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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Alaska 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 October 2026.

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

$2,297

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,297 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,122 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,175 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,122$813 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,175$955 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $603 to $16,596Professionalmedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $457 to $2,042
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $1,175professional $1,122

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$18,197.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$16,595.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,412.54
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$33,884.42
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,754.23
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,513.56
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,202.26
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,174.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 27.0 times more in Alabama 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

Alaska· 12th of 51

$2,297

$1,122 physician + $1,175 facility

AL $15,422MD $571

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.