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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Vein catheter placed to collect blood from one organ

CPT 36500the billing code this page is about

A catheter is guided through the veins to a specific organ so blood can be drawn from that site for testing.

Hospitals typically charge $750 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,327 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $888. Most fall between $356 and $1,936 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,327
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 1,327 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
$241$425$750$1,659$3,546

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($241 vs $3,546).

How the prices are spread

$152 – $214: 47 hospitals$152$214 – $301: 71 hospitals$301 – $424: 146 hospitals$301$424 – $596: 170 hospitals$596 – $838: 214 hospitals$596$838 – $1,179: 155 hospitals$1,179 – $1,657: 126 hospitals$1,179$1,657 – $2,331: 106 hospitals$2,331 – $3,277: 81 hospitals$2,331$3,277 – $4,609: 84 hospitals$3,277median $750price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,200 of 1,327 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$152$21447
$214$30171
$301$424146
$424$596170
$596$838214
$838$1,179155
$1,179$1,657126
$1,657$2,331106
$2,331$3,27781
$3,277$4,60984

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $750.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,061 across 26 hospitalsWA$1,061Idaho: median $3,421 across 11 hospitalsID$3,421Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $552 across 32 hospitalsMN$552Illinois: median $933 across 55 hospitalsIL$933Wisconsin: median $760 across 32 hospitalsWI$760Michigan: median $873 across 49 hospitalsMI$873New York: median $640 across 36 hospitalsNY$640Massachusetts: median $669 across 20 hospitalsMA$669Oregon: median $540 across 28 hospitalsOR$540Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $646 across 19 hospitalsIA$646Indiana: median $577 across 45 hospitalsIN$577Ohio: median $620 across 83 hospitalsOH$620Pennsylvania: median $1,199 across 58 hospitalsPA$1,199New Jersey: median $3,095 across 38 hospitalsNJ$3,095Connecticut: median $700 across 14 hospitalsCT$700Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,037 across 117 hospitalsCA$1,037Utah: median $608 across 26 hospitalsUT$608Colorado: median $1,298 across 35 hospitalsCO$1,298Nebraska: median $352 across 14 hospitalsNE$352Missouri: median $735 across 26 hospitalsMO$735Kentucky: median $2,676 across 19 hospitalsKY$2,676West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,155 across 33 hospitalsVA$1,155Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $480 across 28 hospitalsAZ$480New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $735 across 11 hospitalsKS$735Arkansas: median $337 across 11 hospitalsAR$337Tennessee: median $267 across 25 hospitalsTN$267North Carolina: median $676 across 24 hospitalsNC$676South Carolina: median $1,002 across 30 hospitalsSC$1,002Oklahoma: median $356 across 26 hospitalsOK$356Louisiana: median $687 across 25 hospitalsLA$687Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $669 across 15 hospitalsAL$669Georgia: median $728 across 52 hospitalsGA$728Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,033 across 119 hospitalsTX$1,033Florida: median $847 across 68 hospitalsFL$847
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $750. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$3,421+356%$900 – $3,421
New Jersey NJ38$3,095+312%$217 – $5,339
Kentucky KY19$2,676+257%$274 – $3,934
Colorado CO35$1,298+73%$475 – $4,895
Pennsylvania PA58$1,199+60%$136 – $3,185
Virginia VA33$1,155+54%$360 – $1,976
Washington WA26$1,061+41%$578 – $1,755
California CA117$1,037+38%$699 – $3,205
Texas TX119$1,033+38%$497 – $1,894
South Carolina SC30$1,002+33%$446 – $4,469
Illinois IL55$933+24%$380 – $1,558
Michigan MI49$873+16%$444 – $1,659
Florida FL68$847+13%$512 – $1,387
Wisconsin WI32$760+1%$388 – $937
Kansas KS11$735−2%$593 – $3,012
Missouri MO26$735−2%$654 – $2,408
Georgia GA52$728−3%$560 – $1,221
Connecticut CT14$700−7%$150 – $907
Louisiana LA25$687−8%$361 – $1,231
North Carolina NC24$676−10%$269 – $683
Massachusetts MA20$669−11%$300 – $2,004
Alabama AL15$669−11%$143 – $2,973
Iowa IA19$646−14%$421 – $1,525
New York NY36$640−15%$400 – $1,310
Ohio OH83$620−17%$329 – $1,655
Utah UT26$608−19%$608 – $715
Indiana IN45$577−23%$274 – $1,174
Minnesota MN32$552−26%$428 – $2,600
Oregon OR28$540−28%$327 – $1,065
Arizona AZ28$480−36%$327 – $4,074
Oklahoma OK26$356−53%$141 – $822
Nebraska NE14$352−53%$324 – $403
Arkansas AR11$337−55%$149 – $579
Tennessee TN25$267−64%$141 – $737
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $750.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,192$760$360 – $1,927
Children’s35$930$610 – $2,597
Critical access93$608$276 – $1,659
Ownership
For-profit149$1,529$539 – $3,839
Government143$676$302 – $1,411
Non-profit1,028$750$358 – $1,842
System affiliation
Part of a system1,175$760$360 – $1,976
Independent152$620$286 – $1,630

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,366
Median cash price$750
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

1,047 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $750 and the average of the middle 60% is $890; most fall between $352 and $1,848.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,047 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
$221$415$750$1,630$3,172

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($221 vs $3,172).

Of the 1,140 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,047 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,327 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,475 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,327
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code1,475

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 Ven Cathj Slctv Organ Bld Sampling.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Vein catheter placed to collect blood from one organ (CPT 36500) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36500-vein-catheter-placed-to-collect-blood-from-one-organ