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Sclerosant injection for multiple leaky veins in one leg

CPT 36471the billing code this page is about

Injection of a solution that closes off more than one incompetent vein in the same leg during the session, not counting spider veins.

Hospitals typically charge $496 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,400 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $553. Most fall between $243 and $1,102 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,400
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 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 1,400 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
$158$290$496$983$1,493

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $1,493).

How the prices are spread

$109 – $146: 60 hospitals$109$146 – $196: 62 hospitals$196 – $262: 122 hospitals$196$262 – $352: 121 hospitals$352 – $472: 212 hospitals$352$472 – $633: 229 hospitals$633 – $848: 134 hospitals$633$848 – $1,137: 133 hospitals$1,137 – $1,525: 126 hospitals$1,137$1,525 – $2,045: 66 hospitals$1,525median $496price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,265 of 1,400 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$109$14660
$146$19662
$196$262122
$262$352121
$352$472212
$472$633229
$633$848134
$848$1,137133
$1,137$1,525126
$1,525$2,04566

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$496
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.19×

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 $496.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $449 across 28 hospitalsWA$449Idaho: median $1,117 across 11 hospitalsID$1,117Montana: 7 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 $519 across 49 hospitalsMN$519Illinois: median $450 across 66 hospitalsIL$450Wisconsin: median $323 across 81 hospitalsWI$323Michigan: median $243 across 46 hospitalsMI$243New York: median $473 across 53 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $626 across 21 hospitalsMA$626Oregon: median $360 across 19 hospitalsOR$360Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $657 across 12 hospitalsSD$657Iowa: median $448 across 33 hospitalsIA$448Indiana: median $262 across 42 hospitalsIN$262Ohio: median $521 across 80 hospitalsOH$521Pennsylvania: median $501 across 80 hospitalsPA$501New Jersey: median $533 across 46 hospitalsNJ$533Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $824 across 86 hospitalsCA$824Utah: median $1,300 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,300Colorado: median $1,829 across 27 hospitalsCO$1,829Nebraska: median $291 across 32 hospitalsNE$291Missouri: median $406 across 34 hospitalsMO$406Kentucky: median $371 across 19 hospitalsKY$371West Virginia: median $388 across 21 hospitalsWV$388Virginia: median $384 across 27 hospitalsVA$384Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $540 across 23 hospitalsAZ$540New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $314 across 19 hospitalsKS$314Arkansas: median $468 across 11 hospitalsAR$468Tennessee: median $229 across 21 hospitalsTN$229North Carolina: median $489 across 22 hospitalsNC$489South Carolina: median $4,469 across 21 hospitalsSC$4,469Oklahoma: median $401 across 27 hospitalsOK$401Louisiana: median $209 across 20 hospitalsLA$209Mississippi: median $226 across 11 hospitalsMS$226Alabama: median $493 across 15 hospitalsAL$493Georgia: median $1,084 across 49 hospitalsGA$1,084Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $517 across 76 hospitalsTX$517Florida: median $669 across 59 hospitalsFL$669
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $496. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC21$4,469+802%$400 – $9,119
Colorado CO27$1,829+269%$921 – $2,473
Utah UT23$1,300+162%$1,300 – $1,300
Idaho ID11$1,117+125%$382 – $1,117
Georgia GA49$1,084+119%$603 – $1,344
California CA86$824+66%$457 – $1,092
Florida FL59$669+35%$533 – $1,755
South Dakota SD12$657+33%$637 – $798
Massachusetts MA21$626+26%$188 – $920
Arizona AZ23$540+9%$116 – $2,045
New Jersey NJ46$533+8%$471 – $4,500
Ohio OH80$521+5%$346 – $1,475
Minnesota MN49$519+5%$266 – $796
Texas TX76$517+4%$423 – $1,211
Pennsylvania PA80$501+1%$271 – $1,293
Alabama AL15$4930%$221 – $626
North Carolina NC22$489−1%$312 – $502
New York NY53$473−5%$204 – $877
Arkansas AR11$468−6%$167 – $784
Illinois IL66$450−9%$250 – $1,045
Washington WA28$449−9%$289 – $1,014
Iowa IA33$448−10%$277 – $481
Missouri MO34$406−18%$229 – $930
Oklahoma OK27$401−19%$124 – $813
West Virginia WV21$388−22%$81 – $628
Virginia VA27$384−23%$286 – $768
Kentucky KY19$371−25%$209 – $1,604
Oregon OR19$360−27%$223 – $520
Wisconsin WI81$323−35%$243 – $496
Kansas KS19$314−37%$158 – $541
Nebraska NE32$291−41%$144 – $425
Indiana IN42$262−47%$193 – $544
Michigan MI46$243−51%$105 – $842
Tennessee TN21$229−54%$159 – $574
Mississippi MS11$226−54%$110 – $353
Louisiana LA20$209−58%$120 – $450
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $496.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,141$521$271 – $1,132
Children’s32$570$274 – $1,728
Critical access223$342$188 – $637
Ownership
For-profit103$588$214 – $1,344
Government212$470$266 – $832
Non-profit1,081$506$237 – $1,130
System affiliation
Part of a system1,184$507$250 – $1,140
Independent216$409$173 – $752

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$862
Median cash price$496
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

1,012 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $535 and the average of the middle 60% is $622; most fall between $261 and $1,204.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,012 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
$180$307$535$1,092$1,537

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($180 vs $1,537).

Of the 1,081 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,012 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,400 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,497 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,400
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,497

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 Injection Sclerosant Multiple Incmptnt Veins.

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, “Sclerosant injection for multiple leaky veins in one leg (CPT 36471) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36471-sclerosant-injection-for-multiple-leaky-veins-in-one-leg