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Procedure price report · Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures

Open removal of a limb ECMO tube, age 6 or older

CPT 33984the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal, through an incision, of the tubing placed in an arm, leg, or neck vessel for heart-lung bypass support in a patient age 6 or older.

Hospitals typically charge $1,362 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 343 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,486. Most fall between $482 and $3,178 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
343
States
39
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 343 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$592$1,362$2,601$6,057

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($296 vs $6,057).

How the prices are spread

$269 – $383: 30 hospitals$269$383 – $547: 32 hospitals$547 – $782: 48 hospitals$547$782 – $1,116: 35 hospitals$1,116 – $1,593: 20 hospitals$1,116$1,593 – $2,275: 46 hospitals$2,275 – $3,248: 47 hospitals$2,275$3,248 – $4,638: 19 hospitals$4,638 – $6,622: 20 hospitals$4,638$6,622 – $9,456: 12 hospitals$6,622median $1,362price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (309 of 343 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$269$38330
$383$54732
$547$78248
$782$1,11635
$1,116$1,59320
$1,593$2,27546
$2,275$3,24847
$3,248$4,63819
$4,638$6,62220
$6,622$9,45612

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,362.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $768 across 20 hospitalsNY$768Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals 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: median $694 across 14 hospitalsIA$694Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,270 across 16 hospitalsOH$1,270Pennsylvania: median $203 across 15 hospitalsPA$203New Jersey: median $4,350 across 19 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $700 across 36 hospitalsCA$700Utah: median $2,081 across 22 hospitalsUT$2,081Colorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $296 across 11 hospitalsTN$296North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $460 across 15 hospitalsOK$460Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $3,673 across 15 hospitalsGA$3,673Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,625 across 46 hospitalsTX$1,625Florida: median $7,328 across 10 hospitalsFL$7,328
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,362. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL10$7,328+438%$1,000 – $15,889
New Jersey NJ19$4,350+219%$584 – $5,741
Georgia GA15$3,673+170%$2,420 – $3,673
Utah UT22$2,081+53%$2,081 – $2,601
Texas TX46$1,625+19%$1,058 – $1,880
Virginia VA18$1,3620%$296 – $1,802
Ohio OH16$1,270−7%$640 – $2,975
New York NY20$768−44%$470 – $2,479
California CA36$700−49%$700 – $4,452
Iowa IA14$694−49%$694 – $6,111
Oklahoma OK15$460−66%$460 – $1,824
Tennessee TN11$296−78%$296 – $296
Pennsylvania PA15$203−85%$172 – $2,781
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $1,362.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care308$1,362$506 – $3,673
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access23$2,081$344 – $2,375
Ownership
For-profit26$1,880$766 – $3,673
Government28$1,000$317 – $4,000
Non-profit289$1,362$482 – $2,975
System affiliation
Part of a system303$1,469$506 – $3,178
Independent40$879$437 – $2,709

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,184
Median cash price$1,362
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

291 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,344 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,464; most fall between $506 and $2,975.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 291 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
$330$602$1,344$2,601$6,620

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($330 vs $6,620).

Of the 315 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 291 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 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

343 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 381 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted343
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code381

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 Prph Cannula Open 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, “Open removal of a limb ECMO tube, age 6 or older (CPT 33984) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33984-open-removal-of-a-limb-ecmo-tube-age-6-or-older