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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 July 2026.

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

$2,074

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,074 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,096 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$977$646 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,096$457 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $427 to $18,197Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $457 to $2,754
$100.0$500.0$2.0K$10.0Kfacility $1,096professional $977

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. 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
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$33,884.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,412.54
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,348.96
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$3,235.94
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,187.76
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,348.96
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$2,041.74

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 21.9 times more in California than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility feeAlaska $2,074 · 39th of 49
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.