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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures

Laser closure of a leg vein, each additional vein

CPT 36479the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each extra faulty vein sealed with laser energy through a catheter during the same session in the same arm or leg.

Hospitals typically charge $2,384 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 787 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,422. Most fall between $725 and $4,719 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
787
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 787 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
$334$902$2,384$3,986$6,472

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($334 vs $6,472).

How the prices are spread

$182 – $266: 25 hospitals$182$266 – $388: 29 hospitals$388 – $567: 35 hospitals$388$567 – $828: 61 hospitals$828 – $1,210: 54 hospitals$828$1,210 – $1,768: 63 hospitals$1,768 – $2,583: 123 hospitals$1,768$2,583 – $3,773: 143 hospitals$3,773 – $5,513: 100 hospitals$3,773$5,513 – $8,054: 78 hospitals$5,513median $2,384price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (711 of 787 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$182$26625
$266$38829
$388$56735
$567$82861
$828$1,21054
$1,210$1,76863
$1,768$2,583123
$2,583$3,773143
$3,773$5,513100
$5,513$8,05478

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,384.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 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 $4,697 across 20 hospitalsMN$4,697Illinois: median $1,043 across 49 hospitalsIL$1,043Wisconsin: median $2,125 across 42 hospitalsWI$2,125Michigan: median $181 across 32 hospitalsMI$181New York: median $1,129 across 21 hospitalsNY$1,129Massachusetts: median $3,184 across 11 hospitalsMA$3,184Oregon: median $410 across 13 hospitalsOR$410Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $791 across 18 hospitalsIA$791Indiana: median $2,468 across 31 hospitalsIN$2,468Ohio: median $2,204 across 58 hospitalsOH$2,204Pennsylvania: median $2,978 across 31 hospitalsPA$2,978New Jersey: median $5,110 across 20 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 3 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 $3,136 across 56 hospitalsCA$3,136Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,763 across 21 hospitalsCO$1,763Nebraska: median $2,616 across 16 hospitalsNE$2,616Missouri: median $2,248 across 21 hospitalsMO$2,248Kentucky: median $2,883 across 14 hospitalsKY$2,883West Virginia: median $399 across 13 hospitalsWV$399Virginia: median $2,217 across 16 hospitalsVA$2,217Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,982 across 20 hospitalsAZ$1,982New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $655 across 11 hospitalsTN$655North Carolina: median $1,200 across 11 hospitalsNC$1,200South Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,714 across 24 hospitalsOK$1,714Louisiana: median $721 across 10 hospitalsLA$721Mississippi: median $1,082 across 13 hospitalsMS$1,082Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,878 across 35 hospitalsGA$3,878Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,065 across 35 hospitalsTX$3,065Florida: median $6,876 across 39 hospitalsFL$6,876
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,384. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL39$6,876+188%$2,989 – $7,176
New Jersey NJ20$5,110+114%$3,786 – $5,975
Minnesota MN20$4,697+97%$2,331 – $5,460
Georgia GA35$3,878+63%$2,990 – $5,243
Massachusetts MA11$3,184+34%$2,097 – $4,140
California CA56$3,136+32%$2,167 – $5,902
Texas TX35$3,065+29%$2,536 – $8,033
Pennsylvania PA31$2,978+25%$893 – $4,234
Kentucky KY14$2,883+21%$2,030 – $4,005
Nebraska NE16$2,616+10%$1,611 – $3,519
Indiana IN31$2,468+4%$966 – $4,536
Missouri MO21$2,248−6%$1,462 – $5,330
Virginia VA16$2,217−7%$1,489 – $2,512
Ohio OH58$2,204−8%$1,370 – $3,608
Wisconsin WI42$2,125−11%$759 – $3,025
Arizona AZ20$1,982−17%$1,450 – $12,767
Colorado CO21$1,763−26%$1,130 – $7,342
Oklahoma OK24$1,714−28%$1,186 – $3,216
North Carolina NC11$1,200−50%$182 – $2,955
New York NY21$1,129−53%$372 – $4,056
Mississippi MS13$1,082−55%$576 – $2,210
Illinois IL49$1,043−56%$399 – $2,897
Iowa IA18$791−67%$791 – $1,397
Louisiana LA10$721−70%$591 – $1,954
Tennessee TN11$655−73%$372 – $693
Oregon OR13$410−83%$114 – $541
West Virginia WV13$399−83%$143 – $3,825
Michigan MI32$181−92%$133 – $3,225
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $2,384.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care674$2,465$791 – $4,730
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access93$849$241 – $3,769
Ownership
For-profit71$2,989$1,123 – $6,876
Government89$2,009$577 – $4,332
Non-profit624$2,360$722 – $4,697
System affiliation
Part of a system683$2,445$791 – $4,697
Independent104$1,824$341 – $4,827

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,227
Median cash price$2,384
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

584 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,675 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,798; most fall between $1,110 and $5,243.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 584 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
$535$1,443$2,675$4,234$6,876

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($535 vs $6,876).

Of the 645 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 584 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

787 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 896 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted787
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
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 — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code896

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 non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Endoven Abltj Incmptnt Vein Xtr Laser 2nd+ 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, “Laser closure of a leg vein, each additional vein (CPT 36479) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36479-laser-closure-of-a-leg-vein-each-additional-vein