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Temporary Balloon Blockage of a Head or Neck Artery

Kansas 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?

$6,665

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,665 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $776 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,888 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$776$676 to $891
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,888$1,549 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,888 · 10th to 90th $776 to $13,490Professionalmedian $776 · 10th to 90th $589 to $3,020
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $5,888professional $776

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
$2,398.83
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$11,748.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$891.25
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$10,232.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,174.90
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$17,378.01
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$18,197.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,071.52
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
$288.40
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$446.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$177.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$89.13

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 36th of 51

$6,665

$776 physician + $5,888 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.