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Dialysis Access Clot Removal With Balloon

Louisiana 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?

$5,757

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,757 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,042 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,715 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$2,042$617 to $2,951
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,715$2,344 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $933 to $16,218Professionalmedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $513 to $3,388
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,715professional $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
$891.25
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,388.44
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10,000.00
Median
$16,982.44
Typical High
$24,547.09
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$3,801.89
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,549.93
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$9,549.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$24,547.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$4,466.84

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 37th of 50

$5,757

$2,042 physician + $3,715 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.