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Procedure price report · Other OR procedures on vessels other than head and neck

Open removal of a clot from an armpit or shoulder vein

CPT 34490the billing code this page is about

Surgery through an incision in the arm to remove a clot from the axillary or subclavian vein.

Hospitals typically charge $3,440 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 320 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,154. Most fall between $1,017 and $5,706 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
320
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 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
$723$1,127$3,440$5,268$9,346

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($723 vs $9,346).

How the prices are spread

$553 – $742: 19 hospitals$553$742 – $994: 18 hospitals$994 – $1,333: 38 hospitals$994$1,333 – $1,787: 28 hospitals$1,787 – $2,396: 16 hospitals$1,787$2,396 – $3,212: 22 hospitals$3,212 – $4,306: 47 hospitals$3,212$4,306 – $5,773: 55 hospitals$5,773 – $7,740: 21 hospitals$5,773$7,740 – $10,377: 28 hospitals$7,740median $3,440price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (292 of 320 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$553$74219
$742$99418
$994$1,33338
$1,333$1,78728
$1,787$2,39616
$2,396$3,21222
$3,212$4,30647
$4,306$5,77355
$5,773$7,74021
$7,740$10,37728

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,226
Median cash price$3,440
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $3,440.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,135 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,135Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,059 across 11 hospitalsMI$1,059New York: median $3,725 across 22 hospitalsNY$3,725Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,507 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,507Nevada: 2 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 $1,558 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,558Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $4,888 across 27 hospitalsPA$4,888New Jersey: median $3,986 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $9,346 across 35 hospitalsCA$9,346Utah: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 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 $996 across 13 hospitalsOK$996Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,729 across 29 hospitalsTX$4,729Florida: median $8,118 across 15 hospitalsFL$8,118
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,440. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$9,346+172%$5,268 – $9,346
Florida FL15$8,118+136%$2,584 – $14,236
Pennsylvania PA27$4,888+42%$366 – $5,802
Texas TX29$4,729+37%$3,831 – $4,729
New Jersey NJ23$3,986+16%$3,484 – $5,419
New York NY22$3,725+8%$1,685 – $3,748
Iowa IA15$1,558−55%$1,558 – $1,558
Oregon OR11$1,507−56%$1,031 – $1,507
Illinois IL13$1,135−67%$868 – $7,137
Michigan MI11$1,059−69%$1,059 – $4,342
Oklahoma OK13$996−71%$996 – $6,417
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $3,440.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care281$3,707$1,031 – $5,802
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$1,507$868 – $4,589
Ownership
For-profit27$4,555$868 – $8,272
Government42$2,290$1,059 – $3,725
Non-profit250$3,707$1,021 – $5,855
System affiliation
Part of a system270$3,725$1,021 – $5,931
Independent50$1,685$943 – $3,875

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,230
Median cash price$3,440
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

222 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,384 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,868; most fall between $996 and $5,802.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 222 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
$688$1,053$2,384$5,268$9,346

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($688 vs $9,346).

Of the 240 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 222 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 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

320 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 351 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted320
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code351

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 23, 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 Thrmbc Dir/W/Cath Axill&Subclavian Vein Arm In.

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 clot from an armpit or shoulder vein (CPT 34490) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-34490-open-removal-of-a-clot-from-an-armpit-or-shoulder-vein