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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Pennsylvania 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?

$1,467

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,467 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $977 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$490$389 to $631
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$977$158 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $977 · 10th to 90th $83 to $8,511Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $363 to $813
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $977professional $490

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
$660.69
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$10,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$660.69
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$79,432.82
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,760.83
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$11,748.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$794.33
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$537.03
Geisinger
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$831.76
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$10,000.00
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$501.19
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$489.78
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$489.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$1,230.27
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$812.83
10 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
$181.97
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$331.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$66.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$43.65
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$218.78
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$87.10
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$331.13
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$66.07
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$43.65

Where Pennsylvania 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

Pennsylvania· 24th of 51

$1,467

$490 physician + $977 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.