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Temporary Balloon Blockage of a Head or Neck Artery

Illinois rates for HCPCS 61623

A catheter is threaded through the blood vessels up to a chosen artery in the head or neck, where a small balloon is inflated to halt flow through it for a short time. While flow is stopped, the person's speech, strength, and awareness are watched closely to see whether the brain tolerates losing that vessel. X-ray imaging guides the catheter throughout and records what happens.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Temporary Balloon Blockage of a Head or Neck Artery cost?

$11,046

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11,046 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $813 to the doctor who performs it, and $10,233 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$813$617 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$10,233$4,571 to $14,454

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,233 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $17,378Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $550 to $1,318
$100$1K$10Kfacility $10,233professional $813

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
$812.83
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$10,232.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,317.64
Median
$13,803.84
Typical High
$17,378.01
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$13,182.57
Typical High
$16,595.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,148.15
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,511.89
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$870.96
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$25,703.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,348.96
5 more rates 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
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$123.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$61.66

Where Illinois sits

The same service costs 9.8 times more in Alaska than in Montana. 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

Illinois· 9th of 51

$11,046

$813 physician + $10,233 facility

AK $17,480MT $1,783

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.