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Placing a balloon heart pump through the upper aorta

CPT 33973the billing code this page is about

Insertion of an intra-aortic balloon pump to help the heart pump, placed directly into the ascending aorta through a chest incision.

Hospitals typically charge $1,709 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 164 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,778. Most fall between $758 and $3,495 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
164
States
35
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 164 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
$433$809$1,709$3,092$5,660

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($433 vs $5,660).

How the prices are spread

$330 – $459: 9 hospitals$330$459 – $637: 10 hospitals$637 – $884: 24 hospitals$637$884 – $1,228: 17 hospitals$1,228 – $1,705: 13 hospitals$1,228$1,705 – $2,368: 25 hospitals$2,368 – $3,289: 19 hospitals$2,368$3,289 – $4,567: 14 hospitals$4,567 – $6,342: 14 hospitals$4,567$6,342 – $8,807: 4 hospitals$6,342median $1,709price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (149 of 164 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$330$4599
$459$63710
$637$88424
$884$1,22817
$1,228$1,70513
$1,705$2,36825
$2,368$3,28919
$3,289$4,56714
$4,567$6,34214
$6,342$8,8074

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,709.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,709 across 19 hospitalsMI$1,709New York: median $1,445 across 10 hospitalsNY$1,445Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $4,361 across 10 hospitalsOH$4,361Pennsylvania: median $358 across 16 hospitalsPA$358New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $809 across 11 hospitalsOK$809Louisiana: 2 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $3,092 across 13 hospitalsFL$3,092
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,709. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+199%$3,986 – $5,855
Ohio OH10$4,361+155%$1,036 – $9,011
Florida FL13$3,092+81%$2,976 – $3,092
Michigan MI19$1,7090%$702 – $1,709
New York NY10$1,445−15%$582 – $2,044
Oklahoma OK11$809−53%$809 – $809
Pennsylvania PA16$358−79%$303 – $2,456
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $1,709.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care150$1,666$758 – $3,360
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit128$1,709$774 – $4,350
System affiliation
Part of a system131$1,709$702 – $3,986
Independent33$1,297$774 – $1,981

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,986
Median cash price$1,709
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

106 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,525 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,852; most fall between $809 and $3,360.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 106 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
$582$809$1,525$3,360$9,187

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($582 vs $9,187).

Of the 130 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 106 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

164 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 186 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted164
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code186

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 23, 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 PR Insrt Aortic Balloon Thru ASC Aort.

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, “Placing a balloon heart pump through the upper aorta (CPT 33973) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33973-placing-a-balloon-heart-pump-through-the-upper-aorta