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

Plaque removal from the abdominal aorta

CPT 0236Tthe billing code this page is about

A catheter-based procedure that shaves or removes plaque from the abdominal section of the aorta, including the x-ray guidance and interpretation.

Hospitals typically charge $11,032 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 378 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $11,840. Most fall between $5,562 and $25,152 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
378
States
42
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 378 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
$3,771$6,373$11,032$20,413$32,173

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,771 vs $32,173).

How the prices are spread

$3,207 – $4,198: 29 hospitals$3,207$4,198 – $5,496: 26 hospitals$5,496 – $7,195: 63 hospitals$5,496$7,195 – $9,420: 42 hospitals$9,420 – $12,332: 29 hospitals$9,420$12,332 – $16,144: 40 hospitals$16,144 – $21,135: 38 hospitals$16,144$21,135 – $27,669: 19 hospitals$27,669 – $36,223: 44 hospitals$27,669$36,223 – $47,421: 13 hospitals$36,223median $11,032price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (343 of 378 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3,207$4,19829
$4,198$5,49626
$5,496$7,19563
$7,195$9,42042
$9,420$12,33229
$12,332$16,14440
$16,144$21,13538
$21,135$27,66919
$27,669$36,22344
$36,223$47,42113

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$11,032
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.94×

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 $11,032.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $9,970 across 15 hospitalsIL$9,970Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $12,150 across 12 hospitalsMI$12,150New York: median $13,703 across 10 hospitalsNY$13,703Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $5,007 across 24 hospitalsIN$5,007Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $21,267 across 21 hospitalsPA$21,267New Jersey: median $3,508 across 12 hospitalsNJ$3,508Connecticut: 2 hospitals 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 14 hospitalsCO$8,072Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 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: 5 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $6,989 across 10 hospitalsLA$6,989Mississippi: 8 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 25 hospitalsGA$7,223Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $7,100 across 58 hospitalsTX$7,100Florida: median $12,871 across 18 hospitalsFL$12,871
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $11,032. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA46$31,091+182%$8,916 – $31,091
Pennsylvania PA21$21,267+93%$11,032 – $47,421
New York NY10$13,703+24%$5,363 – $31,692
Florida FL18$12,871+17%$11,251 – $12,871
Michigan MI12$12,150+10%$6,286 – $14,597
Illinois IL15$9,970−10%$5,460 – $17,205
Colorado CO14$8,072−27%$6,689 – $8,579
Georgia GA25$7,223−35%$5,562 – $20,250
Texas TX58$7,100−36%$6,600 – $39,003
Louisiana LA10$6,989−37%$4,098 – $17,859
Indiana IN24$5,007−55%$3,902 – $7,082
New Jersey NJ12$3,508−68%$3,418 – $18,131
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $11,032.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care352$11,032$5,562 – $23,121
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access20$6,605$5,007 – $28,020
Ownership
For-profit53$12,871$7,100 – $40,988
Government40$8,099$4,026 – $20,250
Non-profit283$11,032$5,532 – $21,954
System affiliation
Part of a system342$10,154$5,474 – $23,121
Independent36$13,518$8,099 – $31,528

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$24,078
Median cash price$11,032
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

295 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $11,930 and the average of the middle 60% is $12,396; most fall between $6,318 and $28,020.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 295 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
$4,383$6,689$11,930$21,267$31,692

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,383 vs $31,692).

Of the 322 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 295 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

378 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 420 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted378
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code420

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 24, 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 Periph Athrc W/Rs&I Abdom Aorta.

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 the abdominal aorta (CPT 0236T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0236t-plaque-removal-from-the-abdominal-aorta