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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Catheter placed in a main abdominal, pelvic or leg artery

CPT 36245the billing code this page is about

Guiding a catheter from the entry site into a first-branch artery of the abdomen, pelvis, or leg; billed once per artery family treated.

Hospitals typically charge $1,572 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,910 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,695. Most fall between $662 and $3,218 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,910
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,910 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
$414$775$1,572$2,891$4,752

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($414 vs $4,752).

How the prices are spread

$279 – $383: 77 hospitals$279$383 – $526: 93 hospitals$526 – $723: 174 hospitals$526$723 – $992: 173 hospitals$992 – $1,362: 222 hospitals$992$1,362 – $1,870: 258 hospitals$1,870 – $2,567: 235 hospitals$1,870$2,567 – $3,524: 256 hospitals$3,524 – $4,839: 142 hospitals$3,524$4,839 – $6,643: 96 hospitals$4,839median $1,572price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,726 of 1,910 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$279$38377
$383$52693
$526$723174
$723$992173
$992$1,362222
$1,362$1,870258
$1,870$2,567235
$2,567$3,524256
$3,524$4,839142
$4,839$6,64396

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,572.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,358 across 37 hospitalsWA$2,358Idaho: median $2,267 across 12 hospitalsID$2,267Montana: median $1,676 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,676North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,551 across 44 hospitalsMN$1,551Illinois: median $2,166 across 86 hospitalsIL$2,166Wisconsin: median $1,658 across 62 hospitalsWI$1,658Michigan: median $1,892 across 64 hospitalsMI$1,892New York: median $695 across 58 hospitalsNY$695Massachusetts: median $1,532 across 27 hospitalsMA$1,532Oregon: median $1,384 across 31 hospitalsOR$1,384Nevada: 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 $524 across 10 hospitalsSD$524Iowa: median $2,413 across 24 hospitalsIA$2,413Indiana: median $1,821 across 53 hospitalsIN$1,821Ohio: median $1,619 across 108 hospitalsOH$1,619Pennsylvania: median $1,861 across 95 hospitalsPA$1,861New Jersey: median $2,891 across 42 hospitalsNJ$2,891Connecticut: median $1,604 across 18 hospitalsCT$1,604Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,011 across 142 hospitalsCA$3,011Utah: median $1,579 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,579Colorado: median $1,957 across 37 hospitalsCO$1,957Nebraska: median $1,304 across 20 hospitalsNE$1,304Missouri: median $1,656 across 50 hospitalsMO$1,656Kentucky: median $1,259 across 31 hospitalsKY$1,259West Virginia: median $826 across 21 hospitalsWV$826Virginia: median $1,320 across 43 hospitalsVA$1,320Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $933 across 36 hospitalsAZ$933New Mexico: median $750 across 10 hospitalsNM$750Kansas: median $900 across 24 hospitalsKS$900Arkansas: median $621 across 18 hospitalsAR$621Tennessee: median $719 across 49 hospitalsTN$719North Carolina: median $1,193 across 51 hospitalsNC$1,193South Carolina: median $1,388 across 36 hospitalsSC$1,388Oklahoma: median $1,007 across 36 hospitalsOK$1,007Louisiana: median $801 across 44 hospitalsLA$801Mississippi: median $806 across 30 hospitalsMS$806Alabama: median $1,057 across 30 hospitalsAL$1,057Georgia: median $1,180 across 65 hospitalsGA$1,180Hawaii: median $619 across 11 hospitalsHI$619Texas: median $2,239 across 170 hospitalsTX$2,239Florida: median $1,963 across 89 hospitalsFL$1,963
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,572. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA142$3,011+92%$860 – $5,292
New Jersey NJ42$2,891+84%$280 – $5,419
Iowa IA24$2,413+54%$803 – $3,601
Washington WA37$2,358+50%$1,456 – $3,870
Idaho ID12$2,267+44%$1,600 – $4,804
Texas TX170$2,239+42%$1,087 – $4,379
Illinois IL86$2,166+38%$775 – $3,196
Florida FL89$1,963+25%$789 – $3,260
Colorado CO37$1,957+25%$995 – $2,267
Michigan MI64$1,892+20%$693 – $6,257
Pennsylvania PA95$1,861+18%$334 – $4,321
Indiana IN53$1,821+16%$645 – $2,796
Montana MT10$1,676+7%$1,030 – $2,087
Wisconsin WI62$1,658+5%$1,395 – $3,036
Missouri MO50$1,656+5%$699 – $2,534
Ohio OH108$1,619+3%$1,091 – $2,872
Connecticut CT18$1,604+2%$727 – $2,746
Utah UT27$1,5790%$1,359 – $1,857
Minnesota MN44$1,551−1%$610 – $2,772
Massachusetts MA27$1,532−3%$519 – $3,007
South Carolina SC36$1,388−12%$1,209 – $2,809
Oregon OR31$1,384−12%$421 – $3,218
Virginia VA43$1,320−16%$606 – $2,858
Nebraska NE20$1,304−17%$1,013 – $2,001
Kentucky KY31$1,259−20%$407 – $3,375
North Carolina NC51$1,193−24%$452 – $1,439
Georgia GA65$1,180−25%$701 – $3,197
Alabama AL30$1,057−33%$296 – $2,638
Oklahoma OK36$1,007−36%$621 – $1,575
Arizona AZ36$933−41%$782 – $6,643
Kansas KS24$900−43%$576 – $1,629
West Virginia WV21$826−47%$249 – $1,491
Mississippi MS30$806−49%$558 – $1,286
Louisiana LA44$801−49%$474 – $2,100
New Mexico NM10$750−52%$442 – $1,329
Tennessee TN49$719−54%$312 – $1,306
New York NY58$695−56%$378 – $1,889
Arkansas AR18$621−60%$521 – $1,232
Hawaii HI11$619−61%$584 – $1,393
South Dakota SD10$524−67%$524 – $2,995
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $1,572.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,684$1,567$671 – $3,237
Children’s43$2,375$860 – $6,442
Critical access174$1,483$615 – $2,886
Ownership
For-profit237$1,771$763 – $4,482
Government235$1,190$630 – $2,322
Non-profit1,429$1,629$657 – $3,218
System affiliation
Part of a system1,632$1,582$695 – $3,260
Independent278$1,288$490 – $2,766

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,837
Median cash price$1,572
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

1,486 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,683 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,775; most fall between $736 and $3,230.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,486 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
$461$827$1,683$2,927$4,713

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($461 vs $4,713).

Of the 1,601 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,486 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 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,910 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,111 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,910
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded134
Hospitals that filed this code2,111

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 Abdl Pel/Lxtr Art 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 placed in a main abdominal, pelvic or leg artery (CPT 36245) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36245-catheter-placed-in-a-main-abdominal-pelvic-or-leg-artery