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

Chest exploration for bleeding or clot after surgery

CPT 35820the billing code this page is about

Reopening a chest surgical site to look for and treat bleeding, a blood clot, or infection involving the blood vessels there.

Hospitals typically charge $3,996 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 361 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,078. Most fall between $2,241 and $7,174 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
361
States
46
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 361 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
$1,330$2,485$3,996$5,803$10,132

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,330 vs $10,132).

How the prices are spread

$1,027 – $1,305: 9 hospitals$1,027$1,305 – $1,657: 18 hospitals$1,657 – $2,104: 15 hospitals$1,657$2,104 – $2,673: 45 hospitals$2,673 – $3,394: 45 hospitals$2,673$3,394 – $4,311: 36 hospitals$4,311 – $5,474: 80 hospitals$4,311$5,474 – $6,952: 22 hospitals$6,952 – $8,830: 8 hospitals$6,952$8,830 – $11,214: 53 hospitals$8,830median $3,996price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (331 of 361 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,027$1,3059
$1,305$1,65718
$1,657$2,10415
$2,104$2,67345
$2,673$3,39445
$3,394$4,31136
$4,311$5,47480
$5,474$6,95222
$6,952$8,8308
$8,830$11,21453

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,996.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: median $4,256 across 18 hospitalsWA$4,256Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $7,545 across 16 hospitalsMN$7,545Illinois: median $4,913 across 22 hospitalsIL$4,913Wisconsin: median $10,205 across 29 hospitalsWI$10,205Michigan: median $2,842 across 31 hospitalsMI$2,842New York: median $2,860 across 20 hospitalsNY$2,860Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,615 across 12 hospitalsOR$3,615Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $4,913 across 18 hospitalsIA$4,913Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $5,049 across 17 hospitalsOH$5,049Pennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $5,339 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,327 across 11 hospitalsCA$3,327Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $3,080 across 10 hospitalsMO$3,080Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $2,231 across 10 hospitalsWV$2,231Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $3,268 across 13 hospitalsOK$3,268Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,996. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI29$10,205+155%$10,132 – $11,214
Minnesota MN16$7,545+89%$4,349 – $8,853
New Jersey NJ14$5,339+34%$4,350 – $6,664
Ohio OH17$5,049+26%$2,588 – $9,591
Iowa IA18$4,913+23%$4,246 – $4,913
Illinois IL22$4,913+23%$2,488 – $5,130
Washington WA18$4,256+7%$1,056 – $4,386
Oregon OR12$3,615−10%$3,615 – $4,658
California CA11$3,327−17%$829 – $6,470
Oklahoma OK13$3,268−18%$3,268 – $3,268
Missouri MO10$3,080−23%$2,828 – $3,558
New York NY20$2,860−28%$1,753 – $5,870
Michigan MI31$2,842−29%$2,485 – $4,607
West Virginia WV10$2,231−44%$2,148 – $3,570
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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
Delaware DE1not 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 $3,996.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care267$3,752$2,177 – $5,923
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access79$4,658$2,325 – $10,132
Ownership
For-profit28$2,588$1,762 – $7,174
Government49$3,320$1,888 – $5,076
Non-profit282$4,418$2,485 – $8,853
System affiliation
Part of a system286$4,213$2,241 – $8,853
Independent75$3,950$2,176 – $5,870

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,759
Median cash price$3,996
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

237 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,615 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,613; most fall between $1,888 and $5,447.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 237 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
$1,306$2,271$3,615$4,913$10,132

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,306 vs $10,132).

Of the 281 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 237 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

361 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 432 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted361
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
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 — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code432

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Expl Po Hemrrg Thrombosis/Infctj Ch.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Chest exploration for bleeding or clot after surgery (CPT 35820) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-35820-chest-exploration-for-bleeding-or-clot-after-surgery