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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures

Injections to treat spider veins on a limb or the trunk

CPT 36468the billing code this page is about

Injection of a solution that collapses tiny surface veins; the code covers all such injections given to one limb or trunk area during the session, whether one or many.

Hospitals typically charge $373 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 843 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $370. Most fall between $145 and $660 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
843
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 843 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
$103$189$373$588$1,173

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($103 vs $1,173).

How the prices are spread

$80 – $109: 56 hospitals$80$109 – $148: 77 hospitals$148 – $201: 62 hospitals$148$201 – $272: 70 hospitals$272 – $370: 111 hospitals$272$370 – $503: 158 hospitals$503 – $683: 103 hospitals$503$683 – $928: 42 hospitals$928 – $1,261: 39 hospitals$928$1,261 – $1,712: 42 hospitals$1,261median $373price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (760 of 843 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$80$10956
$109$14877
$148$20162
$201$27270
$272$370111
$370$503158
$503$683103
$683$92842
$928$1,26139
$1,261$1,71242

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$373
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $373.

Alaska: 2 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: median $175 across 10 hospitalsNH$175Washington: median $245 across 14 hospitalsWA$245Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $368 across 39 hospitalsMN$368Illinois: median $286 across 40 hospitalsIL$286Wisconsin: median $198 across 58 hospitalsWI$198Michigan: median $160 across 41 hospitalsMI$160New York: median $473 across 36 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $274 across 12 hospitalsMA$274Oregon: median $315 across 11 hospitalsOR$315Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $114 across 24 hospitalsIA$114Indiana: median $305 across 11 hospitalsIN$305Ohio: median $419 across 56 hospitalsOH$419Pennsylvania: median $480 across 46 hospitalsPA$480New Jersey: median $526 across 43 hospitalsNJ$526Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $437 across 64 hospitalsCA$437Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $660 across 13 hospitalsCO$660Nebraska: median $255 across 18 hospitalsNE$255Missouri: median $302 across 25 hospitalsMO$302Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $107 across 16 hospitalsWV$107Virginia: median $125 across 23 hospitalsVA$125Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $283 across 15 hospitalsOK$283Louisiana: median $257 across 11 hospitalsLA$257Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $251 across 10 hospitalsAL$251Georgia: median $548 across 16 hospitalsGA$548Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $392 across 50 hospitalsTX$392Florida: median $298 across 32 hospitalsFL$298
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $373. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO13$660+77%$310 – $660
Georgia GA16$548+47%$481 – $1,105
New Jersey NJ43$526+41%$213 – $4,627
Pennsylvania PA46$480+29%$246 – $817
New York NY36$473+27%$379 – $630
California CA64$437+17%$307 – $588
Ohio OH56$419+12%$240 – $1,493
Texas TX50$392+5%$294 – $950
Minnesota MN39$368−1%$256 – $553
Oregon OR11$315−16%$103 – $315
Indiana IN11$305−18%$145 – $425
Missouri MO25$302−19%$128 – $333
Florida FL32$298−20%$270 – $1,308
Illinois IL40$286−23%$113 – $834
Oklahoma OK15$283−24%$160 – $337
Massachusetts MA12$274−27%$145 – $496
Louisiana LA11$257−31%$135 – $485
Nebraska NE18$255−32%$187 – $400
Alabama AL10$251−33%$199 – $533
Washington WA14$245−34%$132 – $554
Wisconsin WI58$198−47%$82 – $447
New Hampshire NH10$175−53%$32 – $285
Michigan MI41$160−57%$140 – $886
Virginia VA23$125−66%$118 – $620
Iowa IA24$114−70%$114 – $255
West Virginia WV16$107−71%$55 – $518
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $373.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care674$399$171 – $661
Children’s20$704$231 – $1,059
Critical access145$228$97 – $527
Ownership
For-profit62$362$145 – $1,010
Government116$371$152 – $548
Non-profit661$373$145 – $661
System affiliation
Part of a system719$373$145 – $660
Independent124$336$129 – $749

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$571
Median cash price$373
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

595 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $373 and the average of the middle 60% is $372; most fall between $145 and $660.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 595 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
$106$189$373$602$1,234

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $1,234).

Of the 643 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 595 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

843 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 909 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted843
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code909

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 non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Injections Sclerosant for Spider Veins Lim/Trnk.

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, “Injections to treat spider veins on a limb or the trunk (CPT 36468) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36468-injections-to-treat-spider-veins-on-a-limb-or-the-trunk