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Implantable defibrillator (ICD) in North Carolina: what insurers pay Posted commercial rates at 7 North Carolina hospitals, each next to its own Medicare base rate.
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CPT 33249 Hospital Median across insurers × Medicare Insurers File date UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill) Chapel Hill $66,023 2.1× 4 2026-04-01 UNC Rex Hospital Raleigh $82,346 2.6× 1 2026-04-01
MS-DRG 277 Hospital Median across insurers × Medicare Insurers File date North Carolina Specialty Hospital Durham $52,357 1.6× 1 2026-02-25 Duke Regional Hospital Durham $63,968 2.0× 2 2026-04-01 Duke University Hospital Durham $74,638 2.3× 2 2026-04-01 UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill) Chapel Hill $76,758 2.4× 4 2026-04-01 Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $77,160 2.4× 2 2025-12-05 UNC Rex Hospital Raleigh $80,219 2.4× 4 2026-04-01 Novant Health Matthews Medical Center Matthews $90,287 2.8× 3 2026-03-30
MS-DRG 276 Hospital Median across insurers × Medicare Insurers File date Duke Regional Hospital Durham $67,926 1.6× 2 2026-04-01 North Carolina Specialty Hospital Durham $69,718 1.6× 1 2026-02-25 Duke University Hospital Durham $82,086 1.9× 1 2026-04-01 UNC Rex Hospital Raleigh $93,164 2.1× 4 2026-04-01 UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill) Chapel Hill $102,210 2.4× 4 2026-04-01 Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $102,744 2.5× 2 2025-12-05 Novant Health Matthews Medical Center Matthews $117,423 2.8× 3 2026-03-30
MS-DRG 275 Hospital Median across insurers × Medicare Insurers File date Duke Regional Hospital Durham $75,084 1.5× 2 2026-04-01 North Carolina Specialty Hospital Durham $79,539 1.6× 1 2026-02-25 Duke University Hospital Durham $97,444 1.9× 1 2026-04-01 Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $117,218 2.4× 2 2025-12-05 UNC Rex Hospital Raleigh $121,559 2.4× 3 2026-04-01 UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill) Chapel Hill $134,809 2.7× 2 2026-04-01 Novant Health Matthews Medical Center Matthews $139,392 2.8× 3 2026-03-30
Questions How much do insurers pay for implantable defibrillator (icd) in North Carolina? 7 North Carolina hospitals post usable commercial rates for implantable defibrillator (icd) in their federal price-transparency files. For CPT 33249, hospital outpatient, the median across 2 hospitals is $74,185 , 2.3× each hospital's local Medicare base rate. Your share depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance; the surgeon and anesthesia bill separately.
Techy Surgeon Price Atlas · commercial rates from hospital price-transparency files as of 2026-09-27. Commercial plans only; payer-specific dollar amounts for the exact code and setting (grade A); no professional-fee, percent-of-charges, per-diem, algorithm or unnamed-payer rows; no duplicate campus files; each rate between 0.5x (outpatient) or 0.6x (inpatient) and 8x the same hospital's local Medicare base rate. Median across each insurer's plans. Historical rates the hospitals themselves posted. Percentiles only where the comparison group has 5 or more hospitals. Market transparency, not pricing guidance. Medicare anchor = the same hospital's local Medicare base rate (OPPS or IPPS FY2026, wage-adjusted; inpatient anchors exclude teaching and safety-net add-ons). Rates are posted contract amounts, not what any patient paid. Method . Free to use; cite as Techy Surgeon Price Atlas (2026).