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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Texas 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?

$2,078

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,078 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $380 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,698 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$380$288 to $2,399
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,698$513 to $4,169

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $182 to $13,490Professionalmedian $380 · 10th to 90th $58 to $2,692
$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,698professional $380

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
$870.96
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$12,589.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$4,897.79
BCBS Texas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,311.31
BCBS Texas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$630.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12,022.64
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$21,877.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$741.31
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,691.53
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$13,182.57
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$758.58
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$363.08
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$17,378.01
Typical High
$46,773.51
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$707.95
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$323.59
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
$123.03
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$60.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$40.74
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$199.53
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$79.43
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$295.12
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$60.26
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$39.81

Where Texas 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

Texas· 14th of 51

$2,078

$380 physician + $1,698 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.