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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Tennessee 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?

$404

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $404 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $200 to the doctor who performs it, and $204 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$200$158 to $309
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$204$120 to $741

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $204 · 10th to 90th $100 to $9,333Professionalmedian $200 · 10th to 90th $123 to $3,467
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $204professional $200

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
$158.49
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$234.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$275.42
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$309.03
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$208.93
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$169.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,709.64
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$22,908.68
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$363.08
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$389.05
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
$79.43
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$41.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$31.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$20.89

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 41st of 51

$404

$200 physician + $204 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.