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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 93592

Placement of an additional plug to seal a leak around an artificial heart valve, during the same catheter procedure in which the first plug is placed. The plug travels to the heart through a thin tube threaded up a blood vessel, and closes a gap between the artificial valve and the surrounding heart tissue. It is billed in addition to the main procedure.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve cost?

$6,125

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,125 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $501 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,623 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 63 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$501$407 to $794
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,623$1,995 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,623 · 10th to 90th $692 to $16,982Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $355 to $1,820
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,623professional $501

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
$831.76
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$13,803.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$2,754.23
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,760.83
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$23,988.33
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,122.02
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$15,135.61
Typical High
$36,307.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$977.24

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 21.9 times more in California than in Maryland. 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

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CA $11,527MD $527

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.