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

Plaque removal from armpit or upper arm artery

CPT 35321the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to clear fatty plaque and clot from the axillary or brachial artery in the shoulder or upper arm, including a patch repair if needed.

Hospitals typically charge $3,229 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 357 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,001. Most fall between $1,461 and $7,651 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
357
States
40
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 357 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
$1,046$1,650$3,229$6,605$12,563

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,046 vs $12,563).

How the prices are spread

$831 – $1,090: 23 hospitals$831$1,090 – $1,431: 22 hospitals$1,431 – $1,877: 39 hospitals$1,431$1,877 – $2,463: 41 hospitals$2,463 – $3,232: 38 hospitals$2,463$3,232 – $4,241: 11 hospitals$4,241 – $5,565: 24 hospitals$4,241$5,565 – $7,302: 70 hospitals$7,302 – $9,581: 21 hospitals$7,302$9,581 – $12,572: 37 hospitals$9,581median $3,229price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (326 of 357 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$831$1,09023
$1,090$1,43122
$1,431$1,87739
$1,877$2,46341
$2,463$3,23238
$3,232$4,24111
$4,241$5,56524
$5,565$7,30270
$7,302$9,58121
$9,581$12,57237

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,685
Median cash price$3,229
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $3,229.

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: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,678 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,678Wisconsin: median $7,115 across 25 hospitalsWI$7,115Michigan: median $1,888 across 26 hospitalsMI$1,888New York: median $6,397 across 27 hospitalsNY$6,397Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,062 across 12 hospitalsOR$2,062Nevada: 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 $2,178 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,178Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,313 across 10 hospitalsOH$4,313Pennsylvania: median $3,841 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,841New Jersey: median $5,855 across 29 hospitalsNJ$5,855Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $12,572 across 25 hospitalsCA$12,572Utah: 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: 7 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: 4 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,456 across 16 hospitalsOK$1,456Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,994 across 35 hospitalsTX$5,994Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,229. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$12,572+289%$2,465 – $12,572
Wisconsin WI25$7,115+120%$2,703 – $7,685
New York NY27$6,397+98%$2,589 – $6,946
Texas TX35$5,994+86%$5,118 – $5,994
New Jersey NJ29$5,855+81%$3,786 – $6,366
Ohio OH10$4,313+34%$1,370 – $10,570
Pennsylvania PA19$3,841+19%$550 – $9,139
Iowa IA16$2,178−33%$2,178 – $2,653
Oregon OR12$2,062−36%$1,622 – $2,062
Michigan MI26$1,888−42%$1,888 – $3,177
Illinois IL16$1,678−48%$1,402 – $12,726
Oklahoma OK16$1,456−55%$1,456 – $6,991
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not 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
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $3,229.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care297$4,313$1,517 – $7,651
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access55$2,703$1,402 – $7,115
Ownership
For-profit35$5,118$1,402 – $8,928
Government36$2,662$1,571 – $6,397
Non-profit286$3,229$1,456 – $7,651
System affiliation
Part of a system307$3,986$1,468 – $7,651
Independent50$2,395$1,156 – $6,828

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,924
Median cash price$3,229
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

231 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,703 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,315; most fall between $1,456 and $7,726.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 231 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
$1,156$1,473$2,703$5,994$12,572

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,156 vs $12,572).

Of the 254 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 231 gave a usable cash price; 16 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

357 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 398 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted357
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code398

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 Teaec W/WO Patch Grf Axillary-Brachial.

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, “Plaque removal from armpit or upper arm artery (CPT 35321) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-35321-plaque-removal-from-armpit-or-upper-arm-artery