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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Catheter steered into a second-branch chest or neck artery

CPT 36216the billing code this page is about

Selective placement of a catheter into a second-order artery branching off the chest or head-and-arm vessels, one level deeper than a first branch.

Hospitals typically charge $1,475 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,770 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,602. Most fall between $641 and $2,938 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,770
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 1,770 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
$410$747$1,475$2,668$4,766

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($410 vs $4,766).

How the prices are spread

$305 – $415: 97 hospitals$305$415 – $565: 114 hospitals$565 – $770: 172 hospitals$565$770 – $1,049: 183 hospitals$1,049 – $1,429: 194 hospitals$1,049$1,429 – $1,946: 216 hospitals$1,946 – $2,651: 254 hospitals$1,946$2,651 – $3,612: 165 hospitals$3,612 – $4,921: 118 hospitals$3,612$4,921 – $6,703: 81 hospitals$4,921median $1,475price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,594 of 1,770 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$305$41597
$415$565114
$565$770172
$770$1,049183
$1,049$1,429194
$1,429$1,946216
$1,946$2,651254
$2,651$3,612165
$3,612$4,921118
$4,921$6,70381

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,475.

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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,537 across 43 hospitalsWA$1,537Idaho: median $2,000 across 12 hospitalsID$2,000Montana: median $1,778 across 11 hospitalsMT$1,778North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,221 across 38 hospitalsMN$1,221Illinois: median $1,972 across 79 hospitalsIL$1,972Wisconsin: median $1,470 across 59 hospitalsWI$1,470Michigan: median $2,200 across 64 hospitalsMI$2,200New York: median $1,133 across 49 hospitalsNY$1,133Massachusetts: median $953 across 20 hospitalsMA$953Oregon: median $1,160 across 32 hospitalsOR$1,160Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $386 across 10 hospitalsSD$386Iowa: median $2,079 across 20 hospitalsIA$2,079Indiana: median $1,370 across 52 hospitalsIN$1,370Ohio: median $1,568 across 100 hospitalsOH$1,568Pennsylvania: median $2,502 across 88 hospitalsPA$2,502New Jersey: median $2,759 across 41 hospitalsNJ$2,759Connecticut: median $1,840 across 14 hospitalsCT$1,840Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,636 across 137 hospitalsCA$2,636Utah: median $2,244 across 26 hospitalsUT$2,244Colorado: median $1,938 across 34 hospitalsCO$1,938Nebraska: median $712 across 17 hospitalsNE$712Missouri: median $1,139 across 46 hospitalsMO$1,139Kentucky: median $2,016 across 25 hospitalsKY$2,016West Virginia: median $546 across 20 hospitalsWV$546Virginia: median $1,210 across 35 hospitalsVA$1,210Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,095 across 35 hospitalsAZ$1,095New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,060 across 20 hospitalsKS$1,060Arkansas: median $895 across 15 hospitalsAR$895Tennessee: median $473 across 44 hospitalsTN$473North Carolina: median $1,176 across 46 hospitalsNC$1,176South Carolina: median $1,121 across 33 hospitalsSC$1,121Oklahoma: median $952 across 34 hospitalsOK$952Louisiana: median $829 across 40 hospitalsLA$829Mississippi: median $660 across 28 hospitalsMS$660Alabama: median $1,069 across 26 hospitalsAL$1,069Georgia: median $1,557 across 66 hospitalsGA$1,557Hawaii: median $1,244 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,244Texas: median $2,336 across 161 hospitalsTX$2,336Florida: median $1,986 across 82 hospitalsFL$1,986
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,475. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ41$2,759+87%$325 – $5,339
California CA137$2,636+79%$664 – $4,452
Pennsylvania PA88$2,502+70%$440 – $3,964
Texas TX161$2,336+58%$880 – $5,286
Utah UT26$2,244+52%$2,244 – $2,640
Michigan MI64$2,200+49%$835 – $4,204
Iowa IA20$2,079+41%$927 – $2,780
Kentucky KY25$2,016+37%$679 – $2,184
Idaho ID12$2,000+36%$1,532 – $4,236
Florida FL82$1,986+35%$964 – $4,190
Illinois IL79$1,972+34%$775 – $2,811
Colorado CO34$1,938+31%$843 – $2,341
Connecticut CT14$1,840+25%$1,357 – $4,296
Montana MT11$1,778+21%$1,427 – $1,778
Ohio OH100$1,568+6%$1,112 – $2,712
Georgia GA66$1,557+6%$463 – $3,321
Washington WA43$1,537+4%$694 – $3,944
Wisconsin WI59$1,4700%$756 – $2,038
Indiana IN52$1,370−7%$583 – $2,217
Hawaii HI11$1,244−16%$449 – $1,287
Minnesota MN38$1,221−17%$689 – $1,704
Virginia VA35$1,210−18%$413 – $2,464
North Carolina NC46$1,176−20%$685 – $1,819
Oregon OR32$1,160−21%$807 – $2,545
Missouri MO46$1,139−23%$708 – $1,985
New York NY49$1,133−23%$572 – $2,164
South Carolina SC33$1,121−24%$499 – $1,696
Arizona AZ35$1,095−26%$749 – $8,602
Alabama AL26$1,069−28%$284 – $1,938
Kansas KS20$1,060−28%$576 – $1,544
Massachusetts MA20$953−35%$456 – $1,861
Oklahoma OK34$952−35%$442 – $1,456
Arkansas AR15$895−39%$286 – $1,170
Louisiana LA40$829−44%$445 – $2,141
Nebraska NE17$712−52%$515 – $1,557
Mississippi MS28$660−55%$519 – $852
West Virginia WV20$546−63%$293 – $1,036
Tennessee TN44$473−68%$255 – $950
South Dakota SD10$386−74%$386 – $3,086
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $1,475.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,567$1,472$637 – $2,923
Children’s45$2,393$620 – $6,414
Critical access150$1,470$716 – $2,590
Ownership
For-profit210$2,000$784 – $5,059
Government209$1,045$518 – $2,226
Non-profit1,343$1,475$657 – $2,923
System affiliation
Part of a system1,528$1,505$670 – $3,058
Independent242$1,280$539 – $2,590

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,588
Median cash price$1,475
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

1,395 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,559 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,685; most fall between $685 and $2,923.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,395 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
$445$775$1,559$2,668$4,469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($445 vs $4,469).

Of the 1,511 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,395 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,770 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,964 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,770
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code1,964

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 1st 2nd 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 second-branch chest or neck artery (CPT 36216) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36216-catheter-steered-into-a-second-branch-chest-or-neck-artery