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Repair of a leg blood vessel using a vein graft

CPT 35256the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to repair a damaged blood vessel in the leg by replacing or patching the injured segment with a piece of the patient's own vein.

Hospitals typically charge $3,850 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 332 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,121. Most fall between $1,728 and $8,113 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
332
States
43
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 332 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
$1,222$1,893$3,850$7,589$10,478

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,222 vs $10,478).

How the prices are spread

$984 – $1,269: 21 hospitals$984$1,269 – $1,638: 11 hospitals$1,638 – $2,113: 57 hospitals$1,638$2,113 – $2,725: 34 hospitals$2,725 – $3,516: 15 hospitals$2,725$3,516 – $4,536: 40 hospitals$4,536 – $5,851: 18 hospitals$4,536$5,851 – $7,549: 38 hospitals$7,549 – $9,738: 24 hospitals$7,549$9,738 – $12,563: 47 hospitals$9,738median $3,850price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (305 of 332 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$984$1,26921
$1,269$1,63811
$1,638$2,11357
$2,113$2,72534
$2,725$3,51615
$3,516$4,53640
$4,536$5,85118
$5,851$7,54938
$7,549$9,73824
$9,738$12,56347

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,685
Median cash price$3,850
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $3,850.

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: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,975 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,975Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,051 across 23 hospitalsMI$2,051New York: median $6,397 across 22 hospitalsNY$6,397Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,351 across 13 hospitalsOR$2,351Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,503 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,503Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,008 across 12 hospitalsOH$4,008Pennsylvania: median $10,239 across 18 hospitalsPA$10,239New Jersey: median $5,908 across 22 hospitalsNJ$5,908Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $10,478 across 27 hospitalsCA$10,478Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $7,589 across 11 hospitalsNC$7,589South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,642 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,642Louisiana: 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: median $12,566 across 10 hospitalsGA$12,566Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,478 across 21 hospitalsTX$4,478Florida: median $10,262 across 11 hospitalsFL$10,262
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,850. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$12,566+226%$903 – $12,566
California CA27$10,478+172%$2,515 – $10,478
Florida FL11$10,262+167%$4,956 – $10,262
Pennsylvania PA18$10,239+166%$8,028 – $10,436
North Carolina NC11$7,589+97%$7,589 – $7,589
New York NY22$6,397+66%$2,970 – $6,605
New Jersey NJ22$5,908+53%$4,881 – $6,311
Texas TX21$4,478+16%$4,478 – $4,478
Ohio OH12$4,008+4%$2,209 – $4,956
Iowa IA14$2,503−35%$2,503 – $2,503
Oregon OR13$2,351−39%$1,825 – $2,440
Michigan MI23$2,051−47%$2,051 – $3,770
Illinois IL15$1,975−49%$1,728 – $4,494
Oklahoma OK12$1,642−57%$1,642 – $1,642
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $3,850.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care284$4,478$1,768 – $9,586
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access39$2,051$1,113 – $3,770
Ownership
For-profit27$3,770$1,728 – $9,278
Government53$4,022$1,925 – $7,589
Non-profit251$3,875$1,728 – $10,239
System affiliation
Part of a system271$4,478$1,736 – $10,239
Independent61$2,498$1,442 – $6,022

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,101
Median cash price$3,850
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

217 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,069 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,268; most fall between $1,642 and $10,436.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 217 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
$1,024$1,728$3,069$10,239$10,478

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,024 vs $10,478).

Of the 248 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 217 gave a usable cash price; 26 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

332 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 385 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted332
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code385

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 24, 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 Repair Blood Vessel Vein Graft Lower Extremity.

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, “Repair of a leg blood vessel using a vein graft (CPT 35256) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-35256-repair-of-a-leg-blood-vessel-using-a-vein-graft