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Procedure price report · Other OR heart procedures

Limited atrial ablation, scope-guided, without bypass

CPT 33265the billing code this page is about

Scope-guided surgery that burns or freezes a limited set of areas in the upper heart chambers to treat an irregular heartbeat, done without a heart-lung bypass machine.

Hospitals typically charge $3,244 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 196 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,578. Most fall between $2,052 and $5,998 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
196
States
31
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 196 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
$1,607$2,206$3,244$5,998$6,861

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,607 vs $6,861).

How the prices are spread

$999 – $1,253: 3 hospitals$999$1,253 – $1,571: 7 hospitals$1,571 – $1,971: 18 hospitals$1,571$1,971 – $2,472: 30 hospitals$2,472 – $3,100: 28 hospitals$2,472$3,100 – $3,889: 23 hospitals$3,889 – $4,878: 13 hospitals$3,889$4,878 – $6,118: 28 hospitals$6,118 – $7,673: 21 hospitals$6,118$7,673 – $9,625: 9 hospitals$7,673median $3,244price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (180 of 196 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$999$1,2533
$1,253$1,5717
$1,571$1,97118
$1,971$2,47230
$2,472$3,10028
$3,100$3,88923
$3,889$4,87813
$4,878$6,11828
$6,118$7,67321
$7,673$9,6259

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,244.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $5,998 across 19 hospitalsWI$5,998Michigan: median $1,627 across 21 hospitalsMI$1,627New York: median $2,493 across 10 hospitalsNY$2,493Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 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 $3,313 across 14 hospitalsIA$3,313Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew 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: median $2,738 across 23 hospitalsCA$2,738Utah: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $2,211 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,211Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $6,861 across 11 hospitalsFL$6,861
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,244. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL11$6,861+111%$6,861 – $30,124
Wisconsin WI19$5,998+85%$5,998 – $9,625
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+58%$4,350 – $5,855
Iowa IA14$3,313+2%$3,313 – $3,313
California CA23$2,738−16%$2,738 – $2,738
New York NY10$2,493−23%$1,607 – $3,456
Oklahoma OK10$2,211−32%$2,211 – $2,211
Michigan MI21$1,627−50%$1,627 – $2,396
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not 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
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not 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 $3,244.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care169$2,836$2,015 – $5,998
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$5,998$2,206 – $5,998
Ownership
For-profit15fewer than 20 hospitals
Government11fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit170$3,244$1,950 – $5,998
System affiliation
Part of a system170$3,244$2,052 – $6,144
Independent26$3,182$2,087 – $4,529

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,578
Median cash price$3,244
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

142 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,738 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,432; most fall between $2,206 and $5,998.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 142 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
$1,377$2,211$2,738$5,294$6,468

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,377 vs $6,468).

Of the 167 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 142 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

196 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 234 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted196
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code234

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 24, 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 Ndsc Ablation & Rcnstj Atria Limited W/O Bypas.

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, “Limited atrial ablation, scope-guided, without bypass (CPT 33265) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33265-limited-atrial-ablation-scope-guided-without-bypass