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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Stent to reopen lung arteries, normal anatomy, both sides

CPT 33901the billing code this page is about

Placement of stents through a catheter to restore blood flow in the pulmonary arteries with normal native connections; covers the first vessel treated on each side.

Hospitals typically charge $14,941 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 499 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $15,959. Most fall between $8,875 and $25,477 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
499
States
44
Filings dated
Nov 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 499 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
$5,419$10,351$14,941$22,422$30,379

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5,419 vs $30,379).

How the prices are spread

$1,377 – $1,940: 9 hospitals$1,377$1,940 – $2,732: 5 hospitals$2,732 – $3,849: 4 hospitals$2,732$3,849 – $5,423: 10 hospitals$5,423 – $7,639: 32 hospitals$5,423$7,639 – $10,762: 48 hospitals$10,762 – $15,160: 123 hospitals$10,762$15,160 – $21,357: 91 hospitals$21,357 – $30,087: 97 hospitals$21,357$30,087 – $42,385: 41 hospitals$30,087median $14,941price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (460 of 499 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,377$1,9409
$1,940$2,7325
$2,732$3,8494
$3,849$5,42310
$5,423$7,63932
$7,639$10,76248
$10,762$15,160123
$15,160$21,35791
$21,357$30,08797
$30,087$42,38541

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$14,941
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $14,941.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $27,123 across 16 hospitalsWA$27,123Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $12,050 across 19 hospitalsIL$12,050Wisconsin: median $15,655 across 16 hospitalsWI$15,655Michigan: median $9,873 across 11 hospitalsMI$9,873New York: median $13,420 across 21 hospitalsNY$13,420Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $21,148 across 11 hospitalsOR$21,148Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $7,720 across 26 hospitalsIN$7,720Ohio: median $27,236 across 46 hospitalsOH$27,236Pennsylvania: median $13,639 across 22 hospitalsPA$13,639New Jersey: median $6,839 across 23 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $22,422 across 43 hospitalsCA$22,422Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $12,874 across 14 hospitalsCO$12,874Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $21,288 across 11 hospitalsVA$21,288Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $30,379 across 14 hospitalsNC$30,379South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $18,434 across 21 hospitalsGA$18,434Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $12,404 across 58 hospitalsTX$12,404Florida: median $22,292 across 35 hospitalsFL$22,292
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $14,941. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC14$30,379+103%$14,541 – $30,379
Ohio OH46$27,236+82%$16,452 – $42,385
Washington WA16$27,123+82%$20,607 – $28,196
California CA43$22,422+50%$17,321 – $22,422
Florida FL35$22,292+49%$12,449 – $25,806
Virginia VA11$21,288+42%$13,913 – $21,288
Oregon OR11$21,148+42%$20,463 – $34,247
Georgia GA21$18,434+23%$15,916 – $25,477
Wisconsin WI16$15,655+5%$15,218 – $15,655
Pennsylvania PA22$13,639−9%$11,886 – $24,421
New York NY21$13,420−10%$11,794 – $13,703
Colorado CO14$12,874−14%$10,351 – $22,543
Texas TX58$12,404−17%$11,744 – $12,830
Illinois IL19$12,050−19%$1,244 – $15,400
Michigan MI11$9,873−34%$9,393 – $15,874
Indiana IN26$7,720−48%$6,409 – $9,632
New Jersey NJ23$6,839−54%$4,881 – $12,563
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $14,941.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care448$15,127$9,130 – $24,421
Children’s30$17,721$5,931 – $28,196
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit42$14,541$6,198 – $26,539
Government62$13,921$8,858 – $25,806
Non-profit391$15,400$9,050 – $24,305
System affiliation
Part of a system459$14,941$9,281 – $25,477
Independent40$14,166$2,137 – $24,142

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$30,892
Median cash price$14,941
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

393 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $15,916 and the average of the middle 60% is $16,945; most fall between $9,745 and $27,043.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 393 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
$5,474$11,160$15,916$23,285$31,844

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5,474 vs $31,844).

Of the 424 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 393 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

499 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 541 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted499
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code541

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other vascular catheterization, not heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Perq P-Art Revsc St 1st Nml Native Connj Bi.

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 to reopen lung arteries, normal anatomy, both sides (CPT 33901) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33901-stent-to-reopen-lung-arteries-normal-anatomy-both-sides