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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures

Mechanical clearing of a blockage inside a catheter

CPT 36596the billing code this page is about

Mechanical removal of clot or other obstructive material from inside the lumen of a central venous access device, working through the device itself.

Hospitals typically charge $1,656 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,246 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,735. Most fall between $745 and $3,143 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,246
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 1,246 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
$430$952$1,656$2,722$4,755

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($430 vs $4,755).

How the prices are spread

$265 – $363: 44 hospitals$265$363 – $496: 60 hospitals$496 – $679: 64 hospitals$496$679 – $929: 75 hospitals$929 – $1,270: 145 hospitals$929$1,270 – $1,738: 207 hospitals$1,738 – $2,377: 219 hospitals$1,738$2,377 – $3,252: 131 hospitals$3,252 – $4,448: 89 hospitals$3,252$4,448 – $6,085: 91 hospitals$4,448median $1,656price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,125 of 1,246 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$265$36344
$363$49660
$496$67964
$679$92975
$929$1,270145
$1,270$1,738207
$1,738$2,377219
$2,377$3,252131
$3,252$4,44889
$4,448$6,08591

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,608
Median cash price$1,656
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

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 $1,656.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,693 across 35 hospitalsWA$1,693Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 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 $1,223 across 14 hospitalsMN$1,223Illinois: median $1,584 across 58 hospitalsIL$1,584Wisconsin: median $1,085 across 43 hospitalsWI$1,085Michigan: median $1,303 across 34 hospitalsMI$1,303New York: median $1,965 across 49 hospitalsNY$1,965Massachusetts: median $2,028 across 17 hospitalsMA$2,028Oregon: median $1,709 across 19 hospitalsOR$1,709Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $645 across 19 hospitalsIA$645Indiana: median $697 across 35 hospitalsIN$697Ohio: median $1,820 across 88 hospitalsOH$1,820Pennsylvania: median $1,790 across 64 hospitalsPA$1,790New Jersey: median $2,073 across 43 hospitalsNJ$2,073Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,272 across 111 hospitalsCA$2,272Utah: median $1,210 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,210Colorado: median $1,295 across 30 hospitalsCO$1,295Nebraska: median $1,505 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,505Missouri: median $2,114 across 21 hospitalsMO$2,114Kentucky: median $6,238 across 16 hospitalsKY$6,238West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $872 across 28 hospitalsVA$872Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,471 across 27 hospitalsAZ$1,471New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $1,034 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,034Tennessee: median $461 across 28 hospitalsTN$461North Carolina: median $1,097 across 29 hospitalsNC$1,097South Carolina: median $2,525 across 22 hospitalsSC$2,525Oklahoma: median $1,516 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,516Louisiana: median $907 across 22 hospitalsLA$907Mississippi: median $570 across 12 hospitalsMS$570Alabama: median $1,583 across 11 hospitalsAL$1,583Georgia: median $2,533 across 51 hospitalsGA$2,533Hawaii: median $1,585 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,585Texas: median $1,405 across 108 hospitalsTX$1,405Florida: median $2,150 across 57 hospitalsFL$2,150
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,656. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY16$6,238+277%$1,460 – $8,365
Georgia GA51$2,533+53%$1,933 – $4,657
South Carolina SC22$2,525+52%$2,355 – $4,055
California CA111$2,272+37%$1,316 – $4,021
Florida FL57$2,150+30%$1,519 – $4,765
Missouri MO21$2,114+28%$1,259 – $2,409
New Jersey NJ43$2,073+25%$1,719 – $5,339
Massachusetts MA17$2,028+22%$1,462 – $4,087
New York NY49$1,965+19%$1,608 – $3,361
Ohio OH88$1,820+10%$1,228 – $3,266
Pennsylvania PA64$1,790+8%$437 – $3,360
Oregon OR19$1,709+3%$208 – $2,570
Washington WA35$1,693+2%$764 – $2,334
Hawaii HI10$1,585−4%$135 – $1,845
Illinois IL58$1,584−4%$550 – $3,122
Alabama AL11$1,583−4%$1,011 – $1,860
Oklahoma OK12$1,516−8%$1,020 – $2,049
Nebraska NE14$1,505−9%$1,008 – $1,974
Arizona AZ27$1,471−11%$722 – $7,142
Texas TX108$1,405−15%$1,169 – $2,336
Michigan MI34$1,303−21%$709 – $6,042
Colorado CO30$1,295−22%$972 – $1,909
Minnesota MN14$1,223−26%$107 – $2,313
Utah UT23$1,210−27%$1,210 – $1,423
North Carolina NC29$1,097−34%$412 – $2,046
Wisconsin WI43$1,085−34%$651 – $2,161
Arkansas AR10$1,034−38%$307 – $1,366
Louisiana LA22$907−45%$545 – $1,173
Virginia VA28$872−47%$461 – $1,326
Indiana IN35$697−58%$431 – $2,113
Iowa IA19$645−61%$298 – $2,004
Mississippi MS12$570−66%$448 – $872
Tennessee TN28$461−72%$350 – $1,088
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,656.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,103$1,698$815 – $3,172
Children’s34$1,316$639 – $3,241
Critical access101$1,210$492 – $2,602
Ownership
For-profit123$2,028$1,002 – $5,063
Government145$1,559$550 – $2,124
Non-profit970$1,656$745 – $3,122
System affiliation
Part of a system1,105$1,682$760 – $3,241
Independent141$1,470$517 – $2,409

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,810
Median cash price$1,656
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

986 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,636 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,739; most fall between $745 and $3,156.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 986 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
$411$972$1,636$2,726$4,657

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($411 vs $4,657).

Of the 1,075 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 986 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 1 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

1,246 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,379 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,246
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
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 — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code1,379

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 Mchnl Rmvl Intral Obstr Cv Dev Thru Dev Lumen.

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, “Mechanical clearing of a blockage inside a catheter (CPT 36596) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36596-mechanical-clearing-of-a-blockage-inside-a-catheter