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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Umbilical vein catheter in a newborn

CPT 36510the billing code this page is about

A catheter is placed into the vein of a newborn's umbilical stump for testing or treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $253 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,329 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $281. Most fall between $111 and $598 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,329
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 1,329 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
$81$140$253$513$1,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $1,210).

How the prices are spread

$63 – $91: 123 hospitals$63$91 – $130: 130 hospitals$130 – $186: 184 hospitals$130$186 – $266: 205 hospitals$266 – $380: 189 hospitals$266$380 – $544: 123 hospitals$544 – $779: 108 hospitals$544$779 – $1,115: 58 hospitals$1,115 – $1,596: 36 hospitals$1,115$1,596 – $2,285: 45 hospitals$1,596median $253price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,201 of 1,329 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$63$91123
$91$130130
$130$186184
$186$266205
$266$380189
$380$544123
$544$779108
$779$1,11558
$1,115$1,59636
$1,596$2,28545

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $253.

Alaska: median $444 across 10 hospitalsAK$444Maine: median $116 across 11 hospitalsME$116Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $74 across 10 hospitalsNH$74Washington: median $184 across 48 hospitalsWA$184Idaho: median $446 across 14 hospitalsID$446Montana: median $165 across 10 hospitalsMT$165North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $222 across 45 hospitalsMN$222Illinois: median $368 across 56 hospitalsIL$368Wisconsin: median $345 across 64 hospitalsWI$345Michigan: median $190 across 51 hospitalsMI$190New York: median $139 across 36 hospitalsNY$139Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $260 across 40 hospitalsOR$260Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $276 across 10 hospitalsSD$276Iowa: median $206 across 38 hospitalsIA$206Indiana: median $216 across 39 hospitalsIN$216Ohio: median $151 across 78 hospitalsOH$151Pennsylvania: median $399 across 36 hospitalsPA$399New Jersey: median $4,500 across 19 hospitalsNJ$4,500Connecticut: median $319 across 10 hospitalsCT$319Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $255 across 82 hospitalsCA$255Utah: median $2,683 across 23 hospitalsUT$2,683Colorado: median $173 across 26 hospitalsCO$173Nebraska: median $189 across 25 hospitalsNE$189Missouri: median $248 across 34 hospitalsMO$248Kentucky: median $162 across 23 hospitalsKY$162West Virginia: median $247 across 14 hospitalsWV$247Virginia: median $474 across 34 hospitalsVA$474Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $138 across 16 hospitalsKS$138Arkansas: median $270 across 12 hospitalsAR$270Tennessee: median $95 across 21 hospitalsTN$95North Carolina: median $269 across 34 hospitalsNC$269South Carolina: median $253 across 21 hospitalsSC$253Oklahoma: median $108 across 29 hospitalsOK$108Louisiana: median $106 across 20 hospitalsLA$106Mississippi: median $205 across 19 hospitalsMS$205Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $360 across 55 hospitalsGA$360Hawaii: median $203 across 12 hospitalsHI$203Texas: median $681 across 83 hospitalsTX$681Florida: median $363 across 53 hospitalsFL$363
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $253. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ19$4,500+1680%$400 – $5,741
Utah UT23$2,683+961%$2,534 – $2,981
Texas TX83$681+169%$263 – $1,558
Virginia VA34$474+87%$156 – $1,084
Idaho ID14$446+76%$176 – $2,907
Alaska AK10$444+76%$253 – $991
Pennsylvania PA36$399+58%$37 – $731
Illinois IL56$368+45%$160 – $1,110
Florida FL53$363+44%$82 – $2,285
Georgia GA55$360+42%$70 – $737
Wisconsin WI64$345+36%$203 – $371
Connecticut CT10$319+26%$140 – $864
South Dakota SD10$276+9%$272 – $298
Arkansas AR12$270+7%$187 – $931
North Carolina NC34$269+6%$75 – $450
Oregon OR40$260+3%$155 – $867
California CA82$255+1%$160 – $516
South Carolina SC21$2530%$253 – $530
Missouri MO34$248−2%$149 – $594
West Virginia WV14$247−2%$164 – $296
Minnesota MN45$222−12%$141 – $530
Indiana IN39$216−15%$123 – $445
Iowa IA38$206−19%$141 – $236
Mississippi MS19$205−19%$116 – $333
Hawaii HI12$203−20%$179 – $290
Michigan MI51$190−25%$123 – $458
Nebraska NE25$189−25%$143 – $234
Washington WA48$184−27%$109 – $234
Colorado CO26$173−32%$102 – $329
Montana MT10$165−35%$64 – $276
Kentucky KY23$162−36%$86 – $279
Ohio OH78$151−40%$84 – $335
New York NY36$139−45%$69 – $289
Kansas KS16$138−46%$96 – $280
Maine ME11$116−54%$87 – $142
Oklahoma OK29$108−57%$88 – $584
Louisiana LA20$106−58%$60 – $250
Tennessee TN21$95−62%$32 – $188
New Hampshire NH10$74−71%$68 – $296
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $253.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,007$253$105 – $632
Children’s38$530$162 – $1,717
Critical access279$231$125 – $485
Ownership
For-profit86$302$126 – $681
Government198$240$109 – $444
Non-profit1,040$251$113 – $619
System affiliation
Part of a system1,114$255$121 – $624
Independent215$203$99 – $534

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$417
Median cash price$253
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

1,023 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $253 and the average of the middle 60% is $288; most fall between $111 and $665.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,023 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
$82$139$253$530$1,412

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $1,412).

Of the 1,110 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,023 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,329 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 1,477 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,329
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
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 — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code1,477

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 Cathj Umbilical Vein Dx/Ther Nb.

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, “Umbilical vein catheter in a newborn (CPT 36510) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36510-umbilical-vein-catheter-in-a-newborn