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Removing a Clot From a Forearm Artery

Arizona rates for HCPCS 34111

Opens one of the arteries running down the forearm through an incision in the arm and extracts a clot or an embolus blocking it, usually by drawing a small balloon-tipped catheter back along the vessel. Restoring flow relieves the pain, coldness, and numbness of a hand starved of blood. It is done urgently once the blockage is recognized.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Removing a Clot From a Forearm Artery cost?

$4,627

Typical total for the visit. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,627 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $646 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,981 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$646$603 to $851
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,981$1,905 to $6,607

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $9,120Professionalmedian $646 · 10th to 90th $550 to $7,244
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,981professional $646

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$676.08
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$7,762.47
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,096.48
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,606.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$977.24
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$13,803.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,122.02
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$331.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$501.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$66.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$467.74

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 5.6 times more in Wisconsin than in Montana. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Arizona· 28th of 51

$4,627

$646 physician + $3,981 facility

WI $10,313MT $1,845

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.