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Procedure price report · Aortic resection, replacement or anastomosis

Aortic arch replacement with graft using deep cooling

CPT 33871the billing code this page is about

Open chest surgery to replace the curved top section of the aorta with a fabric tube, using the heart-lung bypass machine with the body cooled deeply and circulation stopped during part of the repair.

Hospitals typically charge $5,953 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 183 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,371. Most fall between $4,169 and $12,504 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
183
States
32
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 183 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
$3,600$4,585$5,953$9,554$16,349

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,600 vs $16,349).

How the prices are spread

$1,417 – $1,855: 3 hospitals$1,417$1,855 – $2,430: 1 hospitals$2,430 – $3,182: 2 hospitals$2,430$3,182 – $4,166: 21 hospitals$4,166 – $5,456: 45 hospitals$4,166$5,456 – $7,144: 35 hospitals$7,144 – $9,355: 20 hospitals$7,144$9,355 – $12,250: 10 hospitals$12,250 – $16,042: 11 hospitals$12,250$16,042 – $21,007: 17 hospitals$16,042median $5,953price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (165 of 183 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,417$1,8553
$1,855$2,4301
$2,430$3,1822
$3,182$4,16621
$4,166$5,45645
$5,456$7,14435
$7,144$9,35520
$9,355$12,25010
$12,250$16,04211
$16,042$21,00717

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $5,953.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $16,349 across 17 hospitalsWI$16,349Michigan: median $4,169 across 24 hospitalsMI$4,169New York: median $4,607 across 11 hospitalsNY$4,607Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 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 $7,971 across 14 hospitalsIA$7,971Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,540 across 16 hospitalsPA$1,540New Jersey: median $5,339 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,121 across 24 hospitalsCA$6,121Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 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: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $5,273 across 10 hospitalsOK$5,273Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,953. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI17$16,349+175%$16,349 – $23,603
Iowa IA14$7,971+34%$7,971 – $7,971
California CA24$6,121+3%$6,121 – $6,121
New Jersey NJ13$5,339−10%$4,350 – $6,311
Oklahoma OK10$5,273−11%$5,273 – $5,273
New York NY11$4,607−23%$4,607 – $9,450
Michigan MI24$4,169−30%$3,770 – $4,638
Pennsylvania PA16$1,540−74%$1,207 – $8,801
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not 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
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $5,953.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care158$5,812$4,169 – $9,450
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access21$16,349$3,838 – $16,349
Ownership
For-profit7fewer than 20 hospitals
Government11fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit165$6,121$3,986 – $13,182
System affiliation
Part of a system161$5,895$4,350 – $13,464
Independent22$5,953$3,519 – $9,946

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,964
Median cash price$5,953
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.

The same procedure, inpatient

126 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,121 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,564; most fall between $4,638 and $10,449.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 126 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
$3,255$4,990$6,121$9,023$16,349

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,255 vs $16,349).

Of the 140 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 126 gave a usable cash price; 11 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

183 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 213 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted183
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code213

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 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 Aortic resection, replacement or anastomosis family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Transvrs a-Arch Grf W/Card Byp Prfd Hypothermia.

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, “Aortic arch replacement with graft using deep cooling (CPT 33871) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33871-aortic-arch-replacement-with-graft-using-deep-cooling