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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Deep-branch catheter angiogram of kidney artery, one side

CPT 36253the billing code this page is about

Threading a catheter into smaller branches beyond the main renal artery on one side and injecting dye to X-ray them; includes the imaging work.

Hospitals typically charge $5,399 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,684 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,487. Most fall between $3,046 and $9,264 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,684
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 1,684 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
$2,043$3,355$5,399$7,653$12,996

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,043 vs $12,996).

How the prices are spread

$1,442 – $1,860: 63 hospitals$1,442$1,860 – $2,399: 71 hospitals$2,399 – $3,094: 139 hospitals$2,399$3,094 – $3,991: 171 hospitals$3,991 – $5,147: 229 hospitals$3,991$5,147 – $6,639: 357 hospitals$6,639 – $8,563: 199 hospitals$6,639$8,563 – $11,045: 141 hospitals$11,045 – $14,245: 90 hospitals$11,045$14,245 – $18,374: 56 hospitals$14,245median $5,399price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,516 of 1,684 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,442$1,86063
$1,860$2,39971
$2,399$3,094139
$3,094$3,991171
$3,991$5,147229
$5,147$6,639357
$6,639$8,563199
$8,563$11,045141
$11,045$14,24590
$14,245$18,37456

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,685
Median cash price$5,399
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.95×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $5,399.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 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 $7,653 across 33 hospitalsWA$7,653Idaho: median $6,931 across 12 hospitalsID$6,931Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,662 across 34 hospitalsMN$5,662Illinois: median $5,313 across 72 hospitalsIL$5,313Wisconsin: median $4,978 across 56 hospitalsWI$4,978Michigan: median $5,039 across 57 hospitalsMI$5,039New York: median $6,605 across 55 hospitalsNY$6,605Massachusetts: median $6,104 across 23 hospitalsMA$6,104Oregon: median $5,178 across 27 hospitalsOR$5,178Nevada: median $6,052 across 10 hospitalsNV$6,052Wyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $4,249 across 20 hospitalsIA$4,249Indiana: median $4,610 across 52 hospitalsIN$4,610Ohio: median $5,677 across 95 hospitalsOH$5,677Pennsylvania: median $6,574 across 82 hospitalsPA$6,574New Jersey: median $6,453 across 55 hospitalsNJ$6,453Connecticut: median $7,218 across 13 hospitalsCT$7,218Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,301 across 137 hospitalsCA$7,301Utah: median $4,722 across 26 hospitalsUT$4,722Colorado: median $5,507 across 33 hospitalsCO$5,507Nebraska: median $2,814 across 17 hospitalsNE$2,814Missouri: median $4,508 across 44 hospitalsMO$4,508Kentucky: median $5,231 across 15 hospitalsKY$5,231West Virginia: median $1,546 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,546Virginia: median $4,404 across 39 hospitalsVA$4,404Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,344 across 31 hospitalsAZ$4,344New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $5,014 across 20 hospitalsKS$5,014Arkansas: median $2,743 across 17 hospitalsAR$2,743Tennessee: median $1,999 across 40 hospitalsTN$1,999North Carolina: median $4,299 across 44 hospitalsNC$4,299South Carolina: median $6,297 across 36 hospitalsSC$6,297Oklahoma: median $2,484 across 25 hospitalsOK$2,484Louisiana: median $3,349 across 32 hospitalsLA$3,349Mississippi: median $2,495 across 23 hospitalsMS$2,495Alabama: median $4,966 across 16 hospitalsAL$4,966Georgia: median $4,526 across 59 hospitalsGA$4,526Hawaii: median $3,012 across 10 hospitalsHI$3,012Texas: median $5,529 across 155 hospitalsTX$5,529Florida: median $6,013 across 86 hospitalsFL$6,013
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,399. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Washington WA33$7,653+42%$2,822 – $10,602
California CA137$7,301+35%$3,995 – $12,996
Connecticut CT13$7,218+34%$6,362 – $16,936
Idaho ID12$6,931+28%$4,589 – $12,563
New York NY55$6,605+22%$3,608 – $11,695
Pennsylvania PA82$6,574+22%$3,297 – $11,354
New Jersey NJ55$6,453+20%$4,881 – $9,971
South Carolina SC36$6,297+17%$3,832 – $9,998
Massachusetts MA23$6,104+13%$3,356 – $7,654
Nevada NV10$6,052+12%$3,426 – $7,863
Florida FL86$6,013+11%$5,284 – $15,274
Ohio OH95$5,677+5%$3,973 – $8,219
Minnesota MN34$5,662+5%$3,930 – $6,870
Texas TX155$5,529+2%$3,879 – $10,107
Colorado CO33$5,507+2%$3,642 – $8,647
Illinois IL72$5,313−2%$2,738 – $9,125
Kentucky KY15$5,231−3%$2,716 – $21,706
Oregon OR27$5,178−4%$745 – $7,981
Michigan MI57$5,039−7%$736 – $6,675
Kansas KS20$5,014−7%$2,457 – $7,767
Wisconsin WI56$4,978−8%$3,335 – $7,085
Alabama AL16$4,966−8%$4,078 – $7,893
Utah UT26$4,722−13%$4,589 – $5,399
Indiana IN52$4,610−15%$2,518 – $7,933
Georgia GA59$4,526−16%$3,114 – $11,129
Missouri MO44$4,508−16%$3,057 – $6,229
Virginia VA39$4,404−18%$2,666 – $6,705
Arizona AZ31$4,344−20%$2,394 – $22,201
North Carolina NC44$4,299−20%$2,246 – $6,170
Iowa IA20$4,249−21%$2,577 – $6,546
Louisiana LA32$3,349−38%$2,366 – $6,479
Hawaii HI10$3,012−44%$2,216 – $4,684
Nebraska NE17$2,814−48%$2,001 – $7,605
Arkansas AR17$2,743−49%$1,885 – $5,112
Mississippi MS23$2,495−54%$1,746 – $4,225
Oklahoma OK25$2,484−54%$1,734 – $4,278
Tennessee TN40$1,999−63%$1,595 – $2,814
West Virginia WV18$1,546−71%$366 – $5,070
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $5,399.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,500$5,466$3,054 – $9,534
Children’s45$5,753$3,426 – $10,490
Critical access131$4,842$2,051 – $6,870
Ownership
For-profit185$5,858$2,978 – $16,784
Government199$4,526$2,402 – $7,504
Non-profit1,292$5,419$3,100 – $8,790
System affiliation
Part of a system1,478$5,399$3,060 – $9,534
Independent206$5,282$2,450 – $8,938

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,375
Median cash price$5,399
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

1,292 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,399 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,547; most fall between $3,054 and $9,606.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,292 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
$2,189$3,247$5,399$7,981$12,996

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,189 vs $12,996).

Of the 1,381 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,292 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 51 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,684 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,812 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,684
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
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 — excluded56
Hospitals that filed this code1,812

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 Supslctv Cath 2nd+Ord Renal&Accessory Artery/S&I.

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, “Deep-branch catheter angiogram of kidney artery, one side (CPT 36253) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36253-deep-branch-catheter-angiogram-of-kidney-artery-one-side