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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Alabama 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?

$2,298

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,298 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $676 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,622 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$676$372 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,622$832 to $15,136

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $447 to $17,783Professionalmedian $676 · 10th to 90th $363 to $692
$50.0$200.0$1.0K$5.0K$20.0Kfacility $1,622professional $676

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
$575.44
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$3,630.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$691.83
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13,803.84
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$22,387.21
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$11,220.18
Typical High
$22,908.68
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$616.60

Where Alabama 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 feeAlabama $2,298 · 34th 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.