Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Insertion of 2 electrodes for permanent pacemaker or defibrillator
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 50–500 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$9.9k
Median
$9.0k
High
$41.2k
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| 1 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $28.7k | $28.6k | $20.4k | 71% | 6–60 | $2.9k – $71.8k |
| 2 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $1.2k | $4.2k | $5.0k | 120% | 5–50 | $0 – $18.0k |
| 3 | Mon Health Medical Center Morgantown, WV | $19.5k | $29.5k | $24.1k | 81% | 5–50 | $544 – $61.5k |
| 4 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $10.0k | $9.7k | $3.0k | 31% | 3–30 | $751 – $15.3k |
| 5 | St Johns Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Springfield, IL | $17.3k | $16.6k | $7.9k | 48% | 3–30 | $1.4k – $26.9k |
| 6 | Methodist Lebonheur Germantown Hosp GERMANTOWN, TN | $7.6k | $6.8k | $3.6k | 52% | 2–20 | $50 – $15.8k |
| 7 | John Muir Health Concord, CA | $11.7k | $19.2k | $13.3k | 69% | 2–20 | $314 – $54.3k |
| 8 | Dignity Health Phoenix, AZ | $8.8k | $8.5k | $2.3k | 27% | 2–20 | $379 – $14.4k |
| 9 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $19.1k | $26.1k | $20.1k | 77% | 2–20 | $3.2k – $73.0k |
| 10 | Mercy Health Services-Iowa Corp. Mason City, IA | $8.5k | $8.7k | $1.9k | 22% | 1–10 | $3.4k – $17.9k |
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