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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Iowa 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?

$4,418

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,418 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $617 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,802 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$617$501 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,802$2,239 to $6,761

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $933 to $13,490Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $407 to $2,089
$200.0$500.0$1.0K$2.0K$5.0K$10.0Kfacility $3,802professional $617

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
$2,238.72
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$13,489.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$977.24
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,548.82
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,137.96
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,348.96
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,621.81
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,047.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,348.96
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$776.25

Where Iowa 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 feeIowa $4,418 · 18th 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.