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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 October 2026.

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

$1,548

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,548 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $525 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$525$389 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,023$151 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $91 to $33,113Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $324 to $676
$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,023professional $525

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
$398.11
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$501.19
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$22,908.68
Median
$44,668.36
Typical High
$61,659.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$933.25
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,047.13
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$588.84
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$660.69
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$776.25
5 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
$190.55
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$79.43
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$60.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 19th of 51

$1,548

$525 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.