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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures

Removal of a tunneled central IV line with port or pump

CPT 36590the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a tunneled central venous access device that includes a port or pump under the skin, whether placed in a central or peripheral vein.

Hospitals typically charge $1,697 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,590 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,735. Most fall between $632 and $3,232 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,590
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,590 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
$406$810$1,697$2,824$4,631

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($406 vs $4,631).

How the prices are spread

$276 – $374: 96 hospitals$276$374 – $507: 134 hospitals$507 – $687: 212 hospitals$507$687 – $932: 166 hospitals$932 – $1,265: 242 hospitals$932$1,265 – $1,715: 345 hospitals$1,715 – $2,327: 420 hospitals$1,715$2,327 – $3,156: 291 hospitals$3,156 – $4,280: 239 hospitals$3,156$4,280 – $5,806: 197 hospitals$4,280median $1,697price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,342 of 2,590 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$276$37496
$374$507134
$507$687212
$687$932166
$932$1,265242
$1,265$1,715345
$1,715$2,327420
$2,327$3,156291
$3,156$4,280239
$4,280$5,806197

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,608
Median cash price$1,697
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $1,697.

Alaska: median $2,156 across 15 hospitalsAK$2,156Maine: median $889 across 20 hospitalsME$889Vermont: median $400 across 11 hospitalsVT$400New Hampshire: median $464 across 14 hospitalsNH$464Washington: median $1,445 across 68 hospitalsWA$1,445Idaho: median $1,746 across 20 hospitalsID$1,746Montana: median $630 across 22 hospitalsMT$630North Dakota: median $1,600 across 16 hospitalsND$1,600Minnesota: median $1,253 across 82 hospitalsMN$1,253Illinois: median $1,485 across 109 hospitalsIL$1,485Wisconsin: median $1,214 across 97 hospitalsWI$1,214Michigan: median $1,268 across 75 hospitalsMI$1,268New York: median $1,965 across 102 hospitalsNY$1,965Massachusetts: median $1,786 across 43 hospitalsMA$1,786Oregon: median $637 across 54 hospitalsOR$637Nevada: median $1,960 across 14 hospitalsNV$1,960Wyoming: median $725 across 10 hospitalsWY$725South Dakota: median $2,090 across 18 hospitalsSD$2,090Iowa: median $829 across 69 hospitalsIA$829Indiana: median $1,900 across 68 hospitalsIN$1,900Ohio: median $2,357 across 121 hospitalsOH$2,357Pennsylvania: median $1,815 across 114 hospitalsPA$1,815New Jersey: median $2,073 across 57 hospitalsNJ$2,073Connecticut: median $1,365 across 19 hospitalsCT$1,365Rhode Island: median $1,741 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,741California: median $3,219 across 170 hospitalsCA$3,219Utah: median $1,426 across 30 hospitalsUT$1,426Colorado: median $1,546 across 47 hospitalsCO$1,546Nebraska: median $1,280 across 52 hospitalsNE$1,280Missouri: median $1,471 across 71 hospitalsMO$1,471Kentucky: median $1,381 across 31 hospitalsKY$1,381West Virginia: median $1,576 across 32 hospitalsWV$1,576Virginia: median $1,724 across 51 hospitalsVA$1,724Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,953 across 39 hospitalsAZ$1,953New Mexico: median $1,723 across 22 hospitalsNM$1,723Kansas: median $956 across 61 hospitalsKS$956Arkansas: median $1,088 across 33 hospitalsAR$1,088Tennessee: median $699 across 54 hospitalsTN$699North Carolina: median $1,538 across 61 hospitalsNC$1,538South Carolina: median $2,595 across 41 hospitalsSC$2,595Oklahoma: median $1,394 across 47 hospitalsOK$1,394Louisiana: median $1,035 across 44 hospitalsLA$1,035Mississippi: median $581 across 51 hospitalsMS$581Alabama: median $1,518 across 29 hospitalsAL$1,518Georgia: median $2,176 across 77 hospitalsGA$2,176Hawaii: median $1,643 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,643Texas: median $2,187 across 171 hospitalsTX$2,187Florida: median $2,745 across 100 hospitalsFL$2,745
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,697. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA170$3,219+90%$1,637 – $5,326
Florida FL100$2,745+62%$1,199 – $5,050
South Carolina SC41$2,595+53%$1,450 – $3,158
Ohio OH121$2,357+39%$1,492 – $4,154
Texas TX171$2,187+29%$1,306 – $4,061
Georgia GA77$2,176+28%$1,554 – $4,515
Alaska AK15$2,156+27%$1,131 – $3,460
South Dakota SD18$2,090+23%$932 – $2,341
New Jersey NJ57$2,073+22%$1,719 – $5,110
New York NY102$1,965+16%$608 – $4,587
Nevada NV14$1,960+15%$834 – $2,447
Arizona AZ39$1,953+15%$754 – $6,624
Indiana IN68$1,900+12%$735 – $3,091
Pennsylvania PA114$1,815+7%$736 – $3,288
Massachusetts MA43$1,786+5%$1,286 – $2,820
Idaho ID20$1,746+3%$556 – $3,542
Rhode Island RI10$1,741+3%$515 – $3,924
Virginia VA51$1,724+2%$766 – $2,622
New Mexico NM22$1,723+2%$824 – $4,464
Hawaii HI14$1,643−3%$1,233 – $3,172
North Dakota ND16$1,600−6%$370 – $2,653
West Virginia WV32$1,576−7%$572 – $1,908
Colorado CO47$1,546−9%$911 – $2,384
North Carolina NC61$1,538−9%$863 – $2,162
Alabama AL29$1,518−11%$653 – $2,047
Illinois IL109$1,485−13%$652 – $3,903
Missouri MO71$1,471−13%$630 – $3,252
Washington WA68$1,445−15%$650 – $2,600
Utah UT30$1,426−16%$1,212 – $1,640
Oklahoma OK47$1,394−18%$676 – $2,840
Kentucky KY31$1,381−19%$542 – $2,308
Connecticut CT19$1,365−20%$1,000 – $2,829
Nebraska NE52$1,280−25%$518 – $2,234
Michigan MI75$1,268−25%$257 – $1,561
Minnesota MN82$1,253−26%$534 – $1,823
Wisconsin WI97$1,214−29%$819 – $1,912
Arkansas AR33$1,088−36%$524 – $1,912
Louisiana LA44$1,035−39%$508 – $2,061
Kansas KS61$956−44%$400 – $2,106
Maine ME20$889−48%$316 – $1,769
Iowa IA69$829−51%$370 – $2,650
Wyoming WY10$725−57%$580 – $921
Tennessee TN54$699−59%$508 – $1,415
Oregon OR54$637−62%$403 – $3,185
Montana MT22$630−63%$331 – $1,063
Mississippi MS51$581−66%$399 – $1,118
New Hampshire NH14$464−73%$346 – $2,286
Vermont VT11$400−76%$224 – $700
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not 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 $1,697.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,941$1,845$863 – $3,568
Children’s43$2,047$961 – $5,088
Critical access597$871$411 – $2,090
Ownership
For-profit289$2,121$1,028 – $4,926
Government461$1,124$507 – $2,317
Non-profit1,831$1,725$680 – $3,324
System affiliation
Part of a system2,104$1,760$736 – $3,385
Independent486$1,085$446 – $2,445

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,848
Median cash price$1,697
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

1,850 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,800 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,906; most fall between $758 and $3,385.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,850 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
$456$1,016$1,800$3,003$4,631

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($456 vs $4,631).

Of the 1,988 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,850 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,590 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,789 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,590
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here87
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded103
Hospitals that filed this code2,789

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 Rmvl Tun Ctr Vad W/Subq Port/Pmp Ctr/Prph Insj.

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, “Removal of a tunneled central IV line with port or pump (CPT 36590) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36590-removal-of-a-tunneled-central-iv-line-with-port-or-pump