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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Texas 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 July 2026.

How much does Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery cost?

$977

Typical facility fee. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $977 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $195 to $12,589.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $977 · 10th to 90th $129 to $26,303
$100.0$1.0K$10.0Kfacility $977

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$12,589.25
Typical High
$26,302.68
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$18,197.01
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$79.43
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12,302.69
Median
$17,782.79
Typical High
$36,307.81
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$2,630.27
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$416.87
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$19,952.62
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,398.83

Where Texas sits

The same service costs 195.0 times more in Utah than in Hawaii. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Texas $977 · 13th of 49
UT $18,197HI $93.33

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.