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Procedure price report · Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)

Mechanical removal of a clot from a heart artery

CPT 92973the billing code this page is about

Add-on service in which a catheter device physically extracts a blood clot from a coronary artery during another heart artery procedure in the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $3,422 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,640 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,748. Most fall between $1,295 and $7,332 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,640
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,640 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$538$1,647$3,422$6,236$10,352

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($538 vs $10,352).

How the prices are spread

$322 – $476: 62 hospitals$322$476 – $705: 68 hospitals$705 – $1,042: 73 hospitals$705$1,042 – $1,542: 109 hospitals$1,542 – $2,281: 151 hospitals$1,542$2,281 – $3,374: 259 hospitals$3,374 – $4,991: 249 hospitals$3,374$4,991 – $7,383: 260 hospitals$7,383 – $10,921: 178 hospitals$7,383$10,921 – $16,156: 68 hospitals$10,921median $3,422price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,477 of 1,640 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$322$47662
$476$70568
$705$1,04273
$1,042$1,542109
$1,542$2,281151
$2,281$3,374259
$3,374$4,991249
$4,991$7,383260
$7,383$10,921178
$10,921$16,15668

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,422.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,357 across 37 hospitalsWA$4,357Idaho: median $11,819 across 11 hospitalsID$11,819Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,742 across 25 hospitalsMN$2,742Illinois: median $3,209 across 69 hospitalsIL$3,209Wisconsin: median $955 across 49 hospitalsWI$955Michigan: median $1,372 across 57 hospitalsMI$1,372New York: median $4,050 across 39 hospitalsNY$4,050Massachusetts: median $2,624 across 25 hospitalsMA$2,624Oregon: median $3,543 across 31 hospitalsOR$3,543Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $4,260 across 23 hospitalsIA$4,260Indiana: median $1,983 across 50 hospitalsIN$1,983Ohio: median $3,209 across 84 hospitalsOH$3,209Pennsylvania: median $3,083 across 62 hospitalsPA$3,083New Jersey: median $1,947 across 38 hospitalsNJ$1,947Connecticut: median $4,548 across 13 hospitalsCT$4,548Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,446 across 138 hospitalsCA$6,446Utah: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,292 across 32 hospitalsCO$2,292Nebraska: median $3,166 across 15 hospitalsNE$3,166Missouri: median $3,961 across 43 hospitalsMO$3,961Kentucky: median $4,353 across 31 hospitalsKY$4,353West Virginia: median $3,553 across 15 hospitalsWV$3,553Virginia: median $3,549 across 40 hospitalsVA$3,549Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,709 across 35 hospitalsAZ$2,709New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,983 across 20 hospitalsKS$3,983Arkansas: median $1,256 across 15 hospitalsAR$1,256Tennessee: median $1,524 across 39 hospitalsTN$1,524North Carolina: median $2,528 across 47 hospitalsNC$2,528South Carolina: median $7,963 across 33 hospitalsSC$7,963Oklahoma: median $2,722 across 33 hospitalsOK$2,722Louisiana: median $2,170 across 32 hospitalsLA$2,170Mississippi: median $2,690 across 22 hospitalsMS$2,690Alabama: median $5,019 across 21 hospitalsAL$5,019Georgia: median $3,029 across 66 hospitalsGA$3,029Hawaii: median $1,115 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,115Texas: median $5,346 across 168 hospitalsTX$5,346Florida: median $5,474 across 91 hospitalsFL$5,474
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,422. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$11,819+245%$5,193 – $16,474
South Carolina SC33$7,963+133%$4,107 – $10,206
California CA138$6,446+88%$2,975 – $11,567
Florida FL91$5,474+60%$2,511 – $9,754
Texas TX168$5,346+56%$2,134 – $12,096
Alabama AL21$5,019+47%$1,869 – $6,395
Connecticut CT13$4,548+33%$1,976 – $5,876
Washington WA37$4,357+27%$2,167 – $8,883
Kentucky KY31$4,353+27%$964 – $20,270
Iowa IA23$4,260+24%$1,799 – $5,240
New York NY39$4,050+18%$674 – $10,926
Kansas KS20$3,983+16%$1,952 – $5,212
Missouri MO43$3,961+16%$1,104 – $6,652
West Virginia WV15$3,553+4%$510 – $5,528
Virginia VA40$3,549+4%$1,733 – $5,106
Oregon OR31$3,543+4%$522 – $6,811
Illinois IL69$3,209−6%$1,104 – $4,515
Ohio OH84$3,209−6%$2,484 – $4,490
Nebraska NE15$3,166−7%$353 – $4,512
Pennsylvania PA62$3,083−10%$742 – $5,448
Georgia GA66$3,029−11%$2,139 – $7,210
Minnesota MN25$2,742−20%$2,259 – $3,891
Oklahoma OK33$2,722−20%$281 – $4,583
Arizona AZ35$2,709−21%$1,956 – $9,295
Mississippi MS22$2,690−21%$1,973 – $6,588
Massachusetts MA25$2,624−23%$465 – $7,570
North Carolina NC47$2,528−26%$1,300 – $5,182
Colorado CO32$2,292−33%$1,655 – $5,123
Louisiana LA32$2,170−37%$653 – $4,890
Indiana IN50$1,983−42%$1,122 – $5,099
New Jersey NJ38$1,947−43%$777 – $15,133
Tennessee TN39$1,524−55%$637 – $4,540
Michigan MI57$1,372−60%$688 – $4,964
Arkansas AR15$1,256−63%$389 – $2,124
Hawaii HI10$1,115−67%$170 – $5,063
Wisconsin WI49$955−72%$871 – $4,460
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $3,422.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,497$3,549$1,415 – $7,570
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access117$2,440$459 – $5,215
Ownership
For-profit217$5,063$2,139 – $10,432
Government201$3,001$625 – $5,559
Non-profit1,214$3,344$1,115 – $6,847
System affiliation
Part of a system1,434$3,483$1,415 – $7,245
Independent206$3,230$524 – $7,708

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,533
Median cash price$3,422
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,285 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,720 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,946; most fall between $1,446 and $7,402.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,285 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$625$1,784$3,720$6,299$10,314

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($625 vs $10,314).

Of the 1,413 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,285 gave a usable cash price; 62 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,640 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,843 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,640
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here95
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded107
Hospitals that filed this code1,843

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Prq Transluminal Coronary Mechanicl Thrombectomy.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Mechanical removal of a clot from a heart artery (CPT 92973) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92973-mechanical-removal-of-a-clot-from-a-heart-artery