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Temporary Balloon Blockage of a Head or Neck Artery

Rhode Island 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?

$6,315

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,315 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $692 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,623 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$692$661 to $977
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,623$2,455 to $10,471

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,623 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $17,783Professionalmedian $692 · 10th to 90th $562 to $1,047
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,623professional $692

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
$3,715.35
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$13,803.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$19,054.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,023.29
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
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$501.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$67.61

Where Rhode Island 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

Rhode Island· 38th of 51

$6,315

$692 physician + $5,623 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.