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Balloon Widening of an Artery Inside the Head

North Carolina 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?

$2,973

Typical total for the visit. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,973 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,950 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,023 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,950$1,380 to $2,692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,023$575 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $389 to $7,244Professionalmedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $1,349 to $3,236
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $1,023professional $1,950

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
$1,288.25
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,584.89
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,630.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$29,512.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,467.37
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,137.96
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,235.94
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
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,905.46
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$776.25
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
81 · Minimal assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$537.03
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
82 · Assistant surgeon, no resident
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$537.03
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$537.03

Where North Carolina 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

North Carolina· 39th of 51

$2,973

$1,950 physician + $1,023 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.