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Clot Removal From An Artery In The Brain

Minnesota 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?

$6,026

Typical facility fee. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,026 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2,188 to $22,387.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $1,585 to $41,687
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $6,026

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
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$6,918.31
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15,135.61
Median
$28,183.83
Typical High
$81,283.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,585.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
22 · Increased work
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$6,025.60
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$8,511.38

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 14th of 49

$6,026

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.