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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Connecticut 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?

$3,030

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,030 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $631 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,399 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$631$537 to $741
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,399$1,318 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $380 to $12,589Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $380 to $1,023
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,399professional $631

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,398.83
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$954.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13,803.84
Median
$31,622.78
Typical High
$38,018.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,047.13
ConnectiCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$645.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$6,309.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,445.44
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$125.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$93.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$63.10

Where Connecticut 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

Connecticut· 7th of 51

$3,030

$631 physician + $2,399 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.