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

Repair of a neck blood vessel using a synthetic graft

CPT 35261the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to repair a damaged blood vessel in the neck using graft material other than the patient's own vein, such as a synthetic tube.

Hospitals typically charge $2,990 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 239 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,928. Most fall between $1,195 and $4,930 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
239
States
34
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 239 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
$981$1,594$2,990$4,516$8,695

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($981 vs $8,695).

How the prices are spread

$650 – $849: 9 hospitals$650$849 – $1,108: 24 hospitals$1,108 – $1,447: 11 hospitals$1,108$1,447 – $1,889: 24 hospitals$1,889 – $2,465: 32 hospitals$1,889$2,465 – $3,218: 14 hospitals$3,218 – $4,201: 48 hospitals$3,218$4,201 – $5,485: 25 hospitals$5,485 – $7,160: 9 hospitals$5,485$7,160 – $9,346: 29 hospitals$7,160median $2,990price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (225 of 239 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$650$8499
$849$1,10824
$1,108$1,44711
$1,447$1,88924
$1,889$2,46532
$2,465$3,21814
$3,218$4,20148
$4,201$5,48525
$5,485$7,1609
$7,160$9,34629

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,226
Median cash price$2,990
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.93×

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 $2,990.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,841 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,841Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $1,004 across 22 hospitalsMI$1,004New York: median $3,725 across 21 hospitalsNY$3,725Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,756 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,756Nevada: 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 $2,383 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,383Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $732 across 18 hospitalsPA$732New Jersey: median $3,986 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,346 across 23 hospitalsCA$9,346Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,594 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,594Louisiana: 2 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,990. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA23$9,346+213%$9,346 – $9,346
New Jersey NJ22$3,986+33%$3,484 – $5,419
New York NY21$3,725+25%$2,865 – $3,725
Iowa IA14$2,383−20%$2,383 – $2,383
Illinois IL13$1,841−38%$785 – $8,695
Oregon OR10$1,756−41%$1,756 – $2,250
Oklahoma OK12$1,594−47%$1,594 – $1,594
Michigan MI22$1,004−66%$1,004 – $3,866
Pennsylvania PA18$732−76%$596 – $5,321
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not 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
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $2,990.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care207$3,357$1,594 – $5,110
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access26$1,580$1,004 – $3,866
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government28$2,969$1,841 – $3,725
Non-profit191$2,994$1,195 – $5,321
System affiliation
Part of a system203$3,440$1,195 – $5,383
Independent36$2,245$1,240 – $3,593

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,979
Median cash price$2,990
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

133 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,383 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,031; most fall between $1,240 and $7,280.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 133 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
$785$1,594$2,383$4,888$9,346

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($785 vs $9,346).

Of the 141 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 133 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

239 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 255 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted239
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code255

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 of head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Repair Blood Vessel W/Graft Other/Than Vein Neck.

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 neck blood vessel using a synthetic graft (CPT 35261) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-35261-repair-of-a-neck-blood-vessel-using-a-synthetic-graft