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Arm incision to remove a clot from an arm artery

CPT 34101the billing code this page is about

Surgery through an incision in the arm to remove a blood clot or lodged material from the axillary, brachial, innominate, or subclavian artery.

Hospitals typically charge $2,844 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 481 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,659. Most fall between $986 and $7,681 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
481
States
45
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 481 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
$702$1,170$2,844$6,946$11,641

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($702 vs $11,641).

How the prices are spread

$396 – $574: 9 hospitals$396$574 – $831: 26 hospitals$831 – $1,202: 67 hospitals$831$1,202 – $1,741: 70 hospitals$1,741 – $2,520: 37 hospitals$1,741$2,520 – $3,648: 25 hospitals$3,648 – $5,281: 36 hospitals$3,648$5,281 – $7,645: 87 hospitals$7,645 – $11,068: 32 hospitals$7,645$11,068 – $16,022: 46 hospitals$11,068median $2,844price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (435 of 481 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$396$5749
$574$83126
$831$1,20267
$1,202$1,74170
$1,741$2,52037
$2,520$3,64825
$3,648$5,28136
$5,281$7,64587
$7,645$11,06832
$11,068$16,02246

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,685
Median cash price$2,844
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.50×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,844.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,895 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,895Wisconsin: median $3,308 across 25 hospitalsWI$3,308Michigan: median $1,640 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,640New York: median $6,397 across 34 hospitalsNY$6,397Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,068 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,068Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,459 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,459Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $7,681 across 30 hospitalsOH$7,681Pennsylvania: median $1,078 across 22 hospitalsPA$1,078New Jersey: median $5,855 across 31 hospitalsNJ$5,855Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,535 across 46 hospitalsCA$7,535Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $966 across 13 hospitalsOK$966Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,723 across 46 hospitalsTX$6,723Florida: median $11,803 across 20 hospitalsFL$11,803
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,844. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL20$11,803+315%$10,652 – $14,800
Ohio OH30$7,681+170%$1,330 – $20,203
California CA46$7,535+165%$2,227 – $11,446
Texas TX46$6,723+136%$2,967 – $6,723
New York NY34$6,397+125%$844 – $6,605
New Jersey NJ31$5,855+106%$3,986 – $6,366
Wisconsin WI25$3,308+16%$1,261 – $4,073
Illinois IL21$1,895−33%$916 – $2,740
Michigan MI28$1,640−42%$1,205 – $1,926
Iowa IA18$1,459−49%$1,459 – $1,773
Pennsylvania PA22$1,078−62%$362 – $8,895
Oregon OR10$1,068−62%$1,068 – $1,377
Oklahoma OK13$966−66%$966 – $10,475
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $2,844.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care415$3,690$986 – $8,580
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access58$1,521$1,017 – $4,726
Ownership
For-profit39$5,193$916 – $8,580
Government60$1,964$1,042 – $6,397
Non-profit381$2,967$1,005 – $8,394
System affiliation
Part of a system394$3,690$1,017 – $8,928
Independent87$1,658$977 – $4,834

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,967
Median cash price$2,844
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

320 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,926 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,318; most fall between $924 and $8,729.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 320 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
$636$1,005$1,926$7,500$11,446

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($636 vs $11,446).

Of the 345 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 320 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

481 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 528 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted481
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code528

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 Other OR procedures on vessels other than head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Emblc/Thrmbc Ax Brach Innominate Subcla Art.

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, “Arm incision to remove a clot from an arm artery (CPT 34101) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-34101-arm-incision-to-remove-a-clot-from-an-arm-artery