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Procedure price report · Creation, revision and removal of arteriovenous fistula or vessel-to-vessel cannula for dialysis

Dialysis cannula placed between two veins

CPT 36800the billing code this page is about

Surgical insertion of a cannula connecting one vein to another to provide access for dialysis; billed as a procedure in itself.

Hospitals typically charge $3,986 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 513 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,720. Most fall between $285 and $8,010 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
513
States
47
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 513 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
$203$338$3,986$7,280$11,525

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 57× what the cheapest tenth charges ($203 vs $11,525).

How the prices are spread

$177 – $278: 74 hospitals$177$278 – $437: 56 hospitals$437 – $685: 15 hospitals$437$685 – $1,075: 19 hospitals$1,075 – $1,686: 24 hospitals$1,075$1,686 – $2,645: 25 hospitals$2,645 – $4,150: 22 hospitals$2,645$4,150 – $6,510: 92 hospitals$6,510 – $10,213: 94 hospitals$6,510$10,213 – $16,022: 44 hospitals$10,213median $3,986price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (465 of 513 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$177$27874
$278$43756
$437$68515
$685$1,07519
$1,075$1,68624
$1,686$2,64525
$2,645$4,15022
$4,150$6,51092
$6,510$10,21394
$10,213$16,02244

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,685
Median cash price$3,986
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.70×

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 $3,986.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $7,766 across 10 hospitalsWA$7,766Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $228 across 12 hospitalsIL$228Wisconsin: median $1,278 across 21 hospitalsWI$1,278Michigan: median $7,651 across 30 hospitalsMI$7,651New York: median $4,265 across 35 hospitalsNY$4,265Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $225 across 12 hospitalsOR$225Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $310 across 15 hospitalsIA$310Indiana: median $302 across 10 hospitalsIN$302Ohio: median $6,698 across 27 hospitalsOH$6,698Pennsylvania: median $6,574 across 27 hospitalsPA$6,574New Jersey: median $5,908 across 26 hospitalsNJ$5,908Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,535 across 52 hospitalsCA$7,535Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $125 across 10 hospitalsWV$125Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $9,742 across 16 hospitalsSC$9,742Oklahoma: median $200 across 21 hospitalsOK$200Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,918 across 24 hospitalsGA$1,918Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,978 across 26 hospitalsTX$5,978Florida: median $4,321 across 29 hospitalsFL$4,321
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,986. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC16$9,742+144%$7,016 – $9,742
Washington WA10$7,766+95%$286 – $8,424
Michigan MI30$7,651+92%$548 – $9,109
California CA52$7,535+89%$4,540 – $11,525
Ohio OH27$6,698+68%$539 – $20,204
Pennsylvania PA27$6,574+65%$5,688 – $8,394
Texas TX26$5,978+50%$5,309 – $6,268
New Jersey NJ26$5,908+48%$4,627 – $6,366
Florida FL29$4,321+8%$203 – $10,477
New York NY35$4,265+7%$293 – $6,397
Georgia GA24$1,918−52%$1,918 – $2,781
Wisconsin WI21$1,278−68%$707 – $1,278
Iowa IA15$310−92%$310 – $310
Indiana IN10$302−92%$228 – $4,003
Illinois IL12$228−94%$228 – $430
Oregon OR12$225−94%$216 – $225
Oklahoma OK21$200−95%$200 – $2,085
West Virginia WV10$125−97%$125 – $199
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $3,986.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care435$5,419$310 – $8,394
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$707$225 – $4,473
Ownership
For-profit56$2,085$298 – $7,590
Government65$1,054$219 – $5,426
Non-profit389$5,419$298 – $9,109
System affiliation
Part of a system444$4,832$298 – $8,436
Independent69$606$219 – $5,983

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,928
Median cash price$3,986
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

384 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,781 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,949; most fall between $285 and $9,742.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 384 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
$202$317$2,781$8,028$11,641

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 58× what the cheapest tenth charges ($202 vs $11,641).

Of the 415 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 384 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

513 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 577 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted513
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code577

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 Creation, revision and removal of arteriovenous fistula or vessel-to-vessel cannula for dialysis family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Insj Cannula Hemo Oth Purpose Spx Vein Vein.

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, “Dialysis cannula placed between two veins (CPT 36800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36800-dialysis-cannula-placed-between-two-veins