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Removal of ECMO cannula through the skin, age 6 and older

CPT 33966the billing code this page is about

Removal of a tube from an arm or leg blood vessel used for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support, done through the skin without a surgical incision, in a patient 6 years or older.

Hospitals typically charge $1,170 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 566 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,563. Most fall between $489 and $4,084 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
566
States
47
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 566 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
$296$584$1,170$2,975$6,118

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($296 vs $6,118).

How the prices are spread

$239 – $351: 38 hospitals$239$351 – $515: 63 hospitals$515 – $755: 57 hospitals$515$755 – $1,108: 58 hospitals$1,108 – $1,625: 74 hospitals$1,108$1,625 – $2,385: 76 hospitals$2,385 – $3,499: 40 hospitals$2,385$3,499 – $5,135: 47 hospitals$5,135 – $7,534: 39 hospitals$5,135$7,534 – $11,054: 24 hospitals$7,534median $1,170price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (516 of 566 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$239$35138
$351$51563
$515$75557
$755$1,10858
$1,108$1,62574
$1,625$2,38576
$2,385$3,49940
$3,499$5,13547
$5,135$7,53439
$7,534$11,05424

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,170.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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: median $1,248 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,248Idaho: 3 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 $136 across 13 hospitalsMN$136Illinois: median $1,044 across 19 hospitalsIL$1,044Wisconsin: median $1,138 across 33 hospitalsWI$1,138Michigan: median $520 across 12 hospitalsMI$520New York: median $738 across 26 hospitalsNY$738Massachusetts: 1 hospital 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 $582 across 15 hospitalsIA$582Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,975 across 30 hospitalsOH$2,975Pennsylvania: median $2,948 across 23 hospitalsPA$2,948New Jersey: median $4,350 across 21 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $937 across 52 hospitalsCA$937Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,712 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,712Missouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 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 $1,362 across 18 hospitalsVA$1,362Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $296 across 15 hospitalsTN$296North Carolina: median $2,224 across 17 hospitalsNC$2,224South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $449 across 15 hospitalsOK$449Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,220 across 42 hospitalsGA$2,220Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,899 across 54 hospitalsTX$1,899Florida: median $1,400 across 32 hospitalsFL$1,400
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,170. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ21$4,350+272%$730 – $5,741
Ohio OH30$2,975+154%$937 – $11,054
Pennsylvania PA23$2,948+152%$83 – $4,240
North Carolina NC17$2,224+90%$1,051 – $2,224
Georgia GA42$2,220+90%$1,084 – $4,084
Texas TX54$1,899+62%$1,058 – $1,958
Nebraska NE10$1,712+46%$426 – $1,712
Oregon OR11$1,661+42%$403 – $1,661
Florida FL32$1,400+20%$489 – $7,805
Virginia VA18$1,362+16%$296 – $1,802
Washington WA11$1,248+7%$966 – $5,119
Wisconsin WI33$1,138−3%$476 – $1,699
Illinois IL19$1,044−11%$590 – $1,279
California CA52$937−20%$594 – $6,032
New York NY26$738−37%$491 – $8,550
Iowa IA15$582−50%$582 – $4,060
Michigan MI12$520−56%$329 – $1,138
Oklahoma OK15$449−62%$449 – $1,824
Tennessee TN15$296−75%$291 – $417
Minnesota MN13$136−88%$128 – $2,498
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not 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
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not 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
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 $1,170.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care506$1,230$489 – $4,240
Children’s20$2,174$443 – $7,805
Critical access39$1,138$375 – $1,504
Ownership
For-profit45$1,285$738 – $3,856
Government58$2,156$678 – $4,084
Non-profit462$1,138$449 – $4,240
System affiliation
Part of a system515$1,213$489 – $4,084
Independent51$937$364 – $5,660

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,976
Median cash price$1,170
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

491 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,138 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,537; most fall between $476 and $4,084.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 491 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
$296$523$1,138$2,975$6,620

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($296 vs $6,620).

Of the 525 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 491 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

566 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 624 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted566
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code624

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 Rmvl of Prph Cannula Prq 6 Yrs & Older.

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, “Removal of ECMO cannula through the skin, age 6 and older (CPT 33966) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33966-removal-of-ecmo-cannula-through-the-skin-age-6-and-older