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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Umbilical artery catheter in a newborn

CPT 36660the billing code this page is about

Placement of a catheter into the umbilical artery of a newborn for blood sampling, monitoring, or giving fluids and medication.

Hospitals typically charge $268 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 954 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $322. Most fall between $122 and $737 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
954
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 954 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
$91$146$268$596$1,288

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($91 vs $1,288).

How the prices are spread

$57 – $82: 31 hospitals$57$82 – $119: 102 hospitals$119 – $172: 151 hospitals$119$172 – $250: 125 hospitals$250 – $361: 111 hospitals$250$361 – $522: 91 hospitals$522 – $755: 116 hospitals$522$755 – $1,092: 70 hospitals$1,092 – $1,580: 32 hospitals$1,092$1,580 – $2,285: 31 hospitals$1,580median $268price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (860 of 954 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$57$8231
$82$119102
$119$172151
$172$250125
$250$361111
$361$52291
$522$755116
$755$1,09270
$1,092$1,58032
$1,580$2,28531

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $268.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 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 $239 across 41 hospitalsWA$239Idaho: median $863 across 10 hospitalsID$863Montana: 4 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 $242 across 23 hospitalsMN$242Illinois: median $350 across 45 hospitalsIL$350Wisconsin: median $409 across 46 hospitalsWI$409Michigan: median $162 across 29 hospitalsMI$162New York: median $207 across 27 hospitalsNY$207Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $279 across 33 hospitalsOR$279Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $183 across 27 hospitalsIA$183Indiana: median $164 across 13 hospitalsIN$164Ohio: median $164 across 41 hospitalsOH$164Pennsylvania: median $150 across 24 hospitalsPA$150New Jersey: median $4,627 across 16 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $152 across 58 hospitalsCA$152Utah: median $330 across 21 hospitalsUT$330Colorado: median $163 across 18 hospitalsCO$163Nebraska: median $145 across 18 hospitalsNE$145Missouri: median $274 across 27 hospitalsMO$274Kentucky: median $108 across 19 hospitalsKY$108West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,162 across 14 hospitalsVA$1,162Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $162 across 10 hospitalsNM$162Kansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $197 across 19 hospitalsTN$197North Carolina: median $115 across 26 hospitalsNC$115South Carolina: median $618 across 19 hospitalsSC$618Oklahoma: median $113 across 28 hospitalsOK$113Louisiana: median $126 across 16 hospitalsLA$126Mississippi: median $214 across 20 hospitalsMS$214Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $360 across 51 hospitalsGA$360Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $808 across 66 hospitalsTX$808Florida: median $530 across 43 hospitalsFL$530
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $268. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ16$4,627+1629%$3,786 – $5,741
Virginia VA14$1,162+334%$753 – $3,078
Idaho ID10$863+222%$446 – $1,885
Texas TX66$808+202%$385 – $974
South Carolina SC19$618+131%$491 – $642
Florida FL43$530+98%$203 – $2,285
Wisconsin WI46$409+53%$192 – $579
Georgia GA51$360+35%$106 – $737
Illinois IL45$350+31%$145 – $851
Utah UT21$330+23%$330 – $330
Oregon OR33$279+4%$122 – $1,288
Missouri MO27$274+2%$146 – $646
Minnesota MN23$242−10%$120 – $575
Washington WA41$239−11%$166 – $461
Mississippi MS20$214−20%$181 – $445
New York NY27$207−23%$111 – $381
Tennessee TN19$197−27%$32 – $268
Iowa IA27$183−32%$171 – $257
Indiana IN13$164−39%$86 – $287
Ohio OH41$164−39%$161 – $648
Colorado CO18$163−39%$97 – $386
Michigan MI29$162−39%$85 – $458
New Mexico NM10$162−39%$116 – $202
California CA58$152−43%$146 – $656
Pennsylvania PA24$150−44%$43 – $1,424
Nebraska NE18$145−46%$130 – $237
Louisiana LA16$126−53%$68 – $259
North Carolina NC26$115−57%$82 – $380
Oklahoma OK28$113−58%$113 – $592
Kentucky KY19$108−59%$28 – $188
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not 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 $268.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care771$268$119 – $751
Children’s31$531$239 – $1,050
Critical access150$257$140 – $579
Ownership
For-profit83$348$118 – $895
Government142$204$115 – $596
Non-profit727$294$130 – $746
System affiliation
Part of a system814$271$124 – $737
Independent140$258$118 – $662

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$440
Median cash price$268
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

762 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $233 and the average of the middle 60% is $289; most fall between $121 and $635.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 762 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
$94$145$233$544$1,024

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $1,024).

Of the 826 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 762 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

954 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,070 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted954
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
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 — excluded75
Hospitals that filed this code1,070

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 Catheterization Umbilical Newborn Art Dx/Therapy.

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, “Umbilical artery catheter in a newborn (CPT 36660) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36660-umbilical-artery-catheter-in-a-newborn