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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Ohio 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?

$736

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $736 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $186 to the doctor who performs it, and $550 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$186$158 to $245
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$550$186 to $1,479

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $550 · 10th to 90th $107 to $20,893Professionalmedian $186 · 10th to 90th $89 to $363
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $550professional $186

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
$281.84
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$630.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$602.56
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$2,238.72
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$281.84
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$213.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12,882.50
Median
$22,387.21
Typical High
$23,988.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$354.81
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12,882.50
Median
$22,387.21
Typical High
$53,703.18
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$354.81
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$97.72
SummaCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$269.15
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$457.09
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
$93.33
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$60.26

Where Ohio 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

Ohio· 24th of 51

$736

$186 physician + $550 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.