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Catheter Closure of a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 93590

Seals a leak in the gap between a previously implanted artificial heart valve and the tissue it was sewn into. A catheter is threaded through a blood vessel to the heart, and a small plug is positioned in the gap and released, closing the channel without open-heart surgery. It treats the breathlessness, tiredness and anemia such a leak can cause.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Catheter Closure of a Leak Around a Heart Valve cost?

$3,299

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,299 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,479 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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$1,479$1,148 to $2,570
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$1,023 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $646 to $16,982Professionalmedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $741 to $6,607
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $1,820professional $1,479

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
$2,691.53
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,348.96
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$24,547.09
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$6,606.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$21,877.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$3,019.95
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,479.11
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,479.11
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$16,982.44
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$4,897.79
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$24,547.09
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$37,153.52
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$4,897.79
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,819.70
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,000.00
5 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
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 8.1 times more in Indiana than in Kentucky. 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

Massachusetts· 49th of 51

$3,299

$1,479 physician + $1,820 facility

IN $23,026KY $2,834

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.