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Contrast injection for an arm or leg vein X-ray

CPT 36005the billing code this page is about

Injection of contrast dye into a vein of an arm or leg so the veins can be imaged; covers the injection only, with imaging billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $545 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,006 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $640. Most fall between $210 and $1,412 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,006
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,006 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
$121$254$545$1,235$2,038

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($121 vs $2,038).

How the prices are spread

$84 – $120: 100 hospitals$84$120 – $171: 115 hospitals$171 – $245: 168 hospitals$171$245 – $350: 203 hospitals$350 – $500: 243 hospitals$350$500 – $715: 258 hospitals$715 – $1,022: 216 hospitals$715$1,022 – $1,460: 243 hospitals$1,460 – $2,088: 175 hospitals$1,460$2,088 – $2,984: 93 hospitals$2,088median $545price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,814 of 2,006 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$84$120100
$120$171115
$171$245168
$245$350203
$350$500243
$500$715258
$715$1,022216
$1,022$1,460243
$1,460$2,088175
$2,088$2,98493

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $545.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $454 across 10 hospitalsNH$454Washington: median $467 across 42 hospitalsWA$467Idaho: median $750 across 12 hospitalsID$750Montana: median $447 across 11 hospitalsMT$447North Dakota: median $764 across 10 hospitalsND$764Minnesota: median $515 across 43 hospitalsMN$515Illinois: median $540 across 91 hospitalsIL$540Wisconsin: median $610 across 66 hospitalsWI$610Michigan: median $582 across 71 hospitalsMI$582New York: median $408 across 59 hospitalsNY$408Massachusetts: median $365 across 33 hospitalsMA$365Oregon: median $811 across 37 hospitalsOR$811Nevada: median $651 across 10 hospitalsNV$651Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $866 across 11 hospitalsSD$866Iowa: median $677 across 30 hospitalsIA$677Indiana: median $356 across 53 hospitalsIN$356Ohio: median $1,206 across 115 hospitalsOH$1,206Pennsylvania: median $421 across 96 hospitalsPA$421New Jersey: median $969 across 43 hospitalsNJ$969Connecticut: median $759 across 17 hospitalsCT$759Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,477 across 153 hospitalsCA$1,477Utah: median $519 across 27 hospitalsUT$519Colorado: median $533 across 39 hospitalsCO$533Nebraska: median $371 across 22 hospitalsNE$371Missouri: median $480 across 52 hospitalsMO$480Kentucky: median $485 across 21 hospitalsKY$485West Virginia: median $266 across 24 hospitalsWV$266Virginia: median $498 across 45 hospitalsVA$498Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $348 across 39 hospitalsAZ$348New Mexico: median $267 across 12 hospitalsNM$267Kansas: median $240 across 25 hospitalsKS$240Arkansas: median $248 across 17 hospitalsAR$248Tennessee: median $404 across 48 hospitalsTN$404North Carolina: median $497 across 55 hospitalsNC$497South Carolina: median $902 across 34 hospitalsSC$902Oklahoma: median $346 across 34 hospitalsOK$346Louisiana: median $1,200 across 41 hospitalsLA$1,200Mississippi: median $232 across 29 hospitalsMS$232Alabama: median $269 across 31 hospitalsAL$269Georgia: median $362 across 71 hospitalsGA$362Hawaii: median $461 across 12 hospitalsHI$461Texas: median $730 across 171 hospitalsTX$730Florida: median $846 across 98 hospitalsFL$846
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $545. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA153$1,477+171%$326 – $2,382
Ohio OH115$1,206+121%$400 – $1,435
Louisiana LA41$1,200+120%$380 – $2,106
New Jersey NJ43$969+78%$225 – $4,881
South Carolina SC34$902+65%$502 – $1,415
South Dakota SD11$866+59%$866 – $1,117
Florida FL98$846+55%$292 – $1,548
Oregon OR37$811+49%$85 – $1,176
North Dakota ND10$764+40%$111 – $906
Connecticut CT17$759+39%$360 – $1,020
Idaho ID12$750+38%$519 – $2,386
Texas TX171$730+34%$260 – $1,592
Iowa IA30$677+24%$146 – $824
Nevada NV10$651+20%$77 – $1,260
Wisconsin WI66$610+12%$320 – $1,328
Michigan MI71$582+7%$114 – $1,560
Illinois IL91$540−1%$196 – $1,118
Colorado CO39$533−2%$172 – $1,013
Utah UT27$519−5%$444 – $610
Minnesota MN43$515−6%$215 – $1,099
Virginia VA45$498−9%$170 – $1,272
North Carolina NC55$497−9%$210 – $1,521
Kentucky KY21$485−11%$206 – $946
Missouri MO52$480−12%$185 – $1,181
Washington WA42$467−14%$251 – $1,182
Hawaii HI12$461−15%$285 – $893
New Hampshire NH10$454−17%$60 – $520
Montana MT11$447−18%$286 – $447
Pennsylvania PA96$421−23%$164 – $1,153
New York NY59$408−25%$123 – $2,328
Tennessee TN48$404−26%$173 – $772
Nebraska NE22$371−32%$229 – $711
Massachusetts MA33$365−33%$117 – $891
Georgia GA71$362−34%$254 – $881
Indiana IN53$356−35%$158 – $642
Arizona AZ39$348−36%$140 – $2,181
Oklahoma OK34$346−37%$198 – $628
Alabama AL31$269−51%$112 – $1,337
New Mexico NM12$267−51%$119 – $850
West Virginia WV24$266−51%$50 – $774
Arkansas AR17$248−55%$140 – $564
Kansas KS25$240−56%$154 – $461
Mississippi MS29$232−58%$98 – $1,250
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $545.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,711$556$219 – $1,434
Children’s46$1,013$260 – $1,878
Critical access240$442$144 – $1,123
Ownership
For-profit243$784$254 – $1,895
Government255$394$166 – $1,128
Non-profit1,499$552$212 – $1,367
System affiliation
Part of a system1,708$553$221 – $1,434
Independent298$461$154 – $1,182

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$955
Median cash price$545
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

1,570 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $581 and the average of the middle 60% is $670; most fall between $222 and $1,412.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,570 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
$138$276$581$1,254$1,901

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($138 vs $1,901).

Of the 1,695 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,570 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,006 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,221 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,006
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
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 — excluded145
Hospitals that filed this code2,221

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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Njx Px Xtr Vngrph W/Intro Ndl/Intracath.

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, “Contrast injection for an arm or leg vein X-ray (CPT 36005) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36005-contrast-injection-for-an-arm-or-leg-vein-x-ray