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Balloon Widening of an Artery Inside the Head

Texas 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?

$3,717

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,717 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,318 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,399 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,318$1,023 to $1,995
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,399$1,288 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $603 to $11,482Professionalmedian $1,318 · 10th to 90th $209 to $11,220
$1K$10K$100Kfacility $2,399professional $1,318

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
$1,122.02
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,584.89
BCBS Texas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$16,218.10
BCBS Texas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,884.03
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,238.72
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11,220.18
Median
$13,182.57
Typical High
$13,182.57
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$6,918.31
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,698.24
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,380.38
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$251,188.64
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,187.76
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,258.93

Where Texas 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

Texas· 26th of 51

$3,717

$1,318 physician + $2,399 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.