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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Arizona 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?

$995

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $995 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $182 to the doctor who performs it, and $813 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$182$158 to $240
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$813$316 to $2,239

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $200 to $3,311Professionalmedian $182 · 10th to 90th $132 to $3,388
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $813professional $182

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$275.42
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$4,265.80
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$165.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$18,620.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$281.84
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$2,041.74
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$302.00
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
$79.43
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$36.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$27.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$18.20

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 13th of 51

$995

$182 physician + $813 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.