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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Catheter placed into the main vein to the heart

CPT 36010the billing code this page is about

Threading a catheter into the superior or inferior vena cava, the large vein returning blood to the heart, usually for imaging or treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $1,060 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,928 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,130. Most fall between $393 and $2,166 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,928
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 1,928 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
$229$517$1,060$1,975$3,594

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($229 vs $3,594).

How the prices are spread

$153 – $217: 83 hospitals$153$217 – $308: 102 hospitals$308 – $436: 139 hospitals$308$436 – $618: 190 hospitals$618 – $875: 246 hospitals$618$875 – $1,239: 235 hospitals$1,239 – $1,756: 269 hospitals$1,239$1,756 – $2,487: 242 hospitals$2,487 – $3,523: 130 hospitals$2,487$3,523 – $4,990: 103 hospitals$3,523median $1,060price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,739 of 1,928 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$153$21783
$217$308102
$308$436139
$436$618190
$618$875246
$875$1,239235
$1,239$1,756269
$1,756$2,487242
$2,487$3,523130
$3,523$4,990103

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,060.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,057 across 38 hospitalsWA$1,057Idaho: median $1,500 across 13 hospitalsID$1,500Montana: median $683 across 10 hospitalsMT$683North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $585 across 48 hospitalsMN$585Illinois: median $1,087 across 84 hospitalsIL$1,087Wisconsin: median $1,062 across 63 hospitalsWI$1,062Michigan: median $1,663 across 70 hospitalsMI$1,663New York: median $669 across 57 hospitalsNY$669Massachusetts: median $444 across 29 hospitalsMA$444Oregon: median $599 across 34 hospitalsOR$599Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $851 across 11 hospitalsSD$851Iowa: median $1,108 across 23 hospitalsIA$1,108Indiana: median $710 across 57 hospitalsIN$710Ohio: median $1,134 across 107 hospitalsOH$1,134Pennsylvania: median $1,655 across 93 hospitalsPA$1,655New Jersey: median $1,343 across 43 hospitalsNJ$1,343Connecticut: median $1,604 across 15 hospitalsCT$1,604Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,697 across 141 hospitalsCA$1,697Utah: median $1,622 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,622Colorado: median $1,202 across 40 hospitalsCO$1,202Nebraska: median $687 across 18 hospitalsNE$687Missouri: median $680 across 45 hospitalsMO$680Kentucky: median $891 across 30 hospitalsKY$891West Virginia: median $546 across 24 hospitalsWV$546Virginia: median $617 across 44 hospitalsVA$617Maryland: 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 $1,125 across 37 hospitalsAZ$1,125New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $567 across 27 hospitalsKS$567Arkansas: median $229 across 19 hospitalsAR$229Tennessee: median $436 across 48 hospitalsTN$436North Carolina: median $635 across 51 hospitalsNC$635South Carolina: median $783 across 33 hospitalsSC$783Oklahoma: median $799 across 34 hospitalsOK$799Louisiana: median $859 across 42 hospitalsLA$859Mississippi: median $602 across 33 hospitalsMS$602Alabama: median $535 across 28 hospitalsAL$535Georgia: median $1,975 across 69 hospitalsGA$1,975Hawaii: median $594 across 12 hospitalsHI$594Texas: median $1,633 across 163 hospitalsTX$1,633Florida: median $1,657 across 95 hospitalsFL$1,657
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,060. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA69$1,975+86%$883 – $2,292
California CA141$1,697+60%$645 – $4,256
Michigan MI70$1,663+57%$560 – $2,742
Florida FL95$1,657+56%$740 – $2,634
Pennsylvania PA93$1,655+56%$269 – $4,416
Texas TX163$1,633+54%$606 – $2,992
Utah UT27$1,622+53%$1,171 – $1,908
Connecticut CT15$1,604+51%$368 – $1,963
Idaho ID13$1,500+42%$1,256 – $3,484
New Jersey NJ43$1,343+27%$129 – $5,419
Colorado CO40$1,202+13%$358 – $2,970
Ohio OH107$1,134+7%$703 – $1,943
Arizona AZ37$1,125+6%$383 – $4,886
Iowa IA23$1,108+5%$809 – $1,867
Illinois IL84$1,087+3%$496 – $2,230
Wisconsin WI63$1,0620%$613 – $1,573
Washington WA38$1,0570%$637 – $1,910
Kentucky KY30$891−16%$319 – $3,354
Louisiana LA42$859−19%$455 – $2,009
South Dakota SD11$851−20%$313 – $1,460
Oklahoma OK34$799−25%$234 – $1,236
South Carolina SC33$783−26%$343 – $2,076
Indiana IN57$710−33%$484 – $1,376
Nebraska NE18$687−35%$553 – $1,017
Montana MT10$683−36%$467 – $858
Missouri MO45$680−36%$496 – $1,060
New York NY57$669−37%$190 – $1,172
North Carolina NC51$635−40%$302 – $932
Virginia VA44$617−42%$268 – $1,910
Mississippi MS33$602−43%$230 – $1,372
Oregon OR34$599−43%$311 – $1,806
Hawaii HI12$594−44%$380 – $811
Minnesota MN48$585−45%$256 – $2,303
Kansas KS27$567−46%$296 – $1,206
West Virginia WV24$546−48%$114 – $970
Alabama AL28$535−50%$345 – $2,404
Massachusetts MA29$444−58%$266 – $1,135
Tennessee TN48$436−59%$154 – $1,484
Arkansas AR19$229−78%$184 – $604
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not 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 $1,060.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,665$1,083$397 – $2,184
Children’s45$1,351$425 – $3,436
Critical access209$793$313 – $1,704
Ownership
For-profit226$1,323$566 – $3,011
Government257$709$321 – $1,463
Non-profit1,436$1,087$405 – $2,166
System affiliation
Part of a system1,636$1,105$455 – $2,272
Independent292$782$282 – $1,760

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,817
Median cash price$1,060
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

1,497 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,131 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,208; most fall between $440 and $2,265.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,497 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
$255$562$1,131$1,997$3,848

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($255 vs $3,848).

Of the 1,619 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,497 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 88 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,928 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,140 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,928
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded139
Hospitals that filed this code2,140

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 vascular catheterization, not heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Intro Catheter Superior/Inferior Vena Cava.

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, “Catheter placed into the main vein to the heart (CPT 36010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36010-catheter-placed-into-the-main-vein-to-the-heart