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Extra Plug for a Leak Around a Heart Valve

Virginia 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?

$4,121

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,121 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$490$398 to $741
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$813 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $447 to $15,136Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $355 to $5,248
$200.0$1.0K$5.0K$20.0Kfacility $3,631professional $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
$812.83
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$15,488.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$7,079.46
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$660.69
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$16,218.10
Typical High
$46,773.51
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,000.00
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$478.63
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$758.58
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$10,000.00
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$10,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$870.96

Where Virginia 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 feeVirginia $4,121 · 20th 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.