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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures

Clot clearing of an external dialysis cannula

CPT 36860the billing code this page is about

Procedure to clear clot from an external dialysis cannula or shunt without using a balloon catheter.

Hospitals typically charge $1,472 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 503 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,459. Most fall between $438 and $2,846 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
503
States
46
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 503 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
$254$562$1,472$2,223$3,702

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($254 vs $3,702).

How the prices are spread

$180 – $255: 34 hospitals$180$255 – $360: 34 hospitals$360 – $510: 29 hospitals$360$510 – $722: 41 hospitals$722 – $1,022: 27 hospitals$722$1,022 – $1,447: 55 hospitals$1,447 – $2,047: 93 hospitals$1,447$2,047 – $2,898: 75 hospitals$2,898 – $4,102: 54 hospitals$2,898$4,102 – $5,806: 27 hospitals$4,102median $1,472price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (469 of 503 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$180$25534
$255$36034
$360$51029
$510$72241
$722$1,02227
$1,022$1,44755
$1,447$2,04793
$2,047$2,89875
$2,898$4,10254
$4,102$5,80627

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,608
Median cash price$1,472
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $1,472.

Alaska: 5 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: median $2,940 across 12 hospitalsWA$2,940Idaho: 6 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 $346 across 14 hospitalsIL$346Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $1,838 across 28 hospitalsNY$1,838Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,380 across 13 hospitalsOR$3,380Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $597 across 14 hospitalsIA$597Indiana: median $562 across 15 hospitalsIN$562Ohio: median $3,617 across 31 hospitalsOH$3,617Pennsylvania: median $2,106 across 23 hospitalsPA$2,106New Jersey: median $3,786 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,055 across 71 hospitalsCA$2,055Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $759 across 13 hospitalsMO$759Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,351 across 11 hospitalsVA$1,351Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,588 across 16 hospitalsNC$1,588South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $180 across 18 hospitalsOK$180Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,472 across 51 hospitalsTX$1,472Florida: median $1,102 across 29 hospitalsFL$1,102
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,472. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+157%$1,719 – $5,419
Ohio OH31$3,617+146%$656 – $5,806
Oregon OR13$3,380+130%$438 – $3,545
Washington WA12$2,940+100%$1,628 – $3,687
Pennsylvania PA23$2,106+43%$1,300 – $3,345
California CA71$2,055+40%$1,491 – $2,277
New York NY28$1,838+25%$1,317 – $1,965
North Carolina NC16$1,588+8%$480 – $1,588
Texas TX51$1,4720%$1,405 – $3,374
Virginia VA11$1,351−8%$1,351 – $1,798
Florida FL29$1,102−25%$356 – $1,867
Missouri MO13$759−48%$281 – $2,403
Iowa IA14$597−59%$597 – $597
Indiana IN15$562−62%$254 – $660
Illinois IL14$346−77%$254 – $1,139
Oklahoma OK18$180−88%$180 – $1,232
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,472.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care446$1,495$522 – $2,802
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access46$872$254 – $3,125
Ownership
For-profit46$1,405$333 – $3,542
Government68$1,400$410 – $1,838
Non-profit387$1,574$480 – $3,041
System affiliation
Part of a system448$1,518$480 – $2,940
Independent55$698$314 – $1,987

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,435
Median cash price$1,472
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

393 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,472 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,541; most fall between $429 and $3,125.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 393 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
$254$597$1,472$2,403$3,690

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($254 vs $3,690).

Of the 435 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 393 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

503 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 559 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted503
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
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 — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code559

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 PR Ext Cannula Declott WO Balloon Cath.

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, “Clot clearing of an external dialysis cannula (CPT 36860) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36860-clot-clearing-of-an-external-dialysis-cannula