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Heart Artery Stent Placement, One Artery

North Carolina rates for HCPCS 92928

A catheter is threaded through a blood vessel to a narrowed or blocked coronary artery, where a stent, a small mesh tube, is placed to hold the artery open and restore blood flow to the heart muscle. This version covers treatment of one major coronary artery or one of its branches.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Artery Stent Placement, One Artery cost?

$13,543

Typical total for the visit. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13,543 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $661 to the doctor who performs it, and $12,882 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$661$537 to $1,259
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$12,882$7,244 to $16,982

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $12,882 · 10th to 90th $1,660 to $17,783Professionalmedian $661 · 10th to 90th $389 to $1,738
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $12,882professional $661

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
$2,570.40
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$17,782.79
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$288.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,737.80
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,047.13
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15,848.93
Median
$27,542.29
Typical High
$32,359.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,548.82
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$15,135.61
Typical High
$39,810.72
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,548.82
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40,738.03
Median
$40,738.03
Typical High
$40,738.03
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$33,113.11
Median
$33,113.11
Typical High
$33,113.11
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$8,128.31
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$8,128.31
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$4,897.79

Where North Carolina sits

The same service costs 45.0 times more in Delaware than in North Dakota. 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

North Carolina· 13th of 51

$13,543

$661 physician + $12,882 facility

DE $54,292ND $1,206

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.