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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 92973

A device passed through a catheter breaks up and draws out a blood clot blocking a heart artery, restoring flow through the vessel. It is done during a catheter procedure on the heart arteries, usually alongside opening the vessel with a balloon or a stent, and is billed in addition to that work. Nothing is cut open in the chest.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery cost?

$6,831

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,831 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $224 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,607 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 49 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$224$112 to $331
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,607$437 to $12,882

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,607 · 10th to 90th $195 to $17,783Professionalmedian $224 · 10th to 90th $81 to $479
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $6,607professional $224

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
$141.25
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$23,442.29
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$11,220.18
Typical High
$17,782.79
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$14,791.08
Typical High
$36,307.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$3,715.35

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 140.6 times more in Utah 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

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UT $31,863MD $227

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.