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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Catheter placed into a smaller branch of a lung artery

CPT 36015the billing code this page is about

Selective placement of a catheter into a segmental or smaller branch of the pulmonary artery within one lung.

Hospitals typically charge $1,082 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,569 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,216. Most fall between $495 and $2,348 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,569
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 1,569 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
$289$593$1,082$2,096$4,308

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($289 vs $4,308).

How the prices are spread

$202 – $283: 75 hospitals$202$283 – $396: 86 hospitals$396 – $555: 121 hospitals$396$555 – $777: 184 hospitals$777 – $1,088: 243 hospitals$777$1,088 – $1,523: 204 hospitals$1,523 – $2,133: 196 hospitals$1,523$2,133 – $2,986: 149 hospitals$2,986 – $4,181: 68 hospitals$2,986$4,181 – $5,855: 87 hospitals$4,181median $1,082price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,413 of 1,569 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$202$28375
$283$39686
$396$555121
$555$777184
$777$1,088243
$1,088$1,523204
$1,523$2,133196
$2,133$2,986149
$2,986$4,18168
$4,181$5,85587

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,082.

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 $966 across 33 hospitalsWA$966Idaho: median $2,921 across 11 hospitalsID$2,921Montana: median $1,417 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,417North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,015 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,015Illinois: median $1,134 across 64 hospitalsIL$1,134Wisconsin: median $897 across 53 hospitalsWI$897Michigan: median $1,038 across 61 hospitalsMI$1,038New York: median $756 across 41 hospitalsNY$756Massachusetts: median $1,052 across 21 hospitalsMA$1,052Oregon: median $1,075 across 28 hospitalsOR$1,075Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,885 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,885Indiana: median $1,097 across 47 hospitalsIN$1,097Ohio: median $1,003 across 86 hospitalsOH$1,003Pennsylvania: median $1,440 across 75 hospitalsPA$1,440New Jersey: median $3,986 across 32 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,252 across 129 hospitalsCA$2,252Utah: median $1,176 across 26 hospitalsUT$1,176Colorado: median $712 across 32 hospitalsCO$712Nebraska: median $605 across 17 hospitalsNE$605Missouri: median $859 across 35 hospitalsMO$859Kentucky: median $1,249 across 23 hospitalsKY$1,249West Virginia: median $1,351 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,351Virginia: median $671 across 37 hospitalsVA$671Maryland: 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 $599 across 30 hospitalsAZ$599New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $909 across 14 hospitalsKS$909Arkansas: median $329 across 16 hospitalsAR$329Tennessee: median $495 across 38 hospitalsTN$495North Carolina: median $794 across 33 hospitalsNC$794South Carolina: median $854 across 36 hospitalsSC$854Oklahoma: median $596 across 29 hospitalsOK$596Louisiana: median $740 across 27 hospitalsLA$740Mississippi: median $463 across 24 hospitalsMS$463Alabama: median $695 across 20 hospitalsAL$695Georgia: median $1,136 across 60 hospitalsGA$1,136Hawaii: median $665 across 10 hospitalsHI$665Texas: median $1,707 across 152 hospitalsTX$1,707Florida: median $1,607 across 83 hospitalsFL$1,607
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,082. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ32$3,986+268%$499 – $5,741
Idaho ID11$2,921+170%$1,675 – $6,179
California CA129$2,252+108%$498 – $6,815
Iowa IA21$1,885+74%$1,416 – $2,206
Texas TX152$1,707+58%$391 – $3,348
Florida FL83$1,607+48%$771 – $2,217
Pennsylvania PA75$1,440+33%$312 – $4,568
Montana MT10$1,417+31%$1,078 – $1,417
West Virginia WV11$1,351+25%$491 – $2,910
Kentucky KY23$1,249+15%$339 – $2,659
Utah UT26$1,176+9%$1,176 – $1,384
Georgia GA60$1,136+5%$498 – $1,582
Illinois IL64$1,134+5%$530 – $2,348
Indiana IN47$1,097+1%$645 – $1,696
Oregon OR28$1,075−1%$494 – $1,903
Massachusetts MA21$1,052−3%$430 – $2,172
Michigan MI61$1,038−4%$691 – $3,717
Minnesota MN37$1,015−6%$635 – $2,565
Ohio OH86$1,003−7%$741 – $2,152
Washington WA33$966−11%$600 – $2,239
Kansas KS14$909−16%$269 – $1,280
Wisconsin WI53$897−17%$824 – $1,509
Missouri MO35$859−21%$422 – $1,237
South Carolina SC36$854−21%$805 – $4,469
North Carolina NC33$794−27%$299 – $1,237
New York NY41$756−30%$373 – $2,007
Louisiana LA27$740−32%$410 – $1,603
Colorado CO32$712−34%$368 – $1,990
Alabama AL20$695−36%$339 – $1,225
Virginia VA37$671−38%$505 – $1,749
Hawaii HI10$665−39%$246 – $1,083
Nebraska NE17$605−44%$428 – $1,198
Arizona AZ30$599−45%$447 – $5,767
Oklahoma OK29$596−45%$196 – $1,218
Tennessee TN38$495−54%$309 – $907
Mississippi MS24$463−57%$318 – $1,008
Arkansas AR16$329−70%$192 – $1,052
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $1,082.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,396$1,082$476 – $2,348
Children’s44$1,055$600 – $3,853
Critical access120$1,097$736 – $1,744
Ownership
For-profit177$1,458$499 – $4,022
Government175$808$420 – $1,815
Non-profit1,208$1,083$504 – $2,252
System affiliation
Part of a system1,378$1,097$504 – $2,348
Independent191$1,012$352 – $2,257

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,945
Median cash price$1,082
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

1,254 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,104 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,234; most fall between $498 and $2,252.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,254 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
$293$593$1,104$2,021$3,853

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($293 vs $3,853).

Of the 1,346 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,254 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,569 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,726 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,569
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded103
Hospitals that filed this code1,726

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 Segmental/Subsegmental Pulm Art.

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 a smaller branch of a lung artery (CPT 36015) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36015-catheter-placed-into-a-smaller-branch-of-a-lung-artery