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Procedure price report · Other OR heart procedures

Placing a balloon heart pump through the skin

CPT 33967the billing code this page is about

Insertion of an intra-aortic balloon pump, a device threaded into the main artery to help the heart pump, placed through a needle puncture rather than an open incision.

Hospitals typically charge $2,408 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,637 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,668. Most fall between $1,025 and $5,561 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,637
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,637 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
$556$1,268$2,408$4,655$8,529

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($556 vs $8,529).

How the prices are spread

$424 – $592: 95 hospitals$424$592 – $825: 94 hospitals$825 – $1,151: 105 hospitals$825$1,151 – $1,606: 154 hospitals$1,606 – $2,239: 241 hospitals$1,606$2,239 – $3,124: 236 hospitals$3,124 – $4,357: 188 hospitals$3,124$4,357 – $6,077: 153 hospitals$6,077 – $8,477: 110 hospitals$6,077$8,477 – $11,824: 100 hospitals$8,477median $2,408price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,476 of 1,637 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$424$59295
$592$82594
$825$1,151105
$1,151$1,606154
$1,606$2,239241
$2,239$3,124236
$3,124$4,357188
$4,357$6,077153
$6,077$8,477110
$8,477$11,824100

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,408.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,663 across 38 hospitalsWA$1,663Idaho: median $4,356 across 13 hospitalsID$4,356Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,146 across 36 hospitalsMN$4,146Illinois: median $2,263 across 78 hospitalsIL$2,263Wisconsin: median $1,892 across 48 hospitalsWI$1,892Michigan: median $2,032 across 62 hospitalsMI$2,032New York: median $1,209 across 43 hospitalsNY$1,209Massachusetts: median $1,472 across 20 hospitalsMA$1,472Oregon: median $2,544 across 32 hospitalsOR$2,544Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,329 across 24 hospitalsIA$2,329Indiana: median $1,301 across 49 hospitalsIN$1,301Ohio: median $2,576 across 90 hospitalsOH$2,576Pennsylvania: median $2,809 across 77 hospitalsPA$2,809New Jersey: median $5,147 across 39 hospitalsNJ$5,147Connecticut: median $3,005 across 12 hospitalsCT$3,005Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,542 across 132 hospitalsCA$3,542Utah: median $8,529 across 25 hospitalsUT$8,529Colorado: median $4,030 across 33 hospitalsCO$4,030Nebraska: median $2,335 across 17 hospitalsNE$2,335Missouri: median $1,832 across 42 hospitalsMO$1,832Kentucky: median $2,130 across 32 hospitalsKY$2,130West Virginia: median $1,548 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,548Virginia: median $2,883 across 40 hospitalsVA$2,883Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,393 across 27 hospitalsAZ$2,393New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,873 across 20 hospitalsKS$1,873Arkansas: median $1,531 across 11 hospitalsAR$1,531Tennessee: median $2,594 across 43 hospitalsTN$2,594North Carolina: median $2,224 across 48 hospitalsNC$2,224South Carolina: median $2,859 across 32 hospitalsSC$2,859Oklahoma: median $1,000 across 34 hospitalsOK$1,000Louisiana: median $1,686 across 37 hospitalsLA$1,686Mississippi: median $2,250 across 23 hospitalsMS$2,250Alabama: median $3,374 across 20 hospitalsAL$3,374Georgia: median $1,645 across 60 hospitalsGA$1,645Hawaii: median $830 across 10 hospitalsHI$830Texas: median $1,803 across 119 hospitalsTX$1,803Florida: median $5,022 across 83 hospitalsFL$5,022
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,408. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT25$8,529+254%$8,209 – $8,529
New Jersey NJ39$5,147+114%$1,185 – $8,386
Florida FL83$5,022+109%$2,189 – $12,398
Idaho ID13$4,356+81%$3,841 – $7,152
Minnesota MN36$4,146+72%$1,178 – $5,595
Colorado CO33$4,030+67%$1,737 – $9,572
California CA132$3,542+47%$785 – $10,720
Alabama AL20$3,374+40%$999 – $9,072
Connecticut CT12$3,005+25%$1,524 – $4,711
Virginia VA40$2,883+20%$1,037 – $5,990
South Carolina SC32$2,859+19%$2,329 – $5,586
Pennsylvania PA77$2,809+17%$679 – $6,856
Tennessee TN43$2,594+8%$1,127 – $3,185
Ohio OH90$2,576+7%$1,695 – $3,742
Oregon OR32$2,544+6%$663 – $5,621
Arizona AZ27$2,393−1%$1,646 – $8,917
Nebraska NE17$2,335−3%$1,451 – $4,346
Iowa IA24$2,329−3%$794 – $4,856
Illinois IL78$2,263−6%$1,000 – $4,668
Mississippi MS23$2,250−7%$1,100 – $4,836
North Carolina NC48$2,224−8%$751 – $4,787
Kentucky KY32$2,130−12%$675 – $6,434
Michigan MI62$2,032−16%$486 – $4,257
Wisconsin WI48$1,892−21%$1,437 – $4,756
Kansas KS20$1,873−22%$593 – $3,194
Missouri MO42$1,832−24%$1,176 – $3,091
Texas TX119$1,803−25%$1,150 – $5,561
Louisiana LA37$1,686−30%$649 – $3,430
Washington WA38$1,663−31%$890 – $3,053
Georgia GA60$1,645−32%$1,268 – $3,836
West Virginia WV15$1,548−36%$734 – $2,798
Arkansas AR11$1,531−36%$575 – $7,500
Massachusetts MA20$1,472−39%$452 – $3,763
Indiana IN49$1,301−46%$847 – $3,655
New York NY43$1,209−50%$555 – $6,857
Oklahoma OK34$1,000−58%$487 – $2,760
Hawaii HI10$830−66%$250 – $1,964
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,408.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,479$2,500$1,037 – $5,586
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access133$1,892$701 – $4,756
Ownership
For-profit150$3,577$1,336 – $7,500
Government210$1,921$947 – $3,741
Non-profit1,270$2,507$1,000 – $5,586
System affiliation
Part of a system1,421$2,529$1,100 – $5,586
Independent216$1,895$673 – $4,500

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,486
Median cash price$2,408
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

1,333 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,468 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,710; most fall between $1,087 and $5,561.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,333 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
$575$1,319$2,468$4,668$8,529

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($575 vs $8,529).

Of the 1,426 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,333 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,637 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,803 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,637
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded106
Hospitals that filed this code1,803

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 24, 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 Insertion Intra-Aortic Balloon Assist Dev Perq.

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, “Placing a balloon heart pump through the skin (CPT 33967) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33967-placing-a-balloon-heart-pump-through-the-skin