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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

South Carolina 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?

$7,092

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,092 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $174 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,918 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$174$112 to $269
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,918$661 to $16,218

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,918 · 10th to 90th $115 to $21,878Professionalmedian $174 · 10th to 90th $79 to $309
$100$1K$10Kfacility $6,918professional $174

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
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$389.05
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,309.57
Median
$14,454.40
Typical High
$19,952.62
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$323.59
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$22,908.68
Median
$44,668.36
Typical High
$61,659.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$416.87
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$467.74
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$295.12
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$131.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$323.59
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
$85.11
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$35.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$26.30
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$17.38

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 2nd of 51

$7,092

$174 physician + $6,918 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.