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Temporary Balloon Blockage of a Head or Neck Artery

Missouri 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?

$5,060

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,060 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $794 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,266 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$794$646 to $1,023
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,266$2,042 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,266 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $11,482Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $575 to $1,995
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $4,266professional $794

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
$2,041.74
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$11,748.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$2,511.89
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,079.46
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,047.13
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$812.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$10,715.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,258.93
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$34,673.69
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$19,054.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,548.82
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
$239.88
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$117.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$446.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$89.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$58.88

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 43rd of 51

$5,060

$794 physician + $4,266 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.