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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Kentucky 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?

$2,205

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,205 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,778 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$427$407 to $501
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,778$457 to $6,166

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,778 · 10th to 90th $398 to $8,511Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $363 to $741
$50.0$200.0$1.0K$5.0Kfacility $1,778professional $427

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
$398.11
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,023.29
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$524.81
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$575.44
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$588.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$562.34
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,584.89
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,949.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$776.25

Where Kentucky 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 feeKentucky $2,205 · 35th 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.