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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Tennessee 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?

$2,309

Typical total for the visit. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,309 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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 5 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 $646
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$631 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $195 to $10,965Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $372 to $977
$100.0$1.0K$10.0Kfacility $1,820professional $490

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
$602.56
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$407.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,709.64
Median
$14,125.38
Typical High
$23,442.29
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$870.96
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$2,398.83
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$933.25

Where Tennessee 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 feeTennessee $2,309 · 33rd 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.