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Balloon Widening of an Artery Inside the Head

Georgia 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?

$3,351

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,351 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,905 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,445 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$1,905$1,660 to $2,399
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,445$646 to $5,248

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $513 to $11,220Professionalmedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $1,380 to $3,548
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $1,445professional $1,905

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
$1,380.38
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,621.81
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,137.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$16,218.10
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,388.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,137.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$562.34
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$5,754.40
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$4,168.69

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 32nd of 51

$3,351

$1,905 physician + $1,445 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.