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Catheter Closure of a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Louisiana 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?

$4,074

Typical facility fee. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,074 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2,399 to $10,000.

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 $4,074 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $22,387
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $4,074

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
$1,122.02
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$9,549.93
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15,488.17
Median
$26,302.68
Typical High
$38,904.51
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$18,197.01
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$16,982.44
Typical High
$41,686.94

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 39th of 50

$4,074

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.