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Procedure price report · Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography

Catheter placed into the right heart or main lung artery

CPT 36013the billing code this page is about

Threading a catheter through the veins into the right side of the heart or the main pulmonary artery for pressure measurement or imaging.

Hospitals typically charge $842 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,465 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $957. Most fall between $350 and $1,951 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,465
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 1,465 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
$223$434$842$1,710$3,062

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($223 vs $3,062).

How the prices are spread

$150 – $211: 56 hospitals$150$211 – $297: 117 hospitals$297 – $418: 100 hospitals$297$418 – $589: 150 hospitals$589 – $830: 229 hospitals$589$830 – $1,168: 194 hospitals$1,168 – $1,645: 170 hospitals$1,168$1,645 – $2,316: 143 hospitals$2,316 – $3,262: 108 hospitals$2,316$3,262 – $4,593: 57 hospitals$3,262median $842price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,324 of 1,465 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$150$21156
$211$297117
$297$418100
$418$589150
$589$830229
$830$1,168194
$1,168$1,645170
$1,645$2,316143
$2,316$3,262108
$3,262$4,59357

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $842.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $794 across 35 hospitalsWA$794Idaho: median $2,940 across 11 hospitalsID$2,940Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $762 across 32 hospitalsMN$762Illinois: median $956 across 53 hospitalsIL$956Wisconsin: median $695 across 50 hospitalsWI$695Michigan: median $1,404 across 53 hospitalsMI$1,404New York: median $460 across 39 hospitalsNY$460Massachusetts: median $669 across 19 hospitalsMA$669Oregon: median $512 across 29 hospitalsOR$512Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,416 across 20 hospitalsIA$1,416Indiana: median $664 across 46 hospitalsIN$664Ohio: median $961 across 91 hospitalsOH$961Pennsylvania: median $986 across 72 hospitalsPA$986New Jersey: median $1,740 across 36 hospitalsNJ$1,740Connecticut: median $1,653 across 10 hospitalsCT$1,653Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,638 across 107 hospitalsCA$1,638Utah: median $915 across 26 hospitalsUT$915Colorado: median $570 across 31 hospitalsCO$570Nebraska: median $697 across 16 hospitalsNE$697Missouri: median $607 across 36 hospitalsMO$607Kentucky: median $2,430 across 22 hospitalsKY$2,430West Virginia: median $360 across 15 hospitalsWV$360Virginia: median $646 across 33 hospitalsVA$646Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $718 across 33 hospitalsAZ$718New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $936 across 14 hospitalsKS$936Arkansas: median $248 across 15 hospitalsAR$248Tennessee: median $298 across 31 hospitalsTN$298North Carolina: median $321 across 35 hospitalsNC$321South Carolina: median $975 across 30 hospitalsSC$975Oklahoma: median $427 across 30 hospitalsOK$427Louisiana: median $776 across 28 hospitalsLA$776Mississippi: median $342 across 21 hospitalsMS$342Alabama: median $416 across 18 hospitalsAL$416Georgia: median $1,031 across 56 hospitalsGA$1,031Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,369 across 135 hospitalsTX$1,369Florida: median $1,373 across 76 hospitalsFL$1,373
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $842. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$2,940+249%$915 – $2,940
Kentucky KY22$2,430+189%$810 – $17,838
New Jersey NJ36$1,740+107%$150 – $4,881
Connecticut CT10$1,653+96%$695 – $2,192
California CA107$1,638+95%$505 – $3,291
Iowa IA20$1,416+68%$1,027 – $1,951
Michigan MI53$1,404+67%$349 – $3,282
Florida FL76$1,373+63%$653 – $2,630
Texas TX135$1,369+63%$426 – $1,862
Georgia GA56$1,031+22%$290 – $1,210
Pennsylvania PA72$986+17%$243 – $1,847
South Carolina SC30$975+16%$333 – $975
Ohio OH91$961+14%$422 – $1,912
Illinois IL53$956+14%$385 – $1,812
Kansas KS14$936+11%$426 – $1,967
Utah UT26$915+9%$915 – $1,076
Washington WA35$794−6%$291 – $2,187
Louisiana LA28$776−8%$434 – $1,768
Minnesota MN32$762−9%$716 – $1,548
Arizona AZ33$718−15%$334 – $5,213
Nebraska NE16$697−17%$694 – $788
Wisconsin WI50$695−17%$649 – $1,282
Massachusetts MA19$669−20%$322 – $2,762
Indiana IN46$664−21%$441 – $956
Virginia VA33$646−23%$238 – $3,062
Missouri MO36$607−28%$419 – $1,120
Colorado CO31$570−32%$477 – $1,273
Oregon OR29$512−39%$260 – $2,107
New York NY39$460−45%$252 – $1,537
Oklahoma OK30$427−49%$305 – $927
Alabama AL18$416−51%$202 – $736
West Virginia WV15$360−57%$133 – $676
Mississippi MS21$342−59%$231 – $801
North Carolina NC35$321−62%$268 – $1,076
Tennessee TN31$298−65%$242 – $793
Arkansas AR15$248−71%$132 – $907
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $842.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,300$834$340 – $1,951
Children’s38$964$538 – $2,387
Critical access118$906$512 – $1,930
Ownership
For-profit158$1,167$467 – $2,940
Government178$600$260 – $1,334
Non-profit1,120$842$374 – $1,951
System affiliation
Part of a system1,283$845$354 – $2,062
Independent182$827$272 – $1,805

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,519
Median cash price$842
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

1,186 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $893 and the average of the middle 60% is $976; most fall between $350 and $1,912.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,186 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
$233$436$893$1,675$2,762

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($233 vs $2,762).

Of the 1,280 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,186 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,465 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,623 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,465
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code1,623

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 Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Intro Catheter Right Heart/Main Pulmonary Artery.

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, “Catheter placed into the right heart or main lung artery (CPT 36013) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36013-catheter-placed-into-the-right-heart-or-main-lung-artery