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Clot Removal From An Artery In The Brain

Texas 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?

$2,692

Typical facility fee. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,692 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,148 to $5,248.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $776 to $11,749
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,692

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
$977.24
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$14,454.40
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$7,244.36
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,258.93
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$5,128.61
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,862.09
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$9,332.54

Where Texas 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.

Texas· 33rd of 49

$2,692

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.