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Stent to Open a Blocked Thigh or Knee Artery

Minnesota 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 October 2026.

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

$16,218

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16,218 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $15,136 from a physician practice, and about $16,596 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$15,136$1,514 to $25,119
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$16,596$10,965 to $23,988

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $16,596 · 10th to 90th $3,981 to $37,154Professionalmedian $15,136 · 10th to 90th $1,023 to $33,113
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $16,596professional $15,136

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
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15,135.61
Median
$23,988.33
Typical High
$50,118.72
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12,022.64
Median
$19,952.62
Typical High
$38,018.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$13,182.57
Typical High
$33,113.11
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11,481.54
Median
$18,620.87
Typical High
$32,359.37
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$26,915.35
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$21,379.62
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11,220.18
Median
$19,952.62
Typical High
$43,651.58
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 Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$22,387.21
Median
$39,810.72
Typical High
$75,857.76

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 123.0 times more in Texas than in Hawaii. 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.

Minnesota· 11th of 44

$16,218

TX $56,234HI $457

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.