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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic nervous system procedures

Repositioning of a phrenic nerve stimulator lead in a vein

CPT 33281the billing code this page is about

Procedure to move an already implanted breathing-nerve stimulator electrode that sits inside a vein back into the correct position.

Hospitals typically charge $4,523 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 329 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,008. Most fall between $2,443 and $7,662 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
329
States
33
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 329 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
$1,381$3,021$4,523$7,161$9,391

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,381 vs $9,391).

How the prices are spread

$935 – $1,186: 14 hospitals$935$1,186 – $1,504: 5 hospitals$1,504 – $1,908: 24 hospitals$1,504$1,908 – $2,420: 8 hospitals$2,420 – $3,069: 32 hospitals$2,420$3,069 – $3,892: 25 hospitals$3,892 – $4,936: 54 hospitals$3,892$4,936 – $6,261: 40 hospitals$6,261 – $7,940: 65 hospitals$6,261$7,940 – $10,070: 34 hospitals$7,940median $4,523price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (301 of 329 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$935$1,18614
$1,186$1,5045
$1,504$1,90824
$1,908$2,4208
$2,420$3,06932
$3,069$3,89225
$3,892$4,93654
$4,936$6,26140
$6,261$7,94065
$7,940$10,07034

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,572
Median cash price$4,523
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $4,523.

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: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $4,070 across 20 hospitalsNY$4,070Massachusetts: 2 hospitals 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 $935 across 13 hospitalsIA$935Indiana: median $5,042 across 14 hospitalsIN$5,042Ohio: median $4,024 across 20 hospitalsOH$4,024Pennsylvania: median $4,131 across 27 hospitalsPA$4,131New Jersey: median $4,523 across 27 hospitalsNJ$4,523Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,014 across 29 hospitalsCA$6,014Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,021 across 20 hospitalsCO$3,021Nebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 6 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: median $9,551 across 11 hospitalsAZ$9,551New 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $1,555 across 13 hospitalsTN$1,555North Carolina: median $7,161 across 10 hospitalsNC$7,161South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals 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 $7,148 across 18 hospitalsGA$7,148Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $7,662 across 23 hospitalsTX$7,662Florida: median $9,391 across 15 hospitalsFL$9,391
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,523. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$9,551+111%$4,290 – $9,551
Florida FL15$9,391+108%$3,549 – $12,137
Texas TX23$7,662+69%$7,662 – $10,070
North Carolina NC10$7,161+58%$7,161 – $7,161
Georgia GA18$7,148+58%$7,148 – $7,789
California CA29$6,014+33%$3,385 – $6,014
Indiana IN14$5,042+11%$4,373 – $6,815
New Jersey NJ27$4,5230%$3,807 – $5,855
Pennsylvania PA27$4,131−9%$286 – $6,474
New York NY20$4,070−10%$3,572 – $4,150
Ohio OH20$4,024−11%$3,353 – $6,328
Colorado CO20$3,021−33%$3,021 – $3,056
Tennessee TN13$1,555−66%$1,555 – $1,916
Iowa IA13$935−79%$935 – $935
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $4,523.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care298$4,523$2,483 – $7,662
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$5,071$1,526 – $8,735
Ownership
For-profit29$7,662$3,476 – $9,551
Government36$4,290$3,067 – $7,161
Non-profit261$4,364$1,999 – $7,172
System affiliation
Part of a system307$4,572$2,483 – $7,662
Independent22$4,095$937 – $8,031

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,735
Median cash price$4,523
Cash as a share of list, median hospital50%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 50%. 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

254 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,401 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,905; most fall between $1,723 and $7,662.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 254 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
$935$2,443$4,401$7,161$8,735

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($935 vs $8,735).

Of the 265 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 254 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

329 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 348 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted329
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code348

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 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 Repositioning Phrenic Nrv Stimulator Transvns 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, “Repositioning of a phrenic nerve stimulator lead in a vein (CPT 33281) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33281-repositioning-of-a-phrenic-nerve-stimulator-lead-in-a-vein