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Surgical Exploration Of A Leg Artery

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 35703

Surgery that opens the area around an artery in the leg to examine it directly. It is exploratory only; no repair is performed as part of this service. It applies to arteries anywhere from the thigh through the calf.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Surgical Exploration Of A Leg Artery cost?

$1,234

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,234 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $631 to the doctor who performs it, and $603 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$631$479 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$603$437 to $1,549

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $603 · 10th to 90th $309 to $3,548Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $389 to $2,754
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $603professional $631

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
$1,548.82
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$478.63
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$3,630.78
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,754.23
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,122.02
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$616.60
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,073.80
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,258.93
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$3,630.78
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,754.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,819.70
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$616.60
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$398.11
1 more rate 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
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$758.58

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 7.2 times more in Maine than in Maryland. 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

Massachusetts· 47th of 51

$1,234

$631 physician + $603 facility

ME $7,377MD $1,030

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.