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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Massachusetts 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 October 2026.

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

$984

Typical total for the visit. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $984 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $537 to the doctor who performs it, and $447 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$537$427 to $912
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$447$263 to $832

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $447 · 10th to 90th $191 to $2,818Professionalmedian $537 · 10th to 90th $263 to $1,820
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $447professional $537

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$501.19
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$2,398.83
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$2,398.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$21,877.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,096.48
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$537.03
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$524.81
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$2,818.38
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,096.48
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$2,398.83
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$2,818.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,778.28
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$575.44
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$363.08
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$63.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$42.66
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$346.74

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 27.0 times more in Alabama 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

Massachusetts· 38th of 51

$984

$537 physician + $447 facility

AL $15,422MD $571

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.