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Catheter Closure of a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Washington 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?

$14,328

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $14,328 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,445 to the doctor who performs it, and $12,882 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 10 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,445$1,148 to $1,950
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$12,882$8,511 to $39,811

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $12,882 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $69,183Professionalmedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $275 to $2,291
$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $12,882professional $1,445

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
$1,737.80
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$28,183.83
Typical High
$70,794.58
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$7,585.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18,620.87
Median
$19,498.45
Typical High
$37,153.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$3,019.95
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,818.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,137.96
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,137.96
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$13,489.63
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$38,904.51
Median
$51,286.14
Typical High
$97,723.72
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$70,794.58
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,235.94
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,862.09
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
$691.83
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$288.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,096.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$144.54

Where Washington 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

Washington· 15th of 51

$14,328

$1,445 physician + $12,882 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.