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Open heart ablation for atrial fibrillation, limited

CPT 33254the billing code this page is about

Open surgical procedure creating a limited set of scar lines in the upper heart chambers to treat an irregular heart rhythm, done without the heart-lung bypass machine.

Hospitals typically charge $2,641 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 192 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,053. Most fall between $1,631 and $6,165 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
192
States
39
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 192 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
$1,374$1,948$2,641$5,002$8,073

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,374 vs $8,073).

How the prices are spread

$705 – $925: 7 hospitals$705$925 – $1,214: 2 hospitals$1,214 – $1,593: 10 hospitals$1,214$1,593 – $2,090: 24 hospitals$2,090 – $2,743: 45 hospitals$2,090$2,743 – $3,599: 28 hospitals$3,599 – $4,723: 17 hospitals$3,599$4,723 – $6,197: 15 hospitals$6,197 – $8,131: 21 hospitals$6,197$8,131 – $10,670: 8 hospitals$8,131median $2,641price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (177 of 192 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$705$9257
$925$1,2142
$1,214$1,59310
$1,593$2,09024
$2,090$2,74345
$2,743$3,59928
$3,599$4,72317
$4,723$6,19715
$6,197$8,13121
$8,131$10,6708

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,641.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 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: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $8,073 across 17 hospitalsWI$8,073Michigan: median $1,631 across 26 hospitalsMI$1,631New York: median $2,641 across 11 hospitalsNY$2,641Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $3,298 across 13 hospitalsIA$3,298Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $5,002 across 10 hospitalsOH$5,002Pennsylvania: median $866 across 15 hospitalsPA$866New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $2,212 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,212Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,641. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI17$8,073+206%$8,073 – $10,670
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+94%$4,350 – $5,855
Ohio OH10$5,002+89%$2,089 – $6,165
Iowa IA13$3,298+25%$3,298 – $3,298
New York NY11$2,6410%$1,608 – $3,486
Oklahoma OK10$2,212−16%$2,212 – $2,212
Michigan MI26$1,631−38%$1,631 – $2,768
Pennsylvania PA15$866−67%$179 – $3,697
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $2,641.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care156$2,641$1,631 – $5,297
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$3,298$2,184 – $8,073
Ownership
For-profit14fewer than 20 hospitals
Government13fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit165$2,641$1,631 – $6,165
System affiliation
Part of a system162$2,533$1,631 – $6,165
Independent30$3,342$1,609 – $4,535

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,987
Median cash price$2,641
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

134 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,641 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,817; most fall between $1,939 and $5,002.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 134 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
$1,256$2,184$2,641$3,912$8,073

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,256 vs $8,073).

Of the 152 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 134 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

192 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 224 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted192
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code224

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 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 Other OR heart procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ablation & Reconstruction Atria Limited.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Open heart ablation for atrial fibrillation, limited (CPT 33254) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33254-open-heart-ablation-for-atrial-fibrillation-limited