CPT 33238

Surgical removal of permanent pacemaker leads through the chest

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Remove electrode/thoracotomy

Payer pricing summary

Low

$504

Average

$1.9k

Median

$1.3k

High

$7.3k

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 45 Fee schedule 51 Per diem 5 Percent of billed charges 27 Other 16

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	218	$2.6k	$4.3k	$6.3k	145%	—	$200 – $38.3k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	183	$7.2k	$9.7k	$7.2k	74%	—	$0 – $33.7k
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	155	$2.2k	$5.7k	$6.2k	110%	—	$79 – $33.6k
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	119	$4.2k	$10.4k	$10.2k	98%	—	$0 – $65.5k
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	102	$912	$3.1k	$3.3k	108%	—	$814 – $16.0k
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	87	$1.3k	$2.6k	$2.8k	104%	—	$730 – $15.2k
7	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	37	$893	$991	$287	29%	—	$814 – $2.0k
8	Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	36	$664	$698	$147	21%	—	$235 – $1.2k
9	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	31	$1.5k	$1.6k	$644	41%	—	$762 – $4.1k
10	WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	26	$825	$956	$239	25%	—	$725 – $1.6k
11	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	22	$664	$761	$341	45%	—	$434 – $2.3k
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	21	$912	$903	$10	1%	—	$885 – $912
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	18	$865	$682	$312	46%	—	$379 – $1.1k
14	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	18	$893	$876	$22	3%	—	$814 – $912
15	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	15	$1.7k	$1.5k	$481	33%	—	$459 – $2.4k
16	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	14	$446	$558	$160	29%	—	$390 – $982
17	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	13	$1.1k	$1.2k	$309	26%	—	$561 – $3.2k
18	MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +5 other terms	13	$1.7k	$1.6k	$521	32%	—	$685 – $3.0k
19	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	13	$662	$1.2k	$1.3k	109%	—	$1 – $4.4k
20	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$1.7k	$1.7k	$516	31%	—	$840 – $2.2k
21	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	12	$1.6k	$2.4k	$3.4k	138%	—	$0 – $13.4k
22	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	12	$732	$732	—	—	—	$732 – $732
23	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	12	$4.3k	$3.6k	$1.6k	45%	—	$1.1k – $5.4k
24	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	12	$851	$855	$12	1%	—	$851 – $894
25	Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient	11	$753	$954	$373	39%	—	$669 – $1.8k

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