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Balloon Widening of an Artery Inside the Head

Alabama 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?

$18,080

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18,080 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,862 to the doctor who performs it, and $16,218 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$1,862$1,349 to $2,089
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$16,218$933 to $16,596

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $16,218 · 10th to 90th $513 to $16,596Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $2,089
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $16,218professional $1,862

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
$776.25
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,630.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16,218.10
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$16,595.87
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,187.76

Where Alabama 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

Alabama· 2nd of 51

$18,080

$1,862 physician + $16,218 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.