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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Nebraska 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?

$1,836

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,836 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $813 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,023 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$813$661 to $955
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,023$224 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $120 to $33,884Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $501 to $1,148
$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,023professional $813

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
$1,548.82
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$12,589.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$1,445.44
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$33,884.42
Typical High
$70,794.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,023.29
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,230.27
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,398.83
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,047.13
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$1,288.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,202.26

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 16th of 51

$1,836

$813 physician + $1,023 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.