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Dialysis Access Clot Removal With Balloon

Alabama rates for HCPCS 36905

Restores a blocked dialysis access, wherever in the body it was created. Working through a needle puncture, the surgeon breaks up and draws out the clot and then stretches the narrowed part of the vessel open with a balloon carried on a thin tube. The X-ray pictures taken to guide and check the work are part of the service.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Dialysis Access Clot Removal With Balloon cost?

$9,286

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9,286 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,042 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,244 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$2,042$603 to $3,090
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,244$2,138 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,244 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $11,749Professionalmedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $437 to $3,715
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,244professional $2,042

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$8,128.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,715.35
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$501.19
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,128.31
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$12,882.50
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$12,589.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$3,090.30

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 9.7 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Alabama· 18th of 50

$9,286

$2,042 physician + $7,244 facility

IN $29,164WV $2,997

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.