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Right Heart Catheterization for a Heart Defect

New Jersey rates for HCPCS 93593

A thin tube is threaded through a vein into the right side of the heart and the lung arteries in a person with a heart defect present from birth, to measure pressures and oxygen levels directly and to map how blood is traveling. Imaging is used to steer the catheter and pictures are recorded during the study. The findings guide decisions about surgery, medication or the timing of further treatment.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Right Heart Catheterization for a Heart Defect cost?

$10,965

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10,965 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11,749 from a physician practice, and about $10,965 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$11,749$380 to $17,783
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10,965$8,511 to $16,596

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,965 · 10th to 90th $5,754 to $19,953Professionalmedian $11,749 · 10th to 90th $209 to $23,442
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $10,965professional $11,749

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
$5,754.40
Median
$11,220.18
Typical High
$19,952.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$14,125.38
Typical High
$24,547.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,549.93
Median
$11,220.18
Typical High
$12,302.69
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$16,218.10
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$416.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$20,892.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$436.52

Where New Jersey sits

The same service costs 50.1 times more in New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 1st of 51

$10,965

NJ $10,965MD $219

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.