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Stent to Open a Blocked Thigh or Knee Artery

Arizona rates for HCPCS 37226

A catheter is threaded to a narrowed or blocked artery in the thigh or behind the knee, and a small metal mesh tube is expanded inside the vessel to hold it open. Ballooning the vessel is included when it is needed to prepare or finish the treatment. It treats one leg and restores blood flow that has been choked off by hardening of the arteries.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Stent to Open a Blocked Thigh or Knee Artery cost?

$10,000

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10,000 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11,482 from a physician practice, and about $7,762 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$11,482$9,550 to $20,893
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,762$933 to $12,303

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,762 · 10th to 90th $589 to $16,596Professionalmedian $11,482 · 10th to 90th $8,511 to $58,884
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $7,762professional $11,482

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
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10,232.93
Median
$10,232.93
Typical High
$10,232.93
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$16,595.87
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,709.64
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$58,884.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$15,488.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$7,413.10

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 1071.5 times more in Indiana than in Idaho. 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.

Arizona· 25th of 50

$10,000

IN $35,481ID $33.11

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.