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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Kansas 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?

$2,175

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,175 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $269 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,905 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$269$214 to $275
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,905$407 to $2,089

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $269 to $2,089Professionalmedian $269 · 10th to 90th $195 to $417
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,905professional $269

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
$275.42
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$407.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$281.84
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,089.30
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,585.78
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$10,964.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$323.59
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,819.70
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$257.04
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
$97.72
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$56.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$42.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$28.18

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 3rd of 51

$2,175

$269 physician + $1,905 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.