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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Kentucky 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?

$382

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $382 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $204 to the doctor who performs it, and $178 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$178 to $240
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$178$135 to $389

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $178 · 10th to 90th $100 to $832Professionalmedian $204 · 10th to 90th $148 to $324
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $178professional $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
$177.83
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$251.19
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$245.47
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$257.04
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$263.03
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$169.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$812.83
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$1,148.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$323.59
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
$87.10
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$42.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$31.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$21.38

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 45th of 51

$382

$204 physician + $178 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.