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Procedure price report · Other vascular bypass and shunt, not heart

Second upper body vein joined to the lung artery

CPT 33768the billing code this page is about

Add-on surgery, billed in addition to the main vein-to-lung-artery connection, to attach a second large upper body vein to the lung artery.

Hospitals typically charge $741 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 100 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $874. Most fall between $474 and $1,946 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
100
States
28
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 16, 2026
Prices checked
through September 14, 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 100 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
$309$505$741$1,604$4,350

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($309 vs $4,350).

How the prices are spread

$252 – $342: 11 hospitals$252$342 – $465: 4 hospitals$465 – $632: 14 hospitals$465$632 – $859: 28 hospitals$859 – $1,168: 11 hospitals$859$1,168 – $1,587: 3 hospitals$1,587 – $2,158: 9 hospitals$1,587$2,158 – $2,933: 2 hospitals$2,933 – $3,987: 4 hospitals$2,933$3,987 – $5,419: 6 hospitals$3,987median $741price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (92 of 100 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$252$34211
$342$4654
$465$63214
$632$85928
$859$1,16811
$1,168$1,5873
$1,587$2,1589
$2,158$2,9332
$2,933$3,9874
$3,987$5,4196

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $741.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $297 across 16 hospitalsPA$297New 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $674 across 10 hospitalsOK$674Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $741. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+590%$4,350 – $5,855
Oklahoma OK10$674−9%$674 – $674
Pennsylvania PA16$297−60%$252 – $1,946
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $741.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care88$741$474 – $2,112
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access5fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government9fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit82$741$503 – $2,112
System affiliation
Part of a system79$674$456 – $2,080
Independent21$987$524 – $1,826

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,144
Median cash price$741
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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.

How complete is this

100 of the 3,941 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (3%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 109 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted100
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here7
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code109

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 14, 2026; the figures were computed September 16, 2026 from filings loaded through September 14, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other vascular bypass and shunt, not heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Anastomosis Cavopulmary Sec Suprior Vena Cava.

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, “Second upper body vein joined to the lung artery (CPT 33768) — cash price report,” computed September 16, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33768-second-upper-body-vein-joined-to-the-lung-artery