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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Nebraska 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?

$633

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $633 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $331 to the doctor who performs it, and $302 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$331$257 to $407
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$302$151 to $2,630

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $302 · 10th to 90th $115 to $22,387Professionalmedian $331 · 10th to 90th $191 to $468
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $302professional $331

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
$151.36
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$151.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$151.36
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$20,417.38
Typical High
$42,657.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$416.87
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,778.28
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$3,388.44
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$436.52
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$363.08
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$1,288.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$478.63

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 29th of 51

$633

$331 physician + $302 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.