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

Repositioning of an under-the-skin defibrillator electrode

CPT 33273the billing code this page is about

Surgery to move an already implanted electrode of an under-the-skin defibrillator system into a better position.

Hospitals typically charge $4,298 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 993 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,586. Most fall between $2,135 and $8,367 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
993
States
50
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 993 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
$1,379$2,524$4,298$7,474$11,383

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,379 vs $11,383).

How the prices are spread

$850 – $1,129: 29 hospitals$850$1,129 – $1,501: 40 hospitals$1,501 – $1,995: 55 hospitals$1,501$1,995 – $2,651: 90 hospitals$2,651 – $3,524: 108 hospitals$2,651$3,524 – $4,683: 185 hospitals$4,683 – $6,224: 108 hospitals$4,683$6,224 – $8,273: 126 hospitals$8,273 – $10,995: 69 hospitals$8,273$10,995 – $14,613: 87 hospitals$10,995median $4,298price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (897 of 993 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$850$1,12929
$1,129$1,50140
$1,501$1,99555
$1,995$2,65190
$2,651$3,524108
$3,524$4,683185
$4,683$6,224108
$6,224$8,273126
$8,273$10,99569
$10,995$14,61387

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,818
Median cash price$4,298
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $4,298.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,898 across 23 hospitalsWA$1,898Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $5,978 across 41 hospitalsIL$5,978Wisconsin: median $2,947 across 19 hospitalsWI$2,947Michigan: median $5,562 across 41 hospitalsMI$5,562New York: median $4,307 across 36 hospitalsNY$4,307Massachusetts: median $4,833 across 12 hospitalsMA$4,833Oregon: median $7,548 across 19 hospitalsOR$7,548Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $979 across 17 hospitalsIA$979Indiana: median $2,723 across 29 hospitalsIN$2,723Ohio: median $7,729 across 62 hospitalsOH$7,729Pennsylvania: median $4,832 across 52 hospitalsPA$4,832New Jersey: median $4,286 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,286Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,160 across 82 hospitalsCA$7,160Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $4,523 across 26 hospitalsCO$4,523Nebraska: median $2,433 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,433Missouri: median $4,950 across 22 hospitalsMO$4,950Kentucky: median $6,611 across 22 hospitalsKY$6,611West Virginia: median $3,045 across 19 hospitalsWV$3,045Virginia: median $3,834 across 13 hospitalsVA$3,834Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,586 across 20 hospitalsAZ$4,586New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,443 across 23 hospitalsTN$1,443North Carolina: median $4,234 across 27 hospitalsNC$4,234South Carolina: median $7,870 across 16 hospitalsSC$7,870Oklahoma: median $1,443 across 18 hospitalsOK$1,443Louisiana: median $3,339 across 20 hospitalsLA$3,339Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,851 across 52 hospitalsGA$2,851Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,841 across 108 hospitalsTX$3,841Florida: median $6,602 across 47 hospitalsFL$6,602
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,298. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC16$7,870+83%$4,078 – $12,365
Ohio OH62$7,729+80%$4,298 – $14,061
Oregon OR19$7,548+76%$723 – $10,998
California CA82$7,160+67%$4,141 – $11,094
Kentucky KY22$6,611+54%$2,807 – $14,472
Florida FL47$6,602+54%$2,992 – $8,473
Illinois IL41$5,978+39%$2,931 – $8,558
Michigan MI41$5,562+29%$3,318 – $11,338
Missouri MO22$4,950+15%$3,422 – $9,095
Massachusetts MA12$4,833+12%$3,804 – $6,762
Pennsylvania PA52$4,832+12%$2,145 – $6,955
Arizona AZ20$4,586+7%$2,019 – $5,247
Colorado CO26$4,523+5%$2,954 – $7,547
New York NY36$4,3070%$2,017 – $7,873
New Jersey NJ32$4,2860%$3,977 – $5,741
North Carolina NC27$4,234−1%$1,844 – $5,115
Texas TX108$3,841−11%$2,375 – $8,547
Virginia VA13$3,834−11%$2,087 – $4,746
Louisiana LA20$3,339−22%$1,807 – $4,186
West Virginia WV19$3,045−29%$2,538 – $3,274
Wisconsin WI19$2,947−31%$2,262 – $4,204
Georgia GA52$2,851−34%$2,161 – $5,333
Indiana IN29$2,723−37%$1,927 – $4,979
Nebraska NE10$2,433−43%$623 – $2,433
Washington WA23$1,898−56%$1,618 – $5,228
Tennessee TN23$1,443−66%$623 – $1,718
Oklahoma OK18$1,443−66%$652 – $3,397
Iowa IA17$979−77%$979 – $2,433
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $4,298.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care909$4,298$2,135 – $8,367
Children’s23$5,186$3,483 – $12,824
Critical access57$3,526$2,161 – $7,929
Ownership
For-profit97$5,049$2,851 – $14,444
Government121$3,868$2,017 – $5,285
Non-profit771$4,298$2,142 – $8,367
System affiliation
Part of a system884$4,298$2,142 – $8,367
Independent109$4,586$1,477 – $7,924

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,309
Median cash price$4,298
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

741 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,415 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,754; most fall between $2,123 and $8,367.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 741 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
$1,365$2,524$4,415$7,548$11,094

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,365 vs $11,094).

Of the 777 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 741 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

993 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,044 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted993
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code1,044

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 Repos Previously Implanted Subq Implantable Dfb.

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, “Repositioning of an under-the-skin defibrillator electrode (CPT 33273) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33273-repositioning-of-an-under-the-skin-defibrillator-electrode