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Surgery and procedures CPT 33208 Outpatient

Pacemaker implant cost in Cincinnati, OH

In Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, 13 hospitals list a cash price for pacemaker implant (dual chamber): from $8,327.60 to $42,022.47, with a median of $9,278.40. The lowest listed price is at Fort Hamilton Hospital — $950.80 less than the median here. Across Ohio, the median is $15,592.13 at 96 hospitals.

  • The median here, $9,278.40, is 34% below the US median of $14,000.00.
  • Cincinnati, OH has the lowest median of 3 metro areas in Ohio with at least 10 hospitals pricing this code.
  • 2 of 13 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Cash prices at 13 facilities across 8 cities for code 33208, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Jul 1, 2026.

Lowest$8,327.60Fort Hamilton Hospital
Median$9,278.40half of hospitals charge less
Highest$42,022.47in this market
Difference5.0×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN.

median
Lowest $8,327.60Highest $42,022.47

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Fort Hamilton Hospital lowest Hamilton, OH · (513) 867-2123 Hc Insert Perm Pacemaker A & V File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $8,327.60 $20,819.00 — 60%
West Chester Hospital West Chester, OH · (513) 298-7701 Hc Insert/Replace Pacer Atrial&Ventrical File of Jul 1, 2026 · source file $8,809.20 $14,682.00 — 40%
University of Cincinnati Medical Center Cincinnati, OH · (513) 584-1000 Hc Insert/Replace Pacer Atrial&Ventrical File of Jul 1, 2026 · source file $8,809.20 $14,682.00 — 40%
Mercy Health Anderson Hospital Cincinnati, OH · (513) 624-4500 HC Ins/Repl of Dual Cham Ppm Lead File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $9,278.40 $15,464.00 — 40%
Mercy Health West Hospital Cincinnati, OH · (513) 215-5000 HC Ins/Repl of Dual Cham Ppm Lead File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $9,278.40 $15,464.00 — 40%
Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital Fairfield, OH · (513) 870-7000 HC Ins/Repl of Dual Cham Ppm Lead File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $9,278.40 $15,464.00 — 40%
The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health Cincinnati, OH · (513) 686-3000 HC Ins/Repl of Dual Cham Ppm Lead File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $9,278.40 $15,464.00 — 40%
Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital Mason, OH · (513) 637-9999 HC Ins/Repl of Dual Cham Ppm Lead File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $9,278.40 $15,464.00 — 40%
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati, OH · (513) 862-2601 HC Ppm Insert Av Seq With Leads File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $12,375.00 $16,500.00 — 25%
Bethesda North Cincinnati, OH · (513) 865-1111 HC Ppm Insert Av Seq With Leads File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $12,375.00 $16,500.00 — 25%
McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Oxford, OH · (513) 523-2111 HC Ppm Insert Av Seq With Leads File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $12,375.00 $16,500.00 — 25%
Atrium Medical Center Middletown, OH · (513) 420-5102 HC INSERT OR REPLACE PACEMAKER WITH ATRIAL AND VENTRICULAR LEADS File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $29,187.00 $29,187.00 — —
St Elizabeth Edgewood Edgewood, KY · (859) 301-2000 HB INS/RPLC PER PM W/ELECT-ATRL AND VENT File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $42,022.47 $42,022.47 — —
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.
No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More
Check the item The description in the hospital file looks like a supply or device (a catheter, a brace, an implant), not this procedure. The hospital may have filed it under the wrong code: ask before relying on this price.

Outpatient: lowest $8,327.60, median $9,278.40, highest $42,022.47 — a 5.0× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 10 facilities here, median $9,278.40. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

What pacemaker implant is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Pacemaker implant explained.

2 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 33208 ($12,406.36). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

HospitalCash priceFile
Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OHHb Insertion Of Biventricular Pacemaker $823.65 file
Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OHHb Insertion Of Dual Chamber Pacemaker $926.16 file
File Link to the hospital's own price file.