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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Missouri 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?

$918

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $918 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $257 to the doctor who performs it, and $661 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$257$219 to $331
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$661$245 to $2,630

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $661 · 10th to 90th $132 to $17,378Professionalmedian $257 · 10th to 90th $186 to $513
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $661professional $257

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
$186.21
Median
$30,902.95
Typical High
$32,359.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$281.84
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12,302.69
Median
$17,378.01
Typical High
$21,877.62
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$354.81
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$134.90
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$14,125.38
Typical High
$38,018.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$389.05
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$2,630.27
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$467.74
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
$97.72
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$42.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$32.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$21.38

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 14th of 51

$918

$257 physician + $661 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.