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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Artery catheter for long-term drug infusion

CPT 36640the billing code this page is about

Through a surgical incision, a catheter is placed into an artery so medication such as chemotherapy can be infused over an extended period.

Hospitals typically charge $2,293 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 339 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,270. Most fall between $228 and $5,266 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
339
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 339 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
$176$294$2,293$4,041$7,946

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 45× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $7,946).

How the prices are spread

$139 – $216: 45 hospitals$139$216 – $337: 36 hospitals$337 – $526: 27 hospitals$337$526 – $820: 5 hospitals$820 – $1,278: 12 hospitals$820$1,278 – $1,992: 6 hospitals$1,992 – $3,106: 33 hospitals$1,992$3,106 – $4,841: 86 hospitals$4,841 – $7,547: 27 hospitals$4,841$7,547 – $11,764: 38 hospitals$7,547median $2,293price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (315 of 339 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$139$21645
$216$33736
$337$52627
$526$8205
$820$1,27812
$1,278$1,9926
$1,992$3,10633
$3,106$4,84186
$4,841$7,54727
$7,547$11,76438

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,226
Median cash price$2,293
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.71×

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 $2,293.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $188 across 14 hospitalsIL$188Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $346 across 24 hospitalsMI$346New York: median $3,725 across 23 hospitalsNY$3,725Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $294 across 14 hospitalsIA$294Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $11,764 across 19 hospitalsOH$11,764Pennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $4,085 across 25 hospitalsNJ$4,085Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,946 across 37 hospitalsCA$7,946Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $195 across 16 hospitalsOK$195Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,092 across 26 hospitalsGA$2,092Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,594 across 27 hospitalsTX$3,594Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,293. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH19$11,764+413%$522 – $11,764
California CA37$7,946+247%$2,293 – $7,946
New Jersey NJ25$4,085+78%$3,484 – $5,741
New York NY23$3,725+62%$325 – $3,725
Texas TX27$3,594+57%$1,115 – $3,594
Georgia GA26$2,092−9%$2,092 – $3,483
Michigan MI24$346−85%$346 – $3,132
Iowa IA14$294−87%$294 – $294
Oklahoma OK16$195−92%$195 – $2,028
Illinois IL14$188−92%$176 – $2,378
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $2,293.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care292$3,106$294 – $5,419
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access39$294$142 – $4,926
Ownership
For-profit39$2,818$228 – $6,332
Government48$804$209 – $3,725
Non-profit251$2,293$256 – $5,473
System affiliation
Part of a system282$2,293$271 – $5,741
Independent57$750$193 – $3,875

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,667
Median cash price$2,293
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

220 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,092 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,897; most fall between $212 and $5,473.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 220 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
$176$286$2,092$3,679$7,946

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 45× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $7,946).

Of the 229 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 220 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

339 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 365 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted339
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code365

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 PR Insert Cath,Art,Cutdown,Prolong.

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, “Artery catheter for long-term drug infusion (CPT 36640) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36640-artery-catheter-for-long-term-drug-infusion