 – $4,015
Independent31$1,951$1,066 – $3,981

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,332
Median cash price$1,911
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

101 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,557 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,426; most fall between $998 and $4,015.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 101 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
$779$1,199$1,557$4,015$4,015

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($779 vs $4,015).

Of the 118 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 101 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

144 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 166 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted144
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code166

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 5, 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 Rmvl Prm Epicar Pm&Eltrds Thorcom 1 Lead Sys.

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, “Open chest removal of a single-wire pacemaker system (CPT 33236) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33236-open-chest-removal-of-a-single-wire-pacemaker-system