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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 July 2026.

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

$5,643

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,643 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $631 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,012 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$407 to $912
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,012$3,890 to $10,471

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,012 · 10th to 90th $2,754 to $13,490Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $355 to $1,514
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,012professional $631

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
$3,388.44
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$12,302.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,513.56
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,290.87
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13,803.84
Median
$31,622.78
Typical High
$38,018.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,288.25
ConnectiCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$645.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$12,589.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,288.25

Where Connecticut sits

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

Connecticut· 10th of 49

$5,643

$631 physician + $5,012 facility

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.