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Right Heart Catheterization for a Heart Defect

Utah rates for HCPCS 93594

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?

$6,026

Typical negotiated rate. In Utah, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,026 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $457 from a physician practice, and about $6,918 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 7 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$457$398 to $603
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,918$4,571 to $12,882

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,918 · 10th to 90th $4,169 to $13,490Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $282 to $4,571
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $6,918professional $457

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
$3,388.44
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$13,489.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$12,882.50
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$19,952.62
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,288.25
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$9,549.93
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$602.56
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,011.87
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$5,011.87
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,071.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$12,302.69
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$549.54

Where Utah sits

The same service costs 34.7 times more in South Carolina 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.

Utah· 20th of 51

$6,026

SC $11,749MD $339

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.