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Balloon Widening of an Artery Inside the Head

Alaska rates for HCPCS 61630

A thin catheter is threaded up through the blood vessels into the head, and a small balloon is inflated inside a narrowed artery to open it up. Widening the vessel restores blood flow to brain tissue that is being starved of it. Nothing is cut open; the catheter enters through a vessel in the groin or the wrist.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Balloon Widening of an Artery Inside the Head cost?

$11,952

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11,952 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $5,495 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,457 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$5,495$3,631 to $5,495
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,457$1,820 to $20,417

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $251,189Professionalmedian $5,495 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $7,943
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $6,457professional $5,495

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$14,125.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,466.84
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$9,120.11
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$9,120.11
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$251,188.64
Typical High
$251,188.64
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$8,912.51

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 16.9 times more in Maine than in Maryland. 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

Alaska· 7th of 51

$11,952

$5,495 physician + $6,457 facility

ME $34,221MD $2,029

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.