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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Florida 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?

$863

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $863 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $155 to the doctor who performs it, and $708 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$155$117 to $219
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$708$151 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $708 · 10th to 90th $83 to $25,704Professionalmedian $155 · 10th to 90th $72 to $324
$100$1K$10Kfacility $708professional $155

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
$151.36
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$16,982.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$275.42
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$117.49
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$44,668.36
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$223.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$19,952.62
Typical High
$47,863.01
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$363.08
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$190.55
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$141.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$2,818.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$457.09
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$117.49
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
$74.13
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$97.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$38.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$29.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$19.50

Where Florida 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

Florida· 16th of 51

$863

$155 physician + $708 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.