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Procedure price report · Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures

Removal of a right heart pump at a later visit

CPT 33997the billing code this page is about

Taking out the vein tubing of a temporary right heart assist pump placed through the skin, performed at a session separate from the insertion.

Hospitals typically charge $1,849 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 701 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,158. Most fall between $498 and $4,816 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
701
States
44
Filings dated
Dec 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 701 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
$395$622$1,849$4,414$8,383

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($395 vs $8,383).

How the prices are spread

$247 – $373: 35 hospitals$247$373 – $564: 97 hospitals$564 – $853: 58 hospitals$564$853 – $1,291: 79 hospitals$1,291 – $1,952: 56 hospitals$1,291$1,952 – $2,953: 77 hospitals$2,953 – $4,466: 95 hospitals$2,953$4,466 – $6,755: 81 hospitals$6,755 – $10,217: 35 hospitals$6,755$10,217 – $15,453: 18 hospitals$10,217median $1,849price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (631 of 701 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$247$37335
$373$56497
$564$85358
$853$1,29179
$1,291$1,95256
$1,952$2,95377
$2,953$4,46695
$4,466$6,75581
$6,755$10,21735
$10,217$15,45318

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,849.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,673 across 23 hospitalsWA$1,673Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,496 across 32 hospitalsIL$1,496Wisconsin: median $859 across 22 hospitalsWI$859Michigan: median $925 across 25 hospitalsMI$925New York: median $1,827 across 18 hospitalsNY$1,827Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,019 across 19 hospitalsOR$3,019Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,019 across 23 hospitalsIN$1,019Ohio: median $1,987 across 45 hospitalsOH$1,987Pennsylvania: median $2,046 across 29 hospitalsPA$2,046New Jersey: median $4,881 across 19 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $930 across 54 hospitalsCA$930Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,889 across 13 hospitalsMO$1,889Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $453 across 15 hospitalsVA$453Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,036 across 20 hospitalsAZ$1,036New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $835 across 23 hospitalsTN$835North Carolina: median $4,133 across 28 hospitalsNC$4,133South Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $261 across 14 hospitalsOK$261Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,114 across 47 hospitalsGA$4,114Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,414 across 78 hospitalsTX$4,414Florida: median $1,764 across 50 hospitalsFL$1,764
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,849. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ19$4,881+164%$4,350 – $6,311
Texas TX78$4,414+139%$548 – $4,841
North Carolina NC28$4,133+123%$1,779 – $4,398
Georgia GA47$4,114+122%$912 – $10,649
Oregon OR19$3,019+63%$287 – $3,705
Pennsylvania PA29$2,046+11%$106 – $6,418
Ohio OH45$1,987+7%$622 – $2,950
Missouri MO13$1,889+2%$264 – $2,130
New York NY18$1,827−1%$470 – $5,187
Florida FL50$1,764−5%$456 – $15,740
Washington WA23$1,673−10%$433 – $3,796
Illinois IL32$1,496−19%$1,200 – $4,340
Arizona AZ20$1,036−44%$448 – $8,383
Indiana IN23$1,019−45%$677 – $1,449
California CA54$930−50%$498 – $7,000
Michigan MI25$925−50%$213 – $2,214
Wisconsin WI22$859−54%$859 – $1,785
Tennessee TN23$835−55%$414 – $2,330
Virginia VA15$453−76%$414 – $4,962
Oklahoma OK14$261−86%$261 – $2,856
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $1,849.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care638$1,969$498 – $4,841
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$859$631 – $3,019
Ownership
For-profit65$2,130$716 – $8,383
Government82$2,358$625 – $5,099
Non-profit549$1,823$496 – $4,636
System affiliation
Part of a system650$1,823$498 – $4,636
Independent51$2,336$470 – $5,514

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,284
Median cash price$1,849
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

569 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,779 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,063; most fall between $498 and $4,633.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 569 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
$414$548$1,779$4,276$7,572

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($414 vs $7,572).

Of the 615 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 569 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

701 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 784 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted701
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded53
Hospitals that filed this code784

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 R Heart Vad Venous Cannula 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 right heart pump at a later visit (CPT 33997) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33997-removal-of-a-right-heart-pump-at-a-later-visit