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Balloon Widening of an Extra Lung Artery

Maryland rates for HCPCS 92998

Stretches open a narrowed artery carrying blood from the heart to the lungs, in a further vessel treated during the same session. A catheter with a balloon at its tip is threaded through a vein to the narrowed segment and inflated to widen it, easing the pressure the right side of the heart has to pump against. It is billed in addition to the main procedure.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Balloon Widening of an Extra Lung Artery cost?

$372

Typical physician fee. In Maryland, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $372 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $316 to $1,514.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $1,622 to $7,079Professionalmedian $347 · 10th to 90th $282 to $631
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,802professional $347

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
$288.40
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$380.19
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$363.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$954.99
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$588.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$724.44
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$426.58
2 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
$144.54
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$67.61

Where Maryland sits

The same service costs 17.0 times more in Oklahoma than in New York. 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.

Maryland· 48th of 51

$372

OK $5,623NY $331

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.