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Right Heart Catheterization for a Heart Defect

New Mexico 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?

$1,660

Typical negotiated rate. In New Mexico, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,660 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $123 from a physician practice, and about $14,791 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$123$123 to $251
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$14,791$7,413 to $21,380

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $14,791 · 10th to 90th $3,311 to $25,119Professionalmedian $123 · 10th to 90th $123 to $331
$100$1K$10Kfacility $14,791professional $123

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
$2,089.30
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$14,791.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$123.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$16,218.10
Typical High
$26,302.68
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$85.11
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$23,988.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$398.11

Where New Mexico 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 Mexico· 36th of 51

$1,660

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.