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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Catheter steered into a deeper branch vein

CPT 36012the billing code this page is about

Placement of a catheter into a second-order or more distant branch of a vein, requiring more navigation than a first-branch placement.

Hospitals typically charge $1,151 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,783 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,333. Most fall between $516 and $2,736 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,783
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,783 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
$312$661$1,151$2,337$4,469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($312 vs $4,469).

How the prices are spread

$200 – $280: 74 hospitals$200$280 – $392: 89 hospitals$392 – $549: 122 hospitals$392$549 – $769: 185 hospitals$769 – $1,076: 283 hospitals$769$1,076 – $1,507: 223 hospitals$1,507 – $2,110: 205 hospitals$1,507$2,110 – $2,954: 194 hospitals$2,954 – $4,136: 105 hospitals$2,954$4,136 – $5,790: 129 hospitals$4,136median $1,151price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,609 of 1,783 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$200$28074
$280$39289
$392$549122
$549$769185
$769$1,076283
$1,076$1,507223
$1,507$2,110205
$2,110$2,954194
$2,954$4,136105
$4,136$5,790129

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,151.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,043 across 36 hospitalsWA$1,043Idaho: median $2,330 across 11 hospitalsID$2,330Montana: median $1,382 across 11 hospitalsMT$1,382North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $837 across 42 hospitalsMN$837Illinois: median $1,380 across 77 hospitalsIL$1,380Wisconsin: median $1,268 across 59 hospitalsWI$1,268Michigan: median $1,268 across 64 hospitalsMI$1,268New York: median $839 across 51 hospitalsNY$839Massachusetts: median $827 across 25 hospitalsMA$827Oregon: median $1,040 across 31 hospitalsOR$1,040Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $411 across 10 hospitalsSD$411Iowa: median $1,499 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,499Indiana: median $924 across 50 hospitalsIN$924Ohio: median $1,042 across 100 hospitalsOH$1,042Pennsylvania: median $2,224 across 89 hospitalsPA$2,224New Jersey: median $1,518 across 42 hospitalsNJ$1,518Connecticut: median $1,444 across 17 hospitalsCT$1,444Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,590 across 141 hospitalsCA$2,590Utah: median $954 across 27 hospitalsUT$954Colorado: median $1,728 across 34 hospitalsCO$1,728Nebraska: median $1,325 across 19 hospitalsNE$1,325Missouri: median $896 across 47 hospitalsMO$896Kentucky: median $1,169 across 25 hospitalsKY$1,169West Virginia: median $499 across 22 hospitalsWV$499Virginia: median $1,686 across 40 hospitalsVA$1,686Maryland: 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 $833 across 34 hospitalsAZ$833New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $535 across 18 hospitalsKS$535Arkansas: median $314 across 16 hospitalsAR$314Tennessee: median $505 across 44 hospitalsTN$505North Carolina: median $777 across 50 hospitalsNC$777South Carolina: median $845 across 33 hospitalsSC$845Oklahoma: median $785 across 31 hospitalsOK$785Louisiana: median $973 across 37 hospitalsLA$973Mississippi: median $814 across 25 hospitalsMS$814Alabama: median $687 across 24 hospitalsAL$687Georgia: median $1,484 across 62 hospitalsGA$1,484Hawaii: median $662 across 10 hospitalsHI$662Texas: median $1,766 across 158 hospitalsTX$1,766Florida: median $1,445 across 87 hospitalsFL$1,445
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,151. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA141$2,590+125%$661 – $4,749
Idaho ID11$2,330+102%$1,743 – $4,197
Pennsylvania PA89$2,224+93%$312 – $5,531
Texas TX158$1,766+53%$673 – $2,806
Colorado CO34$1,728+50%$697 – $3,457
Virginia VA40$1,686+47%$593 – $2,653
New Jersey NJ42$1,518+32%$206 – $5,394
Iowa IA22$1,499+30%$878 – $2,137
Georgia GA62$1,484+29%$1,048 – $1,658
Florida FL87$1,445+26%$811 – $3,172
Connecticut CT17$1,444+25%$553 – $2,732
Montana MT11$1,382+20%$1,241 – $1,523
Illinois IL77$1,380+20%$551 – $2,287
Nebraska NE19$1,325+15%$1,031 – $1,779
Michigan MI64$1,268+10%$691 – $4,635
Wisconsin WI59$1,268+10%$783 – $2,246
Kentucky KY25$1,169+2%$392 – $3,685
Washington WA36$1,043−9%$511 – $3,600
Ohio OH100$1,042−9%$658 – $2,538
Oregon OR31$1,040−10%$495 – $2,681
Louisiana LA37$973−15%$409 – $1,880
Utah UT27$954−17%$954 – $1,122
Indiana IN50$924−20%$437 – $1,603
Missouri MO47$896−22%$702 – $1,524
South Carolina SC33$845−27%$380 – $1,577
New York NY51$839−27%$443 – $1,890
Minnesota MN42$837−27%$409 – $2,283
Arizona AZ34$833−28%$494 – $2,997
Massachusetts MA25$827−28%$279 – $3,542
Mississippi MS25$814−29%$318 – $860
Oklahoma OK31$785−32%$556 – $994
North Carolina NC50$777−32%$423 – $1,454
Alabama AL24$687−40%$390 – $854
Hawaii HI10$662−42%$261 – $1,083
Kansas KS18$535−54%$393 – $1,280
Tennessee TN44$505−56%$197 – $1,818
West Virginia WV22$499−57%$184 – $1,384
South Dakota SD10$411−64%$411 – $3,750
Arkansas AR16$314−73%$186 – $751
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $1,151.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,578$1,151$513 – $2,806
Children’s47$1,538$561 – $4,626
Critical access149$1,055$517 – $2,143
Ownership
For-profit211$1,576$687 – $4,248
Government206$937$423 – $1,811
Non-profit1,357$1,152$528 – $2,726
System affiliation
Part of a system1,538$1,183$563 – $2,806
Independent245$1,005$380 – $2,360

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,077
Median cash price$1,151
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

1,410 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,245 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,431; most fall between $576 and $2,806.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,410 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
$331$704$1,245$2,470$4,635

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($331 vs $4,635).

Of the 1,525 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,410 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,783 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,989 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,783
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded133
Hospitals that filed this code1,989

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 Slctv Cath Plmt Ven Sys 2nd Order/> Slctv Branc.

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 steered into a deeper branch vein (CPT 36012) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36012-catheter-steered-into-a-deeper-branch-vein