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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Oregon 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?

$599

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $599 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $275 to the doctor who performs it, and $324 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$275$191 to $427
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$324$275 to $347

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $324 · 10th to 90th $204 to $363Professionalmedian $275 · 10th to 90th $107 to $501
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $324professional $275

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
$117.49
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$478.63
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$204.17
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$467.74
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$389.05
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$346.74
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$467.74
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$501.19
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$588.84

Where Oregon 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

Oregon· 33rd of 51

$599

$275 physician + $324 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.