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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Illinois 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?

$807

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $807 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $204 to the doctor who performs it, and $603 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$204$162 to $257
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$603$219 to $1,413

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $603 · 10th to 90th $138 to $3,981Professionalmedian $204 · 10th to 90th $115 to $355
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $603professional $204

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
$123.03
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$218.78
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$4,786.30
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$177.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$14,125.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$323.59
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$676.08
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$251.19
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$416.87
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
$91.20
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$43.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$21.88

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 21st of 51

$807

$204 physician + $603 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.