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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

South Carolina 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 July 2026.

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

$6,022

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,022 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,623 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$398$380 to $407
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,623$1,096 to $13,490

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,623 · 10th to 90th $398 to $22,909Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $347 to $617
$100.0$1.0K$10.0Kfacility $5,623professional $398

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$407.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16,982.44
Median
$30,902.95
Typical High
$61,659.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$977.24
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$912.01
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$776.25

Where South Carolina sits

The same service costs 21.9 times more in California than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility feeSouth Carolina $6,022 · 8th of 49
CA $11,527MD $527

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.