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Clot Removal From An Artery In The Brain

Arizona rates for HCPCS 61645

Threads a catheter up through an artery to a blocked vessel inside the head and removes the clot, using a retrieval device, suction, a clot-dissolving drug delivered straight into the clot, or a combination of these. The X-ray pictures taken to find the blockage and confirm the result are part of the same work. It is the emergency treatment for a stroke caused by a large blocked artery.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Clot Removal From An Artery In The Brain cost?

$4,571

Typical facility fee. In Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,571 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2,239 to $6,761.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $1,318 to $10,471
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $4,571

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$10,715.19
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$4,570.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23,442.29
Median
$23,442.29
Typical High
$23,442.29
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$5,128.61

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 25.7 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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.

Arizona· 23rd of 49

$4,571

IN $20,417WV $794

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.