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Catheter Closure of a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Alabama rates for HCPCS 93591

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 July 2026.

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

$8,511

Typical facility fee. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,511 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2,291 to $16,218.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,511 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $19,953
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $8,511

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
$1,096.48
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,630.78
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13,803.84
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$22,387.21
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$11,220.18
Typical High
$22,908.68
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$21,379.62

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 43.7 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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.

Alabama· 17th of 50

$8,511

IN $38,905WV $891

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.