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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Georgia 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?

$425

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $425 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $263 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$263$186 to $363
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$162$117 to $617

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $162 · 10th to 90th $81 to $2,291Professionalmedian $263 · 10th to 90th $162 to $447
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $162professional $263

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
$162.18
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$186.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$446.68
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$407.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$407.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$34,673.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$549.54
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$549.54
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
$81.28
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$40.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$30.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$19.95

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 40th of 51

$425

$263 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.