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Stent placed through the chest wall for a heart defect

CPT 33621the billing code this page is about

Placement of a catheter directly through the chest wall into the heart to deliver a stent for a congenital heart defect, including removing the catheter and closing the site.

Hospitals typically charge $1,999 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 158 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,231. Most fall between $937 and $4,204 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
158
States
31
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 158 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
$586$1,101$1,999$3,612$5,861

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($586 vs $5,861).

How the prices are spread

$567 – $781: 23 hospitals$567$781 – $1,075: 10 hospitals$1,075 – $1,481: 14 hospitals$1,075$1,481 – $2,040: 26 hospitals$2,040 – $2,809: 22 hospitals$2,040$2,809 – $3,869: 24 hospitals$3,869 – $5,328: 13 hospitals$3,869$5,328 – $7,338: 10 hospitals$7,338 – $10,106: 0 hospitals$7,338$10,106 – $13,918: 3 hospitals$10,106median $1,999price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (145 of 158 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$567$78123
$781$1,07510
$1,075$1,48114
$1,481$2,04026
$2,040$2,80922
$2,809$3,86924
$3,869$5,32813
$5,328$7,33810
$7,338$10,1060
$10,106$13,9183

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,999.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,268 across 13 hospitalsIA$2,268Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $593 across 10 hospitalsPA$593New Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,612 across 22 hospitalsCA$3,612Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,511 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,511Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $586 across 17 hospitalsFL$586
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,999. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+156%$4,350 – $5,855
California CA22$3,612+81%$3,612 – $3,612
Iowa IA13$2,268+13%$2,268 – $2,268
Oklahoma OK10$1,511−24%$1,511 – $1,511
Pennsylvania PA10$593−70%$490 – $670
Florida FL17$586−71%$586 – $33,479
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $1,999.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care137$2,268$834 – $3,986
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access8fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government15fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit132$2,268$1,019 – $4,207
System affiliation
Part of a system135$2,268$734 – $4,204
Independent23$1,951$940 – $2,945

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,580
Median cash price$1,999
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

109 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,856 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,209; most fall between $974 and $3,612.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 109 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
$586$1,136$1,856$3,612$4,942

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($586 vs $4,942).

Of the 118 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 109 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

158 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 180 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted158
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here11
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code180

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 5, 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 heart procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Transthoracic Catheter Insertion for Stent Plmt.

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, “Stent placed through the chest wall for a heart defect (CPT 33621) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33621-stent-placed-through-the-chest-wall-for-a-heart-defect