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Removing a Clot From a Forearm Artery

Illinois 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?

$6,494

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,494 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,623 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$871$724 to $977
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,623$3,715 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,623 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $10,471Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $661 to $1,288
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $5,623professional $871

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
$645.65
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,122.02
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,786.30
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$9,772.37
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$7,244.36
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,174.90
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$851.14
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$13,489.63
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,412.54
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
$331.13
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$147.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$562.34
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$112.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$74.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$524.81

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 10th of 51

$6,494

$871 physician + $5,623 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.