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Procedure price report · Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures

Daily management of vein-to-artery ECMO support, per day

CPT 33949the billing code this page is about

Ongoing monitoring and adjustment of a vein-to-artery external oxygenation circuit; billed once for each day of support.

Hospitals typically charge $2,371 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 681 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,682. Most fall between $653 and $5,831 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
681
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 681 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
$421$919$2,371$4,844$10,638

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($421 vs $10,638).

How the prices are spread

$338 – $504: 47 hospitals$338$504 – $749: 64 hospitals$749 – $1,115: 54 hospitals$749$1,115 – $1,659: 56 hospitals$1,659 – $2,469: 93 hospitals$1,659$2,469 – $3,674: 72 hospitals$3,674 – $5,468: 118 hospitals$3,674$5,468 – $8,136: 50 hospitals$8,136 – $12,107: 42 hospitals$8,136$12,107 – $18,016: 17 hospitals$12,107median $2,371price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (613 of 681 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$338$50447
$504$74964
$749$1,11554
$1,115$1,65956
$1,659$2,46993
$2,469$3,67472
$3,674$5,468118
$5,468$8,13650
$8,136$12,10742
$12,107$18,01617

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,371.

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: 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: median $5,119 across 15 hospitalsWA$5,119Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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: median $2,830 across 14 hospitalsMN$2,830Illinois: median $1,033 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,033Wisconsin: median $1,984 across 28 hospitalsWI$1,984Michigan: median $3,443 across 30 hospitalsMI$3,443New York: median $742 across 25 hospitalsNY$742Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,661 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,661Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $580 across 16 hospitalsIA$580Indiana: median $3,495 across 18 hospitalsIN$3,495Ohio: median $3,817 across 49 hospitalsOH$3,817Pennsylvania: median $2,234 across 25 hospitalsPA$2,234New Jersey: median $4,881 across 15 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 7 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 $2,146 across 49 hospitalsCA$2,146Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,608 across 17 hospitalsCO$2,608Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,362 across 31 hospitalsVA$2,362Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,265 across 16 hospitalsAZ$2,265New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,458 across 25 hospitalsTN$1,458North Carolina: median $10,638 across 19 hospitalsNC$10,638South Carolina: median $4,404 across 13 hospitalsSC$4,404Oklahoma: median $1,259 across 15 hospitalsOK$1,259Louisiana: median $598 across 11 hospitalsLA$598Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,097 across 33 hospitalsGA$2,097Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $2,269 across 60 hospitalsTX$2,269Florida: median $8,646 across 42 hospitalsFL$8,646
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,371. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC19$10,638+349%$971 – $10,638
Florida FL42$8,646+265%$2,561 – $19,083
Washington WA15$5,119+116%$1,086 – $5,388
New Jersey NJ15$4,881+106%$2,880 – $5,741
South Carolina SC13$4,404+86%$4,404 – $4,404
Ohio OH49$3,817+61%$900 – $17,118
Indiana IN18$3,495+47%$1,306 – $5,267
Michigan MI30$3,443+45%$512 – $3,971
Minnesota MN14$2,830+19%$1,786 – $2,830
Colorado CO17$2,608+10%$2,608 – $5,831
Virginia VA31$2,3620%$436 – $4,844
Texas TX60$2,269−4%$1,264 – $4,166
Arizona AZ16$2,265−4%$602 – $8,006
Pennsylvania PA25$2,234−6%$148 – $3,745
California CA49$2,146−10%$588 – $5,406
Georgia GA33$2,097−12%$1,617 – $3,774
Wisconsin WI28$1,984−16%$1,030 – $4,526
Oregon OR11$1,661−30%$417 – $1,661
Tennessee TN25$1,458−39%$413 – $2,100
Oklahoma OK15$1,259−47%$1,095 – $6,941
Illinois IL15$1,033−56%$564 – $1,900
New York NY25$742−69%$464 – $7,650
Louisiana LA11$598−75%$429 – $3,488
Iowa IA16$580−76%$580 – $6,111
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not 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
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $2,371.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care595$2,362$642 – $5,569
Children’s31$7,090$2,918 – $14,499
Critical access52$1,984$872 – $3,998
Ownership
For-profit59$2,269$1,264 – $8,006
Government72$2,018$785 – $10,638
Non-profit547$2,464$615 – $5,388
System affiliation
Part of a system622$2,532$796 – $5,831
Independent59$919$367 – $4,920

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,512
Median cash price$2,371
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

588 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,269 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,537; most fall between $642 and $5,569.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 588 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
$425$872$2,269$4,526$10,638

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($425 vs $10,638).

Of the 625 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 588 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

681 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 739 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted681
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code739

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

Related procedures

Part of the Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ecmo/Ecls Daily Management Ea Day Veno-Arterial.

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, “Daily management of vein-to-artery ECMO support, per day (CPT 33949) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33949-daily-management-of-vein-to-artery-ecmo-support-per-day