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Procedure price report · Other OR heart procedures

Open chest surgery with hand massage of the heart

CPT 32160the billing code this page is about

Emergency surgical opening of the chest so the surgeon can squeeze the heart directly by hand to maintain circulation.

Hospitals typically charge $1,981 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 892 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,317. Most fall between $1,052 and $4,610 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
892
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 892 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
$782$1,203$1,981$3,940$6,551

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($782 vs $6,551).

How the prices are spread

$525 – $693: 26 hospitals$525$693 – $916: 73 hospitals$916 – $1,211: 89 hospitals$916$1,211 – $1,600: 116 hospitals$1,600 – $2,114: 122 hospitals$1,600$2,114 – $2,794: 75 hospitals$2,794 – $3,693: 104 hospitals$2,794$3,693 – $4,880: 77 hospitals$4,880 – $6,449: 74 hospitals$4,880$6,449 – $8,523: 49 hospitals$6,449median $1,981price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (805 of 892 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$525$69326
$693$91673
$916$1,21189
$1,211$1,600116
$1,600$2,114122
$2,114$2,79475
$2,794$3,693104
$3,693$4,88077
$4,880$6,44974
$6,449$8,52349

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,981.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,457 across 38 hospitalsWA$3,457Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,910 across 14 hospitalsMN$1,910Illinois: median $1,525 across 33 hospitalsIL$1,525Wisconsin: median $3,295 across 31 hospitalsWI$3,295Michigan: median $1,420 across 37 hospitalsMI$1,420New York: median $2,540 across 45 hospitalsNY$2,540Massachusetts: median $3,460 across 17 hospitalsMA$3,460Oregon: median $2,184 across 32 hospitalsOR$2,184Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,940 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,940Indiana: median $2,963 across 17 hospitalsIN$2,963Ohio: median $2,938 across 33 hospitalsOH$2,938Pennsylvania: median $1,507 across 30 hospitalsPA$1,507New Jersey: median $5,419 across 17 hospitalsNJ$5,419Connecticut: median $1,652 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,652Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,020 across 55 hospitalsCA$3,020Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,386 across 19 hospitalsCO$1,386Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,280 across 27 hospitalsMO$1,280Kentucky: median $4,417 across 11 hospitalsKY$4,417West Virginia: median $1,492 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,492Virginia: median $1,877 across 39 hospitalsVA$1,877Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,913 across 14 hospitalsTN$1,913North Carolina: median $1,052 across 30 hospitalsNC$1,052South Carolina: median $5,571 across 24 hospitalsSC$5,571Oklahoma: median $1,301 across 21 hospitalsOK$1,301Louisiana: median $1,432 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,432Mississippi: median $495 across 10 hospitalsMS$495Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,054 across 44 hospitalsGA$1,054Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,314 across 73 hospitalsTX$2,314Florida: median $4,144 across 35 hospitalsFL$4,144
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,981. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC24$5,571+181%$3,940 – $8,232
New Jersey NJ17$5,419+174%$4,350 – $6,839
Kentucky KY11$4,417+123%$1,203 – $5,277
Florida FL35$4,144+109%$1,775 – $6,551
Massachusetts MA17$3,460+75%$1,966 – $8,191
Washington WA38$3,457+75%$1,378 – $4,386
Wisconsin WI31$3,295+66%$1,661 – $3,295
California CA55$3,020+52%$937 – $6,527
Indiana IN17$2,963+50%$1,203 – $4,946
Ohio OH33$2,938+48%$1,523 – $4,610
New York NY45$2,540+28%$907 – $5,513
Texas TX73$2,314+17%$1,491 – $3,460
Oregon OR32$2,184+10%$1,661 – $3,429
Iowa IA18$1,940−2%$820 – $3,089
Tennessee TN14$1,913−3%$1,622 – $1,913
Minnesota MN14$1,910−4%$929 – $3,936
Virginia VA39$1,877−5%$525 – $5,277
Connecticut CT11$1,652−17%$1,456 – $4,516
Illinois IL33$1,525−23%$965 – $3,176
Pennsylvania PA30$1,507−24%$949 – $3,386
West Virginia WV10$1,492−25%$1,212 – $14,884
Louisiana LA11$1,432−28%$1,078 – $5,249
Michigan MI37$1,420−28%$1,152 – $5,920
Colorado CO19$1,386−30%$531 – $3,845
Oklahoma OK21$1,301−34%$921 – $1,301
Missouri MO27$1,280−35%$1,064 – $2,557
Georgia GA44$1,054−47%$868 – $2,139
North Carolina NC30$1,052−47%$182 – $1,075
Mississippi MS10$495−75%$385 – $1,649
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,981.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care740$2,019$1,052 – $4,836
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access131$1,875$1,123 – $3,584
Ownership
For-profit73$1,949$868 – $3,995
Government152$1,576$820 – $3,820
Non-profit664$2,088$1,130 – $4,946
System affiliation
Part of a system757$1,996$1,052 – $4,610
Independent135$1,796$1,066 – $3,995

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,274
Median cash price$1,981
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

742 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,975 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,347; most fall between $1,030 and $4,610.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 742 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
$750$1,203$1,975$3,963$6,551

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($750 vs $6,551).

Of the 804 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 742 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

892 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 997 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted892
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded62
Hospitals that filed this code997

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 Other OR heart procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Thoracotomy W/Cardiac Massage.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Open chest surgery with hand massage of the heart (CPT 32160) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-32160-open-chest-surgery-with-hand-massage-of-the-heart