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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Rhode Island 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?

$240

Typical physician fee. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $240 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $191 to $331.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $316 · 10th to 90th $98 to $3,890Professionalmedian $240 · 10th to 90th $162 to $355
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $316professional $240

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
$169.82
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$346.74
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$331.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$371.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$316.23

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 3.7 times more in Wisconsin than in Washington. 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.

Rhode Island· 24th of 51

$240

WI $603WA $162

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.