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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Catheter placed into the right or left lung artery

CPT 36014the billing code this page is about

Selective placement of a catheter into the right or left pulmonary artery, one step beyond the main lung artery.

Hospitals typically charge $1,008 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,684 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,128. Most fall between $422 and $2,190 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,684
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 1,684 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
$268$528$1,008$2,030$3,380

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($268 vs $3,380).

How the prices are spread

$192 – $268: 85 hospitals$192$268 – $375: 113 hospitals$375 – $524: 138 hospitals$375$524 – $733: 199 hospitals$733 – $1,026: 233 hospitals$733$1,026 – $1,434: 217 hospitals$1,434 – $2,006: 191 hospitals$1,434$2,006 – $2,805: 193 hospitals$2,805 – $3,923: 87 hospitals$2,805$3,923 – $5,487: 63 hospitals$3,923median $1,008price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,519 of 1,684 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$192$26885
$268$375113
$375$524138
$524$733199
$733$1,026233
$1,026$1,434217
$1,434$2,006191
$2,006$2,805193
$2,805$3,92387
$3,923$5,48763

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,008.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $903 across 33 hospitalsWA$903Idaho: median $2,000 across 12 hospitalsID$2,000Montana: median $1,231 across 11 hospitalsMT$1,231North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,406 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,406Illinois: median $1,442 across 74 hospitalsIL$1,442Wisconsin: median $783 across 55 hospitalsWI$783Michigan: median $1,168 across 65 hospitalsMI$1,168New York: median $894 across 45 hospitalsNY$894Massachusetts: median $636 across 21 hospitalsMA$636Oregon: median $1,037 across 31 hospitalsOR$1,037Nevada: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,490 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,490Indiana: median $1,004 across 48 hospitalsIN$1,004Ohio: median $1,074 across 96 hospitalsOH$1,074Pennsylvania: median $1,546 across 78 hospitalsPA$1,546New Jersey: median $2,124 across 40 hospitalsNJ$2,124Connecticut: median $1,017 across 13 hospitalsCT$1,017Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,163 across 137 hospitalsCA$2,163Utah: median $929 across 27 hospitalsUT$929Colorado: median $699 across 33 hospitalsCO$699Nebraska: median $694 across 17 hospitalsNE$694Missouri: median $899 across 40 hospitalsMO$899Kentucky: median $950 across 18 hospitalsKY$950West Virginia: median $536 across 18 hospitalsWV$536Virginia: median $653 across 38 hospitalsVA$653Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $463 across 34 hospitalsAZ$463New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $899 across 14 hospitalsKS$899Arkansas: median $331 across 13 hospitalsAR$331Tennessee: median $700 across 39 hospitalsTN$700North Carolina: median $406 across 40 hospitalsNC$406South Carolina: median $608 across 34 hospitalsSC$608Oklahoma: median $597 across 31 hospitalsOK$597Louisiana: median $1,003 across 32 hospitalsLA$1,003Mississippi: median $595 across 28 hospitalsMS$595Alabama: median $630 across 25 hospitalsAL$630Georgia: median $1,074 across 65 hospitalsGA$1,074Hawaii: median $665 across 10 hospitalsHI$665Texas: median $1,424 across 156 hospitalsTX$1,424Florida: median $1,451 across 93 hospitalsFL$1,451
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,008. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA137$2,163+115%$459 – $4,171
New Jersey NJ40$2,124+111%$180 – $5,339
Idaho ID12$2,000+98%$1,483 – $3,925
Pennsylvania PA78$1,546+53%$275 – $3,345
Iowa IA21$1,490+48%$1,132 – $2,030
Florida FL93$1,451+44%$712 – $2,746
Illinois IL74$1,442+43%$529 – $2,295
Texas TX156$1,424+41%$547 – $2,523
Minnesota MN37$1,406+39%$765 – $2,233
Montana MT11$1,231+22%$1,090 – $1,231
Michigan MI65$1,168+16%$592 – $3,195
Ohio OH96$1,074+6%$634 – $1,907
Georgia GA65$1,074+6%$426 – $1,535
Oregon OR31$1,037+3%$447 – $1,364
Connecticut CT13$1,017+1%$466 – $2,346
Indiana IN48$1,0040%$645 – $1,392
Louisiana LA32$1,003−1%$409 – $1,906
Kentucky KY18$950−6%$270 – $2,074
Utah UT27$929−8%$790 – $929
Washington WA33$903−10%$541 – $2,094
Missouri MO40$899−11%$539 – $1,482
Kansas KS14$899−11%$282 – $1,459
New York NY45$894−11%$350 – $2,062
Wisconsin WI55$783−22%$719 – $1,824
Tennessee TN39$700−31%$295 – $933
Colorado CO33$699−31%$324 – $1,566
Nebraska NE17$694−31%$333 – $1,048
Hawaii HI10$665−34%$196 – $873
Virginia VA38$653−35%$313 – $2,653
Massachusetts MA21$636−37%$268 – $3,738
Alabama AL25$630−37%$202 – $1,225
South Carolina SC34$608−40%$380 – $1,692
Oklahoma OK31$597−41%$190 – $856
Mississippi MS28$595−41%$340 – $1,008
West Virginia WV18$536−47%$160 – $1,299
Arizona AZ34$463−54%$310 – $5,767
North Carolina NC40$406−60%$299 – $639
Arkansas AR13$331−67%$167 – $898
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $1,008.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,499$1,008$406 – $2,197
Children’s44$1,337$464 – $3,511
Critical access132$1,004$650 – $1,851
Ownership
For-profit196$1,381$521 – $3,738
Government197$715$340 – $1,626
Non-profit1,282$1,012$424 – $2,163
System affiliation
Part of a system1,470$1,034$459 – $2,187
Independent214$837$335 – $2,209

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,779
Median cash price$1,008
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

1,340 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,090 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,179; most fall between $469 and $2,187.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,340 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
$276$552$1,090$2,074$3,373

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($276 vs $3,373).

Of the 1,444 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,340 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 70 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,684 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,852 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,684
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 — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded106
Hospitals that filed this code1,852

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 Catheter Plmt Left/Right 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Catheter placed into the right or left lung artery (CPT 36014) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36014-catheter-placed-into-the-right-or-left-lung-artery