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

Removal of defibrillator wires through a vein

CPT 33244the billing code this page is about

Extraction of implanted defibrillator leads by pulling them out through the vein, without opening the chest.

Hospitals typically charge $4,338 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,586 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,592. Most fall between $2,280 and $8,244 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,586
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 1,586 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
$1,613$2,557$4,338$7,358$13,255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,613 vs $13,255).

How the prices are spread

$1,296 – $1,697: 107 hospitals$1,296$1,697 – $2,221: 122 hospitals$2,221 – $2,907: 179 hospitals$2,221$2,907 – $3,805: 193 hospitals$3,805 – $4,981: 244 hospitals$3,805$4,981 – $6,520: 197 hospitals$6,520 – $8,535: 171 hospitals$6,520$8,535 – $11,172: 71 hospitals$11,172 – $14,625: 103 hospitals$11,172$14,625 – $19,144: 41 hospitals$14,625median $4,338price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,428 of 1,586 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,296$1,697107
$1,697$2,221122
$2,221$2,907179
$2,907$3,805193
$3,805$4,981244
$4,981$6,520197
$6,520$8,535171
$8,535$11,17271
$11,172$14,625103
$14,625$19,14441

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,818
Median cash price$4,338
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.14×

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 $4,338.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,093 across 37 hospitalsWA$4,093Idaho: median $7,280 across 12 hospitalsID$7,280Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,979 across 40 hospitalsMN$3,979Illinois: median $5,604 across 66 hospitalsIL$5,604Wisconsin: median $4,204 across 48 hospitalsWI$4,204Michigan: median $3,058 across 63 hospitalsMI$3,058New York: median $4,436 across 51 hospitalsNY$4,436Massachusetts: median $5,259 across 20 hospitalsMA$5,259Oregon: median $6,737 across 27 hospitalsOR$6,737Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $3,315 across 20 hospitalsIA$3,315Indiana: median $3,050 across 43 hospitalsIN$3,050Ohio: median $4,849 across 80 hospitalsOH$4,849Pennsylvania: median $4,589 across 76 hospitalsPA$4,589New Jersey: median $4,881 across 45 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: median $4,469 across 12 hospitalsCT$4,469Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,878 across 123 hospitalsCA$6,878Utah: median $8,267 across 13 hospitalsUT$8,267Colorado: median $3,175 across 32 hospitalsCO$3,175Nebraska: median $1,813 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,813Missouri: median $3,190 across 42 hospitalsMO$3,190Kentucky: median $6,611 across 25 hospitalsKY$6,611West Virginia: median $3,274 across 10 hospitalsWV$3,274Virginia: median $2,665 across 34 hospitalsVA$2,665Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,316 across 31 hospitalsAZ$3,316New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,832 across 18 hospitalsKS$2,832Arkansas: median $3,038 across 14 hospitalsAR$3,038Tennessee: median $1,818 across 32 hospitalsTN$1,818North Carolina: median $2,684 across 40 hospitalsNC$2,684South Carolina: median $4,710 across 33 hospitalsSC$4,710Oklahoma: median $2,516 across 32 hospitalsOK$2,516Louisiana: median $2,764 across 34 hospitalsLA$2,764Mississippi: median $3,143 across 17 hospitalsMS$3,143Alabama: median $3,846 across 23 hospitalsAL$3,846Georgia: median $4,136 across 65 hospitalsGA$4,136Hawaii: median $3,938 across 10 hospitalsHI$3,938Texas: median $6,431 across 153 hospitalsTX$6,431Florida: median $6,733 across 84 hospitalsFL$6,733
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,338. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT13$8,267+91%$7,076 – $8,267
Idaho ID12$7,280+68%$4,464 – $7,929
California CA123$6,878+59%$3,338 – $12,805
Oregon OR27$6,737+55%$2,265 – $7,887
Florida FL84$6,733+55%$3,960 – $9,139
Kentucky KY25$6,611+52%$1,635 – $45,907
Texas TX153$6,431+48%$1,919 – $15,664
Illinois IL66$5,604+29%$1,905 – $8,541
Massachusetts MA20$5,259+21%$2,722 – $16,193
New Jersey NJ45$4,881+13%$3,977 – $14,859
Ohio OH80$4,849+12%$2,224 – $13,602
South Carolina SC33$4,710+9%$3,439 – $6,163
Pennsylvania PA76$4,589+6%$3,290 – $10,551
Connecticut CT12$4,469+3%$3,732 – $8,330
New York NY51$4,436+2%$2,868 – $7,873
Wisconsin WI48$4,204−3%$2,387 – $6,149
Georgia GA65$4,136−5%$2,287 – $5,333
Washington WA37$4,093−6%$1,725 – $6,624
Minnesota MN40$3,979−8%$3,179 – $6,279
Hawaii HI10$3,938−9%$863 – $5,755
Alabama AL23$3,846−11%$2,522 – $12,646
Arizona AZ31$3,316−24%$2,142 – $6,503
Iowa IA20$3,315−24%$1,813 – $4,376
West Virginia WV10$3,274−25%$914 – $4,295
Missouri MO42$3,190−26%$1,996 – $9,235
Colorado CO32$3,175−27%$2,162 – $5,717
Mississippi MS17$3,143−28%$1,534 – $5,578
Michigan MI63$3,058−30%$2,650 – $6,049
Indiana IN43$3,050−30%$1,979 – $6,391
Arkansas AR14$3,038−30%$1,981 – $6,346
Kansas KS18$2,832−35%$1,920 – $4,046
Louisiana LA34$2,764−36%$1,633 – $4,245
North Carolina NC40$2,684−38%$1,580 – $5,045
Virginia VA34$2,665−39%$1,818 – $4,501
Oklahoma OK32$2,516−42%$1,394 – $4,261
Tennessee TN32$1,818−58%$1,444 – $2,488
Nebraska NE15$1,813−58%$1,644 – $2,649
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $4,338.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,429$4,333$2,280 – $8,244
Children’s34$6,346$1,774 – $16,930
Critical access115$3,757$1,920 – $7,887
Ownership
For-profit185$6,503$2,622 – $17,170
Government188$3,277$1,891 – $5,432
Non-profit1,205$4,393$2,280 – $7,929
System affiliation
Part of a system1,388$4,350$2,292 – $8,267
Independent198$4,181$1,994 – $7,821

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,821
Median cash price$4,338
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

1,172 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,265 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,462; most fall between $2,165 and $7,887.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,172 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
$1,553$2,387$4,265$6,981$11,318

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,553 vs $11,318).

Of the 1,257 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,172 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,586 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,705 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,586
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
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 — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,705

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 Rmvl1/Dual Chmbr Impltbl Dfb Eltrd Transvns Xtrj.

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, “Removal of defibrillator wires through a vein (CPT 33244) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33244-removal-of-defibrillator-wires-through-a-vein