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Phrenic nerve stimulator lead placed through a vein

CPT 33277the billing code this page is about

Placement of a single stimulation lead for a breathing-nerve stimulator, threaded through a vein, without implanting the generator at the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $10,368 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 268 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $10,892. Most fall between $3,986 and $21,278 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
268
States
34
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 268 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
$986$5,069$10,368$17,133$29,464

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($986 vs $29,464).

How the prices are spread

$751 – $1,136: 25 hospitals$751$1,136 – $1,719: 3 hospitals$1,719 – $2,600: 12 hospitals$1,719$2,600 – $3,933: 7 hospitals$3,933 – $5,949: 41 hospitals$3,933$5,949 – $8,998: 22 hospitals$8,998 – $13,610: 46 hospitals$8,998$13,610 – $20,588: 47 hospitals$20,588 – $31,141: 36 hospitals$20,588$31,141 – $47,105: 15 hospitals$31,141median $10,368price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (254 of 268 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$751$1,13625
$1,136$1,7193
$1,719$2,60012
$2,600$3,9337
$3,933$5,94941
$5,949$8,99822
$8,998$13,61046
$13,610$20,58847
$20,588$31,14136
$31,141$47,10515

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $10,368.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $751 across 13 hospitalsIA$751Indiana: median $4,118 across 13 hospitalsIN$4,118Ohio: median $13,985 across 22 hospitalsOH$13,985Pennsylvania: median $6,137 across 22 hospitalsPA$6,137New Jersey: median $5,110 across 16 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,850 across 10 hospitalsCA$11,850Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $10,368 across 20 hospitalsCO$10,368Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $5,333 across 12 hospitalsTN$5,333North Carolina: median $47,105 across 10 hospitalsNC$47,105South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals 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: median $29,464 across 18 hospitalsGA$29,464Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $13,143 across 22 hospitalsTX$13,143Florida: median $14,767 across 18 hospitalsFL$14,767
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $10,368. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC10$47,105+354%$47,105 – $47,105
Georgia GA18$29,464+184%$28,450 – $29,464
Florida FL18$14,767+42%$1,755 – $68,128
Ohio OH22$13,985+35%$975 – $14,544
Texas TX22$13,143+27%$13,143 – $18,553
California CA10$11,850+14%$937 – $16,823
Colorado CO20$10,3680%$10,368 – $21,190
Pennsylvania PA22$6,137−41%$1,794 – $23,760
Tennessee TN12$5,333−49%$5,234 – $5,333
New Jersey NJ16$5,110−51%$4,095 – $6,311
Indiana IN13$4,118−60%$3,571 – $5,566
Iowa IA13$751−93%$751 – $751
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $10,368.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care238$10,550$3,986 – $21,262
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$6,490$4,523 – $25,657
Ownership
For-profit27$14,544$10,368 – $18,553
Government24$28,450$5,375 – $47,105
Non-profit214$9,688$3,571 – $17,133
System affiliation
Part of a system254$10,368$4,141 – $21,278
Independent14fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$21,087
Median cash price$10,368
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

219 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $11,667 and the average of the middle 60% is $12,277; most fall between $4,428 and $25,657.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 219 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
$975$5,333$11,667$18,653$29,464

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($975 vs $29,464).

Of the 262 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 219 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

268 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 324 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted268
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code324

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 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 therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Insj Phrenic Nrv Stimulator Transvns Sensing Ld.

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, “Phrenic nerve stimulator lead placed through a vein (CPT 33277) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33277-phrenic-nerve-stimulator-lead-placed-through-a-vein