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Procedure price report · Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedures

Chest removal of a central ECMO tube, birth through age 5

CPT 33985the billing code this page is about

Removal of heart-lung bypass tubing placed directly into the heart or great vessels, done through a chest incision, in a child from birth through age 5.

Hospitals typically charge $1,147 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 192 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,308. Most fall between $596 and $3,786 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
192
States
35
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 192 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$719$1,147$2,321$6,839

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($296 vs $6,839).

How the prices are spread

$291 – $412: 24 hospitals$291$412 – $584: 6 hospitals$584 – $829: 28 hospitals$584$829 – $1,175: 30 hospitals$1,175 – $1,666: 38 hospitals$1,175$1,666 – $2,362: 10 hospitals$2,362 – $3,348: 5 hospitals$2,362$3,348 – $4,747: 10 hospitals$4,747 – $6,731: 13 hospitals$4,747$6,731 – $9,543: 11 hospitals$6,731median $1,147price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (175 of 192 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$291$41224
$412$5846
$584$82928
$829$1,17530
$1,175$1,66638
$1,666$2,36210
$2,362$3,3485
$3,348$4,74710
$4,747$6,73113
$6,731$9,54311

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,147.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $365 across 15 hospitalsPA$365New Jersey: median $4,881 across 14 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,266 across 31 hospitalsCA$1,266Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,421 across 14 hospitalsVA$1,421Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $296 across 11 hospitalsTN$296North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $827 across 10 hospitalsOK$827Louisiana: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $926 across 21 hospitalsTX$926Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,147. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$4,881+326%$3,786 – $5,855
Virginia VA14$1,421+24%$296 – $7,203
California CA31$1,266+10%$1,266 – $3,576
Texas TX21$926−19%$926 – $1,443
Oklahoma OK10$827−28%$827 – $827
Pennsylvania PA15$365−68%$309 – $1,378
Tennessee TN11$296−74%$296 – $296
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not 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
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $1,147.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care168$1,138$596 – $3,576
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access10fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government14fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit169$1,237$522 – $3,786
System affiliation
Part of a system164$926$572 – $2,730
Independent28$1,706$596 – $9,096

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,976
Median cash price$1,147
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

159 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,199 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,173; most fall between $638 and $2,654.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 159 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$808$1,199$1,616$8,566

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($296 vs $8,566).

Of the 170 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 159 gave a usable cash price; 6 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

192 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 206 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted192
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code206

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 Removal of Central Cannula Birth-5 Yrs.

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, “Chest removal of a central ECMO tube, birth through age 5 (CPT 33985) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-33985-chest-removal-of-a-central-ecmo-tube-birth-through-age-5