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Catheter stent to create a heart shunt, first shunt

CPT 33745the billing code this page is about

A stent is placed through a catheter inside the heart to create or keep open a passage for blood flow in a congenital heart defect; this code covers the first such shunt in the session.

Hospitals typically charge $7,684 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 327 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $10,115. Most fall between $2,380 and $31,765 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
327
States
43
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 327 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
$1,424$2,864$7,684$25,608$44,408

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,424 vs $44,408).

How the prices are spread

$877 – $1,298: 11 hospitals$877$1,298 – $1,922: 25 hospitals$1,922 – $2,846: 29 hospitals$1,922$2,846 – $4,214: 33 hospitals$4,214 – $6,240: 40 hospitals$4,214$6,240 – $9,239: 45 hospitals$9,239 – $13,680: 13 hospitals$9,239$13,680 – $20,255: 10 hospitals$20,255 – $29,992: 33 hospitals$20,255$29,992 – $44,408: 56 hospitals$29,992median $7,684price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (295 of 327 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$877$1,29811
$1,298$1,92225
$1,922$2,84629
$2,846$4,21433
$4,214$6,24040
$6,240$9,23945
$9,239$13,68013
$13,680$20,25510
$20,255$29,99233
$29,992$44,40856

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $7,684.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $5,775 across 12 hospitalsIL$5,775Wisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $36,087 across 17 hospitalsIN$36,087Ohio: median $2,734 across 10 hospitalsOH$2,734Pennsylvania: median $2,289 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,289New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $16,989 across 48 hospitalsCA$16,989Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $31,879 across 13 hospitalsNC$31,879South Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $23,272 across 17 hospitalsGA$23,272Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,684 across 51 hospitalsTX$7,684Florida: median $25,608 across 23 hospitalsFL$25,608
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $7,684. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN17$36,087+370%$7,990 – $47,870
North Carolina NC13$31,879+315%$9,694 – $31,879
Florida FL23$25,608+233%$2,380 – $30,733
Georgia GA17$23,272+203%$23,272 – $37,485
California CA48$16,989+121%$5,153 – $44,408
Texas TX51$7,6840%$2,864 – $8,069
Illinois IL12$5,775−25%$2,643 – $8,180
New Jersey NJ13$5,110−34%$3,986 – $5,855
Ohio OH10$2,734−64%$1,656 – $5,200
Pennsylvania PA19$2,289−70%$531 – $7,774
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $7,684.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care274$6,311$2,380 – $30,733
Children’s36$24,607$2,734 – $32,789
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit29$8,069$3,702 – $40,000
Government38$11,759$3,149 – $31,879
Non-profit260$6,141$2,348 – $30,229
System affiliation
Part of a system301$7,400$2,568 – $31,294
Independent26$8,119$1,656 – $32,506

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$12,807
Median cash price$7,684
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

256 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $7,684 and the average of the middle 60% is $9,794; most fall between $2,568 and $29,327.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 256 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
$1,396$2,864$7,684$25,304$44,408

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,396 vs $44,408).

Of the 276 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 256 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

327 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 368 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted327
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code368

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 Tis Crtj St Congenital Cardiac Anomal 1st Shunt.

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, “Catheter stent to create a heart shunt, first shunt (CPT 33745) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33745-catheter-stent-to-create-a-heart-shunt-first-shunt