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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Catheter steered into a first-branch chest or neck artery

CPT 36215the billing code this page is about

Selective placement of a catheter into a first-order branch of the aorta in the chest or supplying the head and arms, such as the innominate or subclavian artery.

Hospitals typically charge $1,375 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,832 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,526. Most fall between $635 and $2,895 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,832
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 1,832 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
$372$734$1,375$2,523$4,866

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($372 vs $4,866).

How the prices are spread

$259 – $359: 77 hospitals$259$359 – $497: 79 hospitals$497 – $688: 160 hospitals$497$688 – $953: 214 hospitals$953 – $1,319: 260 hospitals$953$1,319 – $1,825: 233 hospitals$1,825 – $2,527: 260 hospitals$1,825$2,527 – $3,498: 179 hospitals$3,498 – $4,842: 94 hospitals$3,498$4,842 – $6,702: 94 hospitals$4,842median $1,375price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,650 of 1,832 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$259$35977
$359$49779
$497$688160
$688$953214
$953$1,319260
$1,319$1,825233
$1,825$2,527260
$2,527$3,498179
$3,498$4,84294
$4,842$6,70294

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,375.

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: 4 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 $1,452 across 43 hospitalsWA$1,452Idaho: median $2,460 across 11 hospitalsID$2,460Montana: median $1,703 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,703North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,124 across 44 hospitalsMN$1,124Illinois: median $1,865 across 83 hospitalsIL$1,865Wisconsin: median $1,303 across 61 hospitalsWI$1,303Michigan: median $1,995 across 64 hospitalsMI$1,995New York: median $958 across 54 hospitalsNY$958Massachusetts: median $937 across 25 hospitalsMA$937Oregon: median $1,040 across 32 hospitalsOR$1,040Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,034 across 10 hospitalsSD$2,034Iowa: median $1,510 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,510Indiana: median $1,440 across 50 hospitalsIN$1,440Ohio: median $1,390 across 105 hospitalsOH$1,390Pennsylvania: median $2,182 across 90 hospitalsPA$2,182New Jersey: median $2,632 across 42 hospitalsNJ$2,632Connecticut: median $2,041 across 13 hospitalsCT$2,041Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,223 across 137 hospitalsCA$2,223Utah: median $2,460 across 26 hospitalsUT$2,460Colorado: median $1,336 across 36 hospitalsCO$1,336Nebraska: median $1,196 across 19 hospitalsNE$1,196Missouri: median $910 across 47 hospitalsMO$910Kentucky: median $1,816 across 28 hospitalsKY$1,816West Virginia: median $681 across 21 hospitalsWV$681Virginia: median $1,587 across 40 hospitalsVA$1,587Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $950 across 35 hospitalsAZ$950New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $733 across 18 hospitalsKS$733Arkansas: median $677 across 15 hospitalsAR$677Tennessee: median $405 across 44 hospitalsTN$405North Carolina: median $1,211 across 47 hospitalsNC$1,211South Carolina: median $1,216 across 36 hospitalsSC$1,216Oklahoma: median $1,047 across 33 hospitalsOK$1,047Louisiana: median $855 across 41 hospitalsLA$855Mississippi: median $521 across 30 hospitalsMS$521Alabama: median $984 across 29 hospitalsAL$984Georgia: median $1,252 across 65 hospitalsGA$1,252Hawaii: median $1,122 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,122Texas: median $2,043 across 164 hospitalsTX$2,043Florida: median $2,156 across 92 hospitalsFL$2,156
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,375. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ42$2,632+91%$254 – $5,110
Idaho ID11$2,460+79%$1,800 – $5,206
Utah UT26$2,460+79%$2,460 – $2,895
California CA137$2,223+62%$675 – $4,854
Pennsylvania PA90$2,182+59%$365 – $4,321
Florida FL92$2,156+57%$811 – $4,276
Texas TX164$2,043+49%$872 – $3,506
Connecticut CT13$2,041+48%$1,226 – $3,686
South Dakota SD10$2,034+48%$1,697 – $2,150
Michigan MI64$1,995+45%$734 – $5,929
Illinois IL83$1,865+36%$780 – $2,850
Kentucky KY28$1,816+32%$712 – $2,052
Montana MT10$1,703+24%$1,424 – $1,703
Virginia VA40$1,587+15%$370 – $2,351
Iowa IA22$1,510+10%$803 – $2,631
Washington WA43$1,452+6%$1,001 – $3,079
Indiana IN50$1,440+5%$625 – $2,126
Ohio OH105$1,390+1%$946 – $4,129
Colorado CO36$1,336−3%$666 – $1,873
Wisconsin WI61$1,303−5%$715 – $1,922
Georgia GA65$1,252−9%$963 – $3,063
South Carolina SC36$1,216−12%$621 – $1,840
North Carolina NC47$1,211−12%$543 – $1,624
Nebraska NE19$1,196−13%$854 – $1,654
Minnesota MN44$1,124−18%$730 – $1,587
Hawaii HI11$1,122−18%$574 – $2,043
Oklahoma OK33$1,047−24%$542 – $1,508
Oregon OR32$1,040−24%$629 – $2,052
Alabama AL29$984−28%$251 – $3,588
New York NY54$958−30%$513 – $2,475
Arizona AZ35$950−31%$647 – $7,892
Massachusetts MA25$937−32%$460 – $2,451
Missouri MO47$910−34%$693 – $1,650
Louisiana LA41$855−38%$441 – $1,791
Kansas KS18$733−47%$576 – $1,293
West Virginia WV21$681−50%$223 – $872
Arkansas AR15$677−51%$276 – $1,042
Mississippi MS30$521−62%$471 – $729
Tennessee TN44$405−71%$255 – $1,679
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $1,375.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,616$1,369$629 – $2,895
Children’s45$2,238$962 – $6,732
Critical access162$1,303$618 – $2,380
Ownership
For-profit214$1,901$858 – $5,139
Government216$998$437 – $1,991
Non-profit1,393$1,390$642 – $2,886
System affiliation
Part of a system1,582$1,415$670 – $2,895
Independent250$1,176$491 – $2,600

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,536
Median cash price$1,375
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

1,438 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,479 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,581; most fall between $688 and $2,886.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,438 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
$405$809$1,479$2,562$4,469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($405 vs $4,469).

Of the 1,556 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,438 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 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,832 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,033 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,832
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 — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded136
Hospitals that filed this code2,033

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 Cathj Ea 1st Ord Thrc/Brch/Cphlc Brnch.

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 first-branch chest or neck artery (CPT 36215) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36215-catheter-steered-into-a-first-branch-chest-or-neck-artery