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Procedure price report · Other OR heart procedures

Unlisted heart surgery procedure

CPT 33999the billing code this page is about

Used for a heart operation that has no specific billing code of its own; the record describes the exact work performed.

Hospitals typically charge $1,783 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,132 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,547. Most fall between $768 and $7,652 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,132
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,132 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
$557$904$1,783$5,746$17,966

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($557 vs $17,966).

How the prices are spread

$399 – $621: 68 hospitals$399$621 – $965: 191 hospitals$965 – $1,500: 184 hospitals$965$1,500 – $2,332: 142 hospitals$2,332 – $3,625: 103 hospitals$2,332$3,625 – $5,635: 81 hospitals$5,635 – $8,760: 98 hospitals$5,635$8,760 – $13,617: 46 hospitals$13,617 – $21,167: 69 hospitals$13,617$21,167 – $32,904: 38 hospitals$21,167median $1,783price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,020 of 1,132 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$399$62168
$621$965191
$965$1,500184
$1,500$2,332142
$2,332$3,625103
$3,625$5,63581
$5,635$8,76098
$8,760$13,61746
$13,617$21,16769
$21,167$32,90438

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$641
Median cash price$1,783
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $1,783.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,532 across 28 hospitalsWA$1,532Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,722 across 17 hospitalsMN$1,722Illinois: median $2,855 across 50 hospitalsIL$2,855Wisconsin: median $13,380 across 35 hospitalsWI$13,380Michigan: median $927 across 30 hospitalsMI$927New York: median $1,338 across 42 hospitalsNY$1,338Massachusetts: median $1,227 across 16 hospitalsMA$1,227Oregon: median $16,016 across 17 hospitalsOR$16,016Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,346 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,346Indiana: median $1,497 across 30 hospitalsIN$1,497Ohio: median $2,580 across 82 hospitalsOH$2,580Pennsylvania: median $1,648 across 52 hospitalsPA$1,648New Jersey: median $2,315 across 42 hospitalsNJ$2,315Connecticut: 8 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 $5,746 across 96 hospitalsCA$5,746Utah: median $38,762 across 23 hospitalsUT$38,762Colorado: median $1,460 across 26 hospitalsCO$1,460Nebraska: median $653 across 14 hospitalsNE$653Missouri: median $1,989 across 33 hospitalsMO$1,989Kentucky: median $2,598 across 16 hospitalsKY$2,598West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,155 across 25 hospitalsVA$1,155Maryland: 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 $6,484 across 20 hospitalsAZ$6,484New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,020 across 10 hospitalsKS$1,020Arkansas: median $2,166 across 12 hospitalsAR$2,166Tennessee: median $784 across 33 hospitalsTN$784North Carolina: median $1,541 across 26 hospitalsNC$1,541South Carolina: median $1,786 across 26 hospitalsSC$1,786Oklahoma: median $806 across 22 hospitalsOK$806Louisiana: median $663 across 21 hospitalsLA$663Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,783 across 44 hospitalsGA$1,783Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,485 across 92 hospitalsTX$1,485Florida: median $1,513 across 55 hospitalsFL$1,513
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,783. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$38,762+2074%$38,762 – $42,909
Oregon OR17$16,016+798%$2,549 – $25,354
Wisconsin WI35$13,380+651%$1,336 – $17,966
Arizona AZ20$6,484+264%$787 – $64,366
California CA96$5,746+222%$1,481 – $16,639
Illinois IL50$2,855+60%$1,237 – $9,630
Kentucky KY16$2,598+46%$1,700 – $6,568
Ohio OH82$2,580+45%$916 – $8,511
New Jersey NJ42$2,315+30%$684 – $5,419
Arkansas AR12$2,166+21%$746 – $5,900
Missouri MO33$1,989+12%$566 – $3,569
South Carolina SC26$1,7860%$1,018 – $18,161
Georgia GA44$1,7830%$1,268 – $4,276
Minnesota MN17$1,722−3%$1,722 – $5,164
Pennsylvania PA52$1,648−8%$760 – $5,735
North Carolina NC26$1,541−14%$796 – $2,800
Washington WA28$1,532−14%$718 – $4,648
Florida FL55$1,513−15%$904 – $11,786
Indiana IN30$1,497−16%$1,001 – $5,038
Texas TX92$1,485−17%$768 – $2,999
Colorado CO26$1,460−18%$365 – $7,144
Iowa IA18$1,346−24%$594 – $2,884
New York NY42$1,338−25%$732 – $2,734
Massachusetts MA16$1,227−31%$967 – $2,196
Virginia VA25$1,155−35%$710 – $4,641
Kansas KS10$1,020−43%$664 – $1,525
Michigan MI30$927−48%$863 – $3,338
Oklahoma OK22$806−55%$444 – $1,810
Tennessee TN33$784−56%$297 – $1,551
Louisiana LA21$663−63%$378 – $2,044
Nebraska NE14$653−63%$407 – $3,007
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $1,783.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,021$1,723$768 – $7,005
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access87$2,598$1,330 – $17,966
Ownership
For-profit115$2,361$768 – $9,640
Government122$1,485$732 – $2,663
Non-profit888$1,822$779 – $8,640
System affiliation
Part of a system1,011$1,786$768 – $7,808
Independent121$1,410$754 – $3,925

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,358
Median cash price$1,783
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

873 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,737 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,593; most fall between $779 and $8,511.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 873 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
$509$927$1,737$5,746$17,966

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 35× what the cheapest tenth charges ($509 vs $17,966).

Of the 950 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 873 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,132 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,223 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,132
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
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 — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code1,223

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 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 PR Endovascular Repair of Ascending Aorta W/Graft C/T 33881.

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, “Unlisted heart surgery procedure (CPT 33999) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33999-unlisted-heart-surgery-procedure