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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Montana 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?

$403

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $403 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $251 to the doctor who performs it, and $151 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$251$166 to $282
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$151$138 to $263

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $151 · 10th to 90th $138 to $269Professionalmedian $251 · 10th to 90th $79 to $309
$100$200$500facility $151professional $251

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$257.04
BCBS Montana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$323.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$263.03
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$147.91
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$323.59
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$281.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$524.81
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$346.74

Where Montana 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

Montana· 42nd of 51

$403

$251 physician + $151 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.