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Procedure price report · Other OR procedures on vessels other than head and neck

Plaque removal from a kidney artery, each artery

CPT 0234Tthe billing code this page is about

A catheter-based procedure that shaves or removes plaque from a renal artery, including the x-ray guidance and report; billed once for each kidney artery treated.

Hospitals typically charge $10,003 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 428 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $11,309. Most fall between $5,709 and $23,121 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
428
States
40
Filings dated
Feb 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 428 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
$4,026$6,689$10,003$19,211$31,692

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,026 vs $31,692).

How the prices are spread

$3,219 – $4,209: 25 hospitals$3,219$4,209 – $5,504: 31 hospitals$5,504 – $7,197: 52 hospitals$5,504$7,197 – $9,411: 80 hospitals$9,411 – $12,307: 37 hospitals$9,411$12,307 – $16,093: 57 hospitals$16,093 – $21,045: 24 hospitals$16,093$21,045 – $27,520: 30 hospitals$27,520 – $35,986: 38 hospitals$27,520$35,986 – $47,058: 12 hospitals$35,986median $10,003price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (386 of 428 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3,219$4,20925
$4,209$5,50431
$5,504$7,19752
$7,197$9,41180
$9,411$12,30737
$12,307$16,09357
$16,093$21,04524
$21,045$27,52030
$27,520$35,98638
$35,986$47,05812

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$10,003
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.85×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $10,003.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $13,688 across 23 hospitalsIL$13,688Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $6,689 across 20 hospitalsMI$6,689New York: median $13,703 across 14 hospitalsNY$13,703Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $7,830 across 25 hospitalsIN$7,830Ohio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $21,267 across 20 hospitalsPA$21,267New Jersey: median $5,038 across 15 hospitalsNJ$5,038Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $31,091 across 46 hospitalsCA$31,091Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $8,072 across 17 hospitalsCO$8,072Nebraska: median $6,786 across 10 hospitalsNE$6,786Missouri: median $14,651 across 12 hospitalsMO$14,651Kentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $7,475 across 23 hospitalsNC$7,475South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $5,562 across 11 hospitalsLA$5,562Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $7,223 across 27 hospitalsGA$7,223Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $8,305 across 46 hospitalsTX$8,305Florida: median $13,354 across 18 hospitalsFL$13,354
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $10,003. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA46$31,091+211%$8,916 – $31,091
Pennsylvania PA20$21,267+113%$11,032 – $47,421
Missouri MO12$14,651+46%$11,083 – $26,561
New York NY14$13,703+37%$5,363 – $31,692
Illinois IL23$13,688+37%$8,668 – $24,826
Florida FL18$13,354+33%$11,679 – $13,354
Texas TX46$8,305−17%$6,286 – $47,058
Colorado CO17$8,072−19%$6,689 – $16,242
Indiana IN25$7,830−22%$5,949 – $10,757
North Carolina NC23$7,475−25%$6,819 – $14,057
Georgia GA27$7,223−28%$7,223 – $20,250
Nebraska NE10$6,786−32%$6,786 – $9,041
Michigan MI20$6,689−33%$6,444 – $10,584
Louisiana LA11$5,562−44%$4,098 – $10,993
New Jersey NJ15$5,038−50%$4,856 – $18,131
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $10,003.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care400$10,003$5,709 – $23,500
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access22$8,305$5,667 – $12,543
Ownership
For-profit53$12,209$7,083 – $39,003
Government56$7,475$4,383 – $17,556
Non-profit317$10,003$5,929 – $22,503
System affiliation
Part of a system378$8,832$5,562 – $21,954
Independent50$14,423$8,092 – $31,528

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$22,256
Median cash price$10,003
Cash as a share of list, median hospital50%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 50%. 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

319 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $9,953 and the average of the middle 60% is $11,487; most fall between $6,286 and $22,503.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 319 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
$4,297$6,786$9,953$19,808$31,091

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,297 vs $31,091).

Of the 351 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 319 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

428 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 479 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted428
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code479

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR procedures on vessels other than head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Trluml Peripheral Atherectomy Renal Artery Ea.

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, “Plaque removal from a kidney artery, each artery (CPT 0234T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0234t-plaque-removal-from-a-kidney-artery-each-artery