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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Each extra branch artery entered in the chest, head or arm

CPT 36218the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each additional second-order or deeper artery entered during the same session, billed once per extra vessel in addition to the main catheter placement.

Hospitals typically charge $675 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,597 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $767. Most fall between $246 and $1,564 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,597
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 1,597 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
$141$281$675$1,379$2,505

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($141 vs $2,505).

How the prices are spread

$85 – $126: 61 hospitals$85$126 – $188: 86 hospitals$188 – $278: 161 hospitals$188$278 – $414: 181 hospitals$414 – $614: 160 hospitals$414$614 – $912: 225 hospitals$912 – $1,355: 241 hospitals$912$1,355 – $2,012: 183 hospitals$2,012 – $2,989: 74 hospitals$2,012$2,989 – $4,439: 68 hospitals$2,989median $675price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,440 of 1,597 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$85$12661
$126$18886
$188$278161
$278$414181
$414$614160
$614$912225
$912$1,355241
$1,355$2,012183
$2,012$2,98974
$2,989$4,43968

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $675.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $491 across 33 hospitalsWA$491Idaho: median $1,323 across 10 hospitalsID$1,323Montana: median $339 across 10 hospitalsMT$339North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $659 across 39 hospitalsMN$659Illinois: median $909 across 68 hospitalsIL$909Wisconsin: median $615 across 59 hospitalsWI$615Michigan: median $916 across 62 hospitalsMI$916New York: median $304 across 41 hospitalsNY$304Massachusetts: median $1,070 across 19 hospitalsMA$1,070Oregon: median $280 across 27 hospitalsOR$280Nevada: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $927 across 20 hospitalsIA$927Indiana: median $577 across 47 hospitalsIN$577Ohio: median $1,008 across 92 hospitalsOH$1,008Pennsylvania: median $756 across 74 hospitalsPA$756New Jersey: median $1,531 across 40 hospitalsNJ$1,531Connecticut: median $665 across 12 hospitalsCT$665Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $868 across 129 hospitalsCA$868Utah: median $1,318 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,318Colorado: median $555 across 33 hospitalsCO$555Nebraska: median $719 across 16 hospitalsNE$719Missouri: median $479 across 40 hospitalsMO$479Kentucky: median $625 across 25 hospitalsKY$625West Virginia: median $89 across 16 hospitalsWV$89Virginia: median $557 across 36 hospitalsVA$557Maryland: 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 $321 across 33 hospitalsAZ$321New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $718 across 13 hospitalsKS$718Arkansas: median $164 across 13 hospitalsAR$164Tennessee: median $533 across 31 hospitalsTN$533North Carolina: median $586 across 44 hospitalsNC$586South Carolina: median $475 across 27 hospitalsSC$475Oklahoma: median $370 across 31 hospitalsOK$370Louisiana: median $455 across 32 hospitalsLA$455Mississippi: median $534 across 23 hospitalsMS$534Alabama: median $245 across 18 hospitalsAL$245Georgia: median $739 across 61 hospitalsGA$739Hawaii: median $266 across 11 hospitalsHI$266Texas: median $1,004 across 153 hospitalsTX$1,004Florida: median $617 across 76 hospitalsFL$617
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $675. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ40$1,531+127%$85 – $4,627
Idaho ID10$1,323+96%$400 – $4,236
Utah UT23$1,318+95%$1,318 – $1,550
Massachusetts MA19$1,070+59%$141 – $1,911
Ohio OH92$1,008+49%$450 – $1,481
Texas TX153$1,004+49%$344 – $3,699
Iowa IA20$927+37%$558 – $1,515
Michigan MI62$916+36%$266 – $1,622
Illinois IL68$909+35%$340 – $2,093
California CA129$868+29%$466 – $1,969
Pennsylvania PA74$756+12%$197 – $2,406
Georgia GA61$739+10%$362 – $1,351
Nebraska NE16$719+7%$553 – $1,053
Kansas KS13$718+6%$108 – $786
Connecticut CT12$665−1%$461 – $1,204
Minnesota MN39$659−2%$247 – $1,340
Kentucky KY25$625−7%$167 – $971
Florida FL76$617−9%$239 – $1,542
Wisconsin WI59$615−9%$318 – $976
North Carolina NC44$586−13%$159 – $1,228
Indiana IN47$577−14%$276 – $1,138
Virginia VA36$557−17%$172 – $1,277
Colorado CO33$555−18%$179 – $2,006
Mississippi MS23$534−21%$386 – $670
Tennessee TN31$533−21%$202 – $1,818
Washington WA33$491−27%$134 – $1,194
Missouri MO40$479−29%$116 – $1,558
South Carolina SC27$475−30%$256 – $1,967
Louisiana LA32$455−33%$181 – $1,460
Oklahoma OK31$370−45%$188 – $516
Montana MT10$339−50%$339 – $365
Arizona AZ33$321−52%$181 – $7,409
New York NY41$304−55%$132 – $1,620
Oregon OR27$280−59%$156 – $1,084
Hawaii HI11$266−61%$176 – $422
Alabama AL18$245−64%$103 – $631
Arkansas AR13$164−76%$52 – $248
West Virginia WV16$89−87%$56 – $546
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not 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 $675.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,413$669$239 – $1,571
Children’s43$1,087$402 – $1,934
Critical access133$747$286 – $1,340
Ownership
For-profit166$888$279 – $2,459
Government187$521$202 – $1,190
Non-profit1,236$697$247 – $1,550
System affiliation
Part of a system1,392$689$255 – $1,550
Independent205$617$179 – $1,662

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,208
Median cash price$675
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

1,265 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $718 and the average of the middle 60% is $783; most fall between $239 and $1,550.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,265 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
$147$281$718$1,405$2,231

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($147 vs $2,231).

Of the 1,359 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,265 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,597 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 1,772 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,597
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
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 — excluded115
Hospitals that filed this code1,772

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 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Each extra branch artery entered in the chest, head or arm (CPT 36218) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36218-each-extra-branch-artery-entered-in-the-chest-head-or-arm