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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Arkansas 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 October 2026.

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

$386

Typical total for the visit. In Arkansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $386 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $224 to the doctor who performs it, and $162 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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$224$191 to $288
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$162$95.50 to $708

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $162 · 10th to 90th $81 to $7,079Professionalmedian $224 · 10th to 90th $166 to $339
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $162professional $224

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$263.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$218.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$8,317.64
Typical High
$15,848.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$398.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$354.81
4 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$43.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$32.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$21.88

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 40.2 times more in Alabama than in Delaware. 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

Arkansas· 44th of 51

$386

$224 physician + $162 facility

AL $12,840DE $320

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.