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Removal Of Plaque From A Heart Artery

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 92924

A catheter with a cutting or grinding tip is threaded through the blood vessels to a narrowed heart artery, and the hardened plaque in the vessel wall is shaved or drilled away to restore blood flow. Balloon widening is carried out in the same session when it is needed. It is used for blockages too hard or calcified to open with a balloon alone.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Removal Of Plaque From A Heart Artery cost?

$12,153

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12,153 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $11,220 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 53 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$933$575 to $1,288
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$11,220$4,571 to $19,498

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $11,220 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $31,623Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $468 to $2,089
$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $11,220professional $933

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
$1,174.90
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$21,379.62
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,165.95
Median
$17,378.01
Typical High
$43,651.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$37,153.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$30,902.95

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 29.5 times more in Wisconsin 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

Touch or drag across the chart to see any state's rate.

WI $24,731MD $838

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.