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Procedure price report · Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures

Placing ECMO life-support tubes in a vessel, age 6 and older

CPT 33952the billing code this page is about

Insertion of heart-lung bypass (ECMO) cannulas into an arm, leg, or neck blood vessel through the skin with a needle in a patient age 6 or older.

Hospitals typically charge $2,540 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 900 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,174. Most fall between $936 and $7,606 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
900
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 900 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
$520$1,057$2,540$6,452$13,000

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($520 vs $13,000).

How the prices are spread

$454 – $680: 76 hospitals$454$680 – $1,019: 73 hospitals$1,019 – $1,525: 123 hospitals$1,019$1,525 – $2,283: 104 hospitals$2,283 – $3,417: 115 hospitals$2,283$3,417 – $5,116: 91 hospitals$5,116 – $7,659: 105 hospitals$5,116$7,659 – $11,466: 56 hospitals$11,466 – $17,165: 47 hospitals$11,466$17,165 – $25,697: 28 hospitals$17,165median $2,540price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (818 of 900 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$454$68076
$680$1,01973
$1,019$1,525123
$1,525$2,283104
$2,283$3,417115
$3,417$5,11691
$5,116$7,659105
$7,659$11,46656
$11,466$17,16547
$17,165$25,69728

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,540.

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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,969 across 27 hospitalsWA$2,969Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,849 across 26 hospitalsMN$2,849Illinois: median $1,737 across 37 hospitalsIL$1,737Wisconsin: median $2,157 across 34 hospitalsWI$2,157Michigan: median $936 across 48 hospitalsMI$936New York: median $1,261 across 29 hospitalsNY$1,261Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $11,792 across 16 hospitalsOR$11,792Nevada: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,050 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,050Indiana: median $2,423 across 27 hospitalsIN$2,423Ohio: median $7,606 across 70 hospitalsOH$7,606Pennsylvania: median $1,631 across 48 hospitalsPA$1,631New Jersey: median $4,350 across 22 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: median $2,627 across 12 hospitalsCT$2,627Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,968 across 75 hospitalsCA$3,968Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,790 across 11 hospitalsCO$1,790Nebraska: median $1,635 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,635Missouri: median $1,807 across 17 hospitalsMO$1,807Kentucky: median $1,168 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,168West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $771 across 28 hospitalsVA$771Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,448 across 18 hospitalsAZ$3,448New 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $485 across 23 hospitalsTN$485North Carolina: median $6,452 across 18 hospitalsNC$6,452South Carolina: median $4,358 across 16 hospitalsSC$4,358Oklahoma: median $2,977 across 20 hospitalsOK$2,977Louisiana: median $1,079 across 12 hospitalsLA$1,079Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,957 across 44 hospitalsGA$2,957Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,200 across 72 hospitalsTX$2,200Florida: median $3,779 across 31 hospitalsFL$3,779
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,540. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR16$11,792+364%$761 – $15,902
Ohio OH70$7,606+199%$1,737 – $26,989
North Carolina NC18$6,452+154%$2,890 – $6,453
South Carolina SC16$4,358+72%$4,358 – $4,358
New Jersey NJ22$4,350+71%$1,352 – $5,855
California CA75$3,968+56%$1,053 – $19,063
Florida FL31$3,779+49%$2,172 – $12,327
Arizona AZ18$3,448+36%$581 – $13,000
Oklahoma OK20$2,977+17%$1,949 – $5,890
Washington WA27$2,969+17%$2,046 – $4,313
Georgia GA44$2,957+16%$2,420 – $8,167
Minnesota MN26$2,849+12%$1,057 – $6,909
Connecticut CT12$2,627+3%$2,215 – $6,800
Indiana IN27$2,423−5%$793 – $3,776
Texas TX72$2,200−13%$1,164 – $9,537
Wisconsin WI34$2,157−15%$2,157 – $6,816
Missouri MO17$1,807−29%$673 – $4,929
Colorado CO11$1,790−30%$973 – $1,790
Illinois IL37$1,737−32%$1,050 – $5,518
Nebraska NE12$1,635−36%$644 – $2,434
Pennsylvania PA48$1,631−36%$742 – $5,337
New York NY29$1,261−50%$627 – $9,590
Kentucky KY11$1,168−54%$701 – $1,762
Louisiana LA12$1,079−58%$687 – $5,713
Iowa IA18$1,050−59%$1,050 – $6,111
Michigan MI48$936−63%$520 – $2,656
Virginia VA28$771−70%$463 – $5,250
Tennessee TN23$485−81%$463 – $4,541
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,540.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care797$2,568$937 – $7,606
Children’s26$4,009$1,472 – $22,955
Critical access72$2,157$701 – $6,816
Ownership
For-profit68$2,913$1,164 – $10,000
Government81$2,506$781 – $6,452
Non-profit746$2,423$954 – $7,594
System affiliation
Part of a system822$2,646$1,020 – $7,606
Independent78$1,580$658 – $7,352

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,247
Median cash price$2,540
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

767 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,669 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,392; most fall between $998 and $8,167.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 767 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
$627$1,071$2,669$6,909$15,902

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($627 vs $15,902).

Of the 831 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 767 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 44 a list price only.

How complete is this

900 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 981 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted900
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code981

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 Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ecmo/Ecls Insj of Prph Cannula 6 Yrs&Older Perq.

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, “Placing ECMO life-support tubes in a vessel, age 6 and older (CPT 33952) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33952-placing-ecmo-life-support-tubes-in-a-vessel-age-6-and-older