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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Rhode Island 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?

$550

Typical physician fee. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $550 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $437 to $794.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $562 · 10th to 90th $98 to $5,129Professionalmedian $550 · 10th to 90th $398 to $832
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $562professional $550

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
$1,513.56
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$7,079.46
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$831.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$724.44

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 3.0 times more in Wisconsin than in Florida. 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.

Rhode Island· 27th of 51

$550

WI $1,202FL $398

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.