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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Needle or catheter placed into an arm or leg artery

CPT 36140the billing code this page is about

Direct puncture and insertion of a needle or catheter into an artery of an arm or leg for access, imaging, or treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $868 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,000 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $956. Most fall between $337 and $1,935 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,000
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 2,000 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
$175$444$868$1,728$3,296

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($175 vs $3,296).

How the prices are spread

$115 – $167: 80 hospitals$115$167 – $244: 121 hospitals$244 – $354: 108 hospitals$244$354 – $515: 216 hospitals$515 – $749: 269 hospitals$515$749 – $1,089: 296 hospitals$1,089 – $1,584: 252 hospitals$1,089$1,584 – $2,304: 238 hospitals$2,304 – $3,350: 127 hospitals$2,304$3,350 – $4,872: 100 hospitals$3,350median $868price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,807 of 2,000 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$115$16780
$167$244121
$244$354108
$354$515216
$515$749269
$749$1,089296
$1,089$1,584252
$1,584$2,304238
$2,304$3,350127
$3,350$4,872100

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $868.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $866 across 11 hospitalsNH$866Washington: median $918 across 43 hospitalsWA$918Idaho: median $1,000 across 13 hospitalsID$1,000Montana: median $805 across 13 hospitalsMT$805North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $818 across 40 hospitalsMN$818Illinois: median $906 across 86 hospitalsIL$906Wisconsin: median $1,036 across 77 hospitalsWI$1,036Michigan: median $1,110 across 68 hospitalsMI$1,110New York: median $478 across 62 hospitalsNY$478Massachusetts: median $657 across 31 hospitalsMA$657Oregon: median $488 across 42 hospitalsOR$488Nevada: median $1,048 across 10 hospitalsNV$1,048Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $567 across 12 hospitalsSD$567Iowa: median $1,164 across 30 hospitalsIA$1,164Indiana: median $645 across 57 hospitalsIN$645Ohio: median $1,061 across 108 hospitalsOH$1,061Pennsylvania: median $1,069 across 98 hospitalsPA$1,069New Jersey: median $2,126 across 43 hospitalsNJ$2,126Connecticut: median $991 across 16 hospitalsCT$991Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,780 across 149 hospitalsCA$1,780Utah: median $988 across 27 hospitalsUT$988Colorado: median $1,066 across 39 hospitalsCO$1,066Nebraska: median $417 across 24 hospitalsNE$417Missouri: median $702 across 50 hospitalsMO$702Kentucky: median $644 across 31 hospitalsKY$644West Virginia: median $508 across 22 hospitalsWV$508Virginia: median $1,210 across 42 hospitalsVA$1,210Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $479 across 36 hospitalsAZ$479New Mexico: median $337 across 16 hospitalsNM$337Kansas: median $531 across 24 hospitalsKS$531Arkansas: median $473 across 17 hospitalsAR$473Tennessee: median $470 across 43 hospitalsTN$470North Carolina: median $528 across 48 hospitalsNC$528South Carolina: median $427 across 31 hospitalsSC$427Oklahoma: median $525 across 37 hospitalsOK$525Louisiana: median $730 across 43 hospitalsLA$730Mississippi: median $704 across 31 hospitalsMS$704Alabama: median $488 across 28 hospitalsAL$488Georgia: median $716 across 67 hospitalsGA$716Hawaii: median $537 across 10 hospitalsHI$537Texas: median $1,242 across 175 hospitalsTX$1,242Florida: median $1,601 across 96 hospitalsFL$1,601
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $868. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ43$2,126+145%$106 – $4,881
California CA149$1,780+105%$468 – $4,872
Florida FL96$1,601+84%$466 – $3,353
Texas TX175$1,242+43%$523 – $2,383
Virginia VA42$1,210+39%$311 – $2,333
Iowa IA30$1,164+34%$317 – $1,625
Michigan MI68$1,110+28%$444 – $1,907
Pennsylvania PA98$1,069+23%$223 – $3,216
Colorado CO39$1,066+23%$405 – $2,120
Ohio OH108$1,061+22%$406 – $2,033
Nevada NV10$1,048+21%$183 – $2,008
Wisconsin WI77$1,036+19%$502 – $1,323
Idaho ID13$1,000+15%$935 – $3,058
Connecticut CT16$991+14%$370 – $2,158
Utah UT27$988+14%$740 – $1,097
Washington WA43$918+6%$570 – $2,561
Illinois IL86$906+4%$452 – $1,975
New Hampshire NH11$8660%$111 – $2,039
Minnesota MN40$818−6%$475 – $1,754
Montana MT13$805−7%$541 – $1,203
Louisiana LA43$730−16%$376 – $1,868
Georgia GA67$716−17%$479 – $1,597
Mississippi MS31$704−19%$275 – $974
Missouri MO50$702−19%$485 – $1,481
Massachusetts MA31$657−24%$223 – $1,173
Indiana IN57$645−26%$502 – $1,031
Kentucky KY31$644−26%$216 – $3,296
South Dakota SD12$567−35%$565 – $1,830
Hawaii HI10$537−38%$128 – $982
Kansas KS24$531−39%$240 – $1,061
North Carolina NC48$528−39%$193 – $814
Oklahoma OK37$525−39%$234 – $864
West Virginia WV22$508−42%$95 – $664
Alabama AL28$488−44%$104 – $2,779
Oregon OR42$488−44%$263 – $1,085
Arizona AZ36$479−45%$409 – $5,376
New York NY62$478−45%$224 – $1,665
Arkansas AR17$473−46%$227 – $881
Tennessee TN43$470−46%$125 – $1,818
South Carolina SC31$427−51%$262 – $1,325
Nebraska NE24$417−52%$289 – $791
New Mexico NM16$337−61%$187 – $943
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not 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 $868.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,706$905$357 – $2,087
Children’s43$918$361 – $2,844
Critical access242$704$318 – $1,294
Ownership
For-profit238$1,039$442 – $2,779
Government252$626$229 – $1,186
Non-profit1,501$910$363 – $2,033
System affiliation
Part of a system1,702$915$377 – $2,033
Independent298$688$229 – $1,698

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,520
Median cash price$868
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

1,559 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $935 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,032; most fall between $374 and $2,033.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,559 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
$189$470$935$1,806$3,353

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($189 vs $3,353).

Of the 1,671 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,559 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 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,000 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,200 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,000
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
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 — excluded136
Hospitals that filed this code2,200

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 of Needle or Intracatheter Upr/Lxtr 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, “Needle or catheter placed into an arm or leg artery (CPT 36140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36140-needle-or-catheter-placed-into-an-arm-or-leg-artery