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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

North Dakota 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?

$1,123

Typical total for the visit. In North Dakota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,123 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $724 to the doctor who performs it, and $398 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$724$575 to $832
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$398$251 to $398

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $398 · 10th to 90th $126 to $708Professionalmedian $724 · 10th to 90th $407 to $891
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $398professional $724

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$501.19
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$891.25
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
22 · Increased work
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,071.52
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$660.69
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,148.15
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$707.95
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$870.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$269.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$851.14

Where North Dakota 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

North Dakota· 32nd of 51

$1,123

$724 physician + $398 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.