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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Louisiana 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?

$2,579

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,579 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,089 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$490$457 to $589
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,089$933 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,089 · 10th to 90th $457 to $6,607Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $417 to $1,175
$0.1$1.0$10.0$100.0$1.0K$10.0Kfacility $2,089professional $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
$512.86
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$3,715.35
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,466.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$18,197.01
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$794.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$794.33

Where Louisiana 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 feeLouisiana $2,579 · 30th 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.