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

X-ray dye study of a dialysis fistula or graft

CPT 36901the billing code this page is about

Needle access into a dialysis fistula or graft with contrast dye and X-ray imaging to look at the access and its veins, with no treatment performed.

Hospitals typically charge $1,833 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,862 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,999. Most fall between $954 and $3,751 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,862
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,862 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
$586$1,110$1,833$3,209$5,655

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($586 vs $5,655).

How the prices are spread

$323 – $439: 26 hospitals$323$439 – $597: 79 hospitals$597 – $811: 94 hospitals$597$811 – $1,103: 170 hospitals$1,103 – $1,499: 239 hospitals$1,103$1,499 – $2,039: 356 hospitals$2,039 – $2,772: 214 hospitals$2,039$2,772 – $3,769: 219 hospitals$3,769 – $5,124: 132 hospitals$3,769$5,124 – $6,967: 147 hospitals$5,124median $1,833price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,676 of 1,862 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$323$43926
$439$59779
$597$81194
$811$1,103170
$1,103$1,499239
$1,499$2,039356
$2,039$2,772214
$2,772$3,769219
$3,769$5,124132
$5,124$6,967147

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,608
Median cash price$1,833
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.14×

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 $1,833.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,686 across 44 hospitalsWA$1,686Idaho: median $3,542 across 12 hospitalsID$3,542Montana: median $1,128 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,128North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,741 across 36 hospitalsMN$1,741Illinois: median $1,761 across 79 hospitalsIL$1,761Wisconsin: median $1,394 across 62 hospitalsWI$1,394Michigan: median $1,337 across 65 hospitalsMI$1,337New York: median $1,923 across 71 hospitalsNY$1,923Massachusetts: median $2,016 across 32 hospitalsMA$2,016Oregon: median $2,088 across 31 hospitalsOR$2,088Nevada: median $1,712 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,712Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,758 across 10 hospitalsSD$4,758Iowa: median $1,632 across 26 hospitalsIA$1,632Indiana: median $1,060 across 52 hospitalsIN$1,060Ohio: median $2,475 across 107 hospitalsOH$2,475Pennsylvania: median $2,318 across 103 hospitalsPA$2,318New Jersey: median $2,130 across 55 hospitalsNJ$2,130Connecticut: median $1,912 across 15 hospitalsCT$1,912Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,067 across 151 hospitalsCA$3,067Utah: median $5,277 across 26 hospitalsUT$5,277Colorado: median $2,669 across 33 hospitalsCO$2,669Nebraska: median $986 across 20 hospitalsNE$986Missouri: median $1,568 across 47 hospitalsMO$1,568Kentucky: median $1,228 across 22 hospitalsKY$1,228West Virginia: median $1,283 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,283Virginia: median $1,672 across 39 hospitalsVA$1,672Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,873 across 31 hospitalsAZ$1,873New Mexico: median $1,723 across 11 hospitalsNM$1,723Kansas: median $1,483 across 17 hospitalsKS$1,483Arkansas: median $1,057 across 19 hospitalsAR$1,057Tennessee: median $737 across 40 hospitalsTN$737North Carolina: median $895 across 51 hospitalsNC$895South Carolina: median $1,385 across 36 hospitalsSC$1,385Oklahoma: median $1,034 across 31 hospitalsOK$1,034Louisiana: median $1,014 across 35 hospitalsLA$1,014Mississippi: median $746 across 29 hospitalsMS$746Alabama: median $1,693 across 19 hospitalsAL$1,693Georgia: median $1,904 across 61 hospitalsGA$1,904Hawaii: median $972 across 11 hospitalsHI$972Texas: median $3,182 across 155 hospitalsTX$3,182Florida: median $2,265 across 95 hospitalsFL$2,265
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,833. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT26$5,277+188%$5,277 – $6,208
South Dakota SD10$4,758+160%$3,865 – $4,758
Idaho ID12$3,542+93%$1,485 – $4,500
Texas TX155$3,182+74%$1,541 – $4,646
California CA151$3,067+67%$1,176 – $5,426
Colorado CO33$2,669+46%$1,296 – $3,405
Ohio OH107$2,475+35%$1,520 – $5,427
Pennsylvania PA103$2,318+26%$1,433 – $5,051
Florida FL95$2,265+24%$1,507 – $5,554
New Jersey NJ55$2,130+16%$1,721 – $5,339
Oregon OR31$2,088+14%$738 – $3,173
Massachusetts MA32$2,016+10%$1,341 – $3,633
New York NY71$1,923+5%$695 – $3,361
Connecticut CT15$1,912+4%$1,189 – $2,974
Georgia GA61$1,904+4%$1,465 – $2,025
Arizona AZ31$1,873+2%$1,175 – $6,490
Illinois IL79$1,761−4%$862 – $3,781
Minnesota MN36$1,741−5%$1,483 – $2,568
New Mexico NM11$1,723−6%$940 – $2,212
Nevada NV11$1,712−7%$496 – $3,918
Alabama AL19$1,693−8%$1,124 – $3,326
Washington WA44$1,686−8%$934 – $2,849
Virginia VA39$1,672−9%$900 – $2,541
Iowa IA26$1,632−11%$870 – $2,279
Missouri MO47$1,568−14%$1,040 – $2,569
Kansas KS17$1,483−19%$916 – $2,177
Wisconsin WI62$1,394−24%$917 – $2,136
South Carolina SC36$1,385−24%$1,072 – $6,025
Michigan MI65$1,337−27%$272 – $2,165
West Virginia WV14$1,283−30%$1,164 – $5,880
Kentucky KY22$1,228−33%$890 – $2,529
Montana MT10$1,128−38%$1,106 – $1,234
Indiana IN52$1,060−42%$627 – $3,816
Arkansas AR19$1,057−42%$659 – $1,780
Oklahoma OK31$1,034−44%$671 – $2,975
Louisiana LA35$1,014−45%$577 – $1,827
Nebraska NE20$986−46%$857 – $1,133
Hawaii HI11$972−47%$794 – $2,406
North Carolina NC51$895−51%$535 – $1,888
Mississippi MS29$746−59%$465 – $1,200
Tennessee TN40$737−60%$302 – $941
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $1,833.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,662$1,833$986 – $3,779
Children’s40$2,670$1,292 – $4,794
Critical access151$1,542$794 – $3,542
Ownership
For-profit212$2,130$1,078 – $5,554
Government226$1,495$587 – $2,872
Non-profit1,415$1,832$1,012 – $3,706
System affiliation
Part of a system1,617$1,838$990 – $3,786
Independent245$1,759$694 – $3,606

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,273
Median cash price$1,833
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

1,415 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,904 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,102; most fall between $1,012 and $3,809.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,415 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
$625$1,145$1,904$3,293$5,655

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($625 vs $5,655).

Of the 1,518 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,415 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,862 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,003 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,862
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code2,003

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 Intro Cath Dialysis Circuit Dx Angrph Fluor S&I.

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, “X-ray dye study of a dialysis fistula or graft (CPT 36901) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36901-x-ray-dye-study-of-a-dialysis-fistula-or-graft