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Procedure price report · Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures

Removal of a skin-puncture heart pump at a later visit

CPT 33992the billing code this page is about

Taking out a temporary heart-assist pump that was placed through the skin, performed at a session separate from the one in which it was inserted.

Hospitals typically charge $2,269 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,342 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,431. Most fall between $684 and $5,023 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,342
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 1,342 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
$422$808$2,269$4,414$8,305

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($422 vs $8,305).

How the prices are spread

$283 – $422: 68 hospitals$283$422 – $628: 107 hospitals$628 – $934: 163 hospitals$628$934 – $1,390: 94 hospitals$1,390 – $2,069: 126 hospitals$1,390$2,069 – $3,079: 180 hospitals$3,079 – $4,582: 225 hospitals$3,079$4,582 – $6,819: 135 hospitals$6,819 – $10,148: 76 hospitals$6,819$10,148 – $15,102: 34 hospitals$10,148median $2,269price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,208 of 1,342 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$283$42268
$422$628107
$628$934163
$934$1,39094
$1,390$2,069126
$2,069$3,079180
$3,079$4,582225
$4,582$6,819135
$6,819$10,14876
$10,148$15,10234

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,269.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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 $1,673 across 38 hospitalsWA$1,673Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $531 across 16 hospitalsMN$531Illinois: median $2,271 across 62 hospitalsIL$2,271Wisconsin: median $2,226 across 42 hospitalsWI$2,226Michigan: median $1,081 across 57 hospitalsMI$1,081New York: median $630 across 28 hospitalsNY$630Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,645 across 29 hospitalsOR$1,645Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,465 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,465Indiana: median $1,046 across 37 hospitalsIN$1,046Ohio: median $2,896 across 87 hospitalsOH$2,896Pennsylvania: median $2,046 across 54 hospitalsPA$2,046New Jersey: median $3,319 across 35 hospitalsNJ$3,319Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,349 across 118 hospitalsCA$2,349Utah: median $7,372 across 16 hospitalsUT$7,372Colorado: median $4,085 across 26 hospitalsCO$4,085Nebraska: median $693 across 16 hospitalsNE$693Missouri: median $1,478 across 35 hospitalsMO$1,478Kentucky: median $795 across 15 hospitalsKY$795West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,224 across 33 hospitalsVA$2,224Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,474 across 25 hospitalsAZ$1,474New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,815 across 16 hospitalsKS$1,815Arkansas: median $2,200 across 14 hospitalsAR$2,200Tennessee: median $1,224 across 30 hospitalsTN$1,224North Carolina: median $2,942 across 32 hospitalsNC$2,942South Carolina: median $3,420 across 27 hospitalsSC$3,420Oklahoma: median $749 across 26 hospitalsOK$749Louisiana: median $2,284 across 27 hospitalsLA$2,284Mississippi: median $1,268 across 18 hospitalsMS$1,268Alabama: median $2,718 across 18 hospitalsAL$2,718Georgia: median $4,114 across 57 hospitalsGA$4,114Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,421 across 132 hospitalsTX$3,421Florida: median $4,543 across 67 hospitalsFL$4,543
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,269. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT16$7,372+225%$4,664 – $7,372
Florida FL67$4,543+100%$1,702 – $8,842
Georgia GA57$4,114+81%$987 – $10,649
Colorado CO26$4,085+80%$2,499 – $7,209
Texas TX132$3,421+51%$796 – $9,135
South Carolina SC27$3,420+51%$1,054 – $4,194
New Jersey NJ35$3,319+46%$793 – $5,339
North Carolina NC32$2,942+30%$1,859 – $4,305
Ohio OH87$2,896+28%$905 – $5,014
Alabama AL18$2,718+20%$568 – $25,526
Iowa IA19$2,465+9%$489 – $4,973
California CA118$2,349+4%$1,025 – $4,717
Louisiana LA27$2,284+1%$1,546 – $4,552
Illinois IL62$2,2710%$1,072 – $5,196
Wisconsin WI42$2,226−2%$852 – $5,902
Virginia VA33$2,224−2%$785 – $3,102
Arkansas AR14$2,200−3%$461 – $2,566
Pennsylvania PA54$2,046−10%$512 – $6,418
Kansas KS16$1,815−20%$447 – $3,194
Washington WA38$1,673−26%$758 – $4,386
Oregon OR29$1,645−28%$566 – $10,223
Missouri MO35$1,478−35%$279 – $2,003
Arizona AZ25$1,474−35%$432 – $8,393
Mississippi MS18$1,268−44%$326 – $4,988
Tennessee TN30$1,224−46%$785 – $1,758
Michigan MI57$1,081−52%$318 – $3,175
Indiana IN37$1,046−54%$514 – $1,872
Kentucky KY15$795−65%$514 – $2,516
Oklahoma OK26$749−67%$115 – $2,907
Nebraska NE16$693−69%$591 – $4,185
New York NY28$630−72%$312 – $5,303
Minnesota MN16$531−77%$519 – $5,267
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,269.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,217$2,301$700 – $5,069
Children’s23$2,752$1,386 – $7,209
Critical access97$852$476 – $4,398
Ownership
For-profit139$4,020$985 – $15,453
Government152$1,758$524 – $4,279
Non-profit1,046$2,239$684 – $4,865
System affiliation
Part of a system1,194$2,271$733 – $5,069
Independent148$1,970$493 – $4,924

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,998
Median cash price$2,269
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

1,090 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,155 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,294; most fall between $678 and $4,717.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,090 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
$435$796$2,155$4,249$7,350

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($435 vs $7,350).

Of the 1,178 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,090 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,342 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,496 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,342
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code1,496

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 Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Perq Left Hrt Vad Artl/Artl&Ven Sep Insj.

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, “Removal of a skin-puncture heart pump at a later visit (CPT 33992) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33992-removal-of-a-skin-puncture-heart-pump-at-a-later-visit