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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Georgia 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?

$5,276

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,276 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,786 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$490$398 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,786$2,692 to $7,413

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,786 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $11,482Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $363 to $1,202
$50.0$200.0$1.0K$5.0K$20.0Kfacility $4,786professional $490

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
$1,778.28
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,230.27
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,128.31
Median
$26,302.68
Typical High
$34,673.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,122.02
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,023.29

Where Georgia 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 feeGeorgia $5,276 · 12th 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.