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Catheter Clot Removal From a Heart Artery

Virginia 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?

$896

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $896 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $204 to the doctor who performs it, and $692 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$204$174 to $245
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$692$224 to $1,778

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $692 · 10th to 90th $141 to $11,220Professionalmedian $204 · 10th to 90th $162 to $324
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $692professional $204

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
$162.18
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$22,387.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$323.59
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$245.47
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$234.42
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$46,773.51
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$363.08
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$114.82
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$331.13
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$2,454.71
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$2,089.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$371.54
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
$81.28
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$19.95

Where Virginia 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

Virginia· 15th of 51

$896

$204 physician + $692 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.