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

Dialysis access dye study with stent placement

CPT 36903the billing code this page is about

Imaging of a dialysis fistula or graft with placement of a stent, with or without balloon widening, in a narrowed segment of the access circuit.

Hospitals typically charge $15,000 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,598 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $15,643. Most fall between $8,376 and $25,025 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,598
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,598 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
$5,352$9,446$15,000$22,407$35,038

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5,352 vs $35,038).

How the prices are spread

$3,338 – $4,305: 32 hospitals$3,338$4,305 – $5,553: 60 hospitals$5,553 – $7,162: 74 hospitals$5,553$7,162 – $9,238: 147 hospitals$9,238 – $11,915: 151 hospitals$9,238$11,915 – $15,369: 283 hospitals$15,369 – $19,823: 240 hospitals$15,369$19,823 – $25,568: 236 hospitals$25,568 – $32,978: 110 hospitals$25,568$32,978 – $42,536: 107 hospitals$32,978median $15,000price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,440 of 1,598 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3,338$4,30532
$4,305$5,55360
$5,553$7,16274
$7,162$9,238147
$9,238$11,915151
$11,915$15,369283
$15,369$19,823240
$19,823$25,568236
$25,568$32,978110
$32,978$42,536107

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$15,000
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $15,000.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $20,898 across 39 hospitalsWA$20,898Idaho: median $19,614 across 11 hospitalsID$19,614Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $18,690 across 35 hospitalsMN$18,690Illinois: median $15,257 across 68 hospitalsIL$15,257Wisconsin: median $14,382 across 58 hospitalsWI$14,382Michigan: median $15,874 across 37 hospitalsMI$15,874New York: median $13,712 across 61 hospitalsNY$13,712Massachusetts: median $19,682 across 28 hospitalsMA$19,682Oregon: median $18,498 across 25 hospitalsOR$18,498Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $18,436 across 10 hospitalsSD$18,436Iowa: median $18,975 across 18 hospitalsIA$18,975Indiana: median $11,034 across 44 hospitalsIN$11,034Ohio: median $19,180 across 97 hospitalsOH$19,180Pennsylvania: median $16,365 across 82 hospitalsPA$16,365New Jersey: median $12,552 across 54 hospitalsNJ$12,552Connecticut: median $11,970 across 13 hospitalsCT$11,970Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $17,427 across 140 hospitalsCA$17,427Utah: median $19,144 across 23 hospitalsUT$19,144Colorado: median $18,652 across 33 hospitalsCO$18,652Nebraska: median $10,920 across 11 hospitalsNE$10,920Missouri: median $10,195 across 41 hospitalsMO$10,195Kentucky: median $14,064 across 15 hospitalsKY$14,064West Virginia: median $13,358 across 13 hospitalsWV$13,358Virginia: median $15,671 across 38 hospitalsVA$15,671Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $11,349 across 30 hospitalsAZ$11,349New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $19,026 across 16 hospitalsKS$19,026Arkansas: median $5,541 across 12 hospitalsAR$5,541Tennessee: median $6,130 across 30 hospitalsTN$6,130North Carolina: median $15,961 across 39 hospitalsNC$15,961South Carolina: median $16,525 across 30 hospitalsSC$16,525Oklahoma: median $12,700 across 19 hospitalsOK$12,700Louisiana: median $8,843 across 33 hospitalsLA$8,843Mississippi: median $7,878 across 28 hospitalsMS$7,878Alabama: median $13,415 across 17 hospitalsAL$13,415Georgia: median $11,905 across 57 hospitalsGA$11,905Hawaii: median $8,269 across 10 hospitalsHI$8,269Texas: median $18,760 across 139 hospitalsTX$18,760Florida: median $15,433 across 86 hospitalsFL$15,433
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $15,000. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Washington WA39$20,898+39%$7,906 – $29,391
Massachusetts MA28$19,682+31%$12,804 – $32,546
Idaho ID11$19,614+31%$16,000 – $19,614
Ohio OH97$19,180+28%$13,141 – $23,255
Utah UT23$19,144+28%$19,144 – $22,523
Kansas KS16$19,026+27%$7,815 – $35,693
Iowa IA18$18,975+26%$12,488 – $21,671
Texas TX139$18,760+25%$9,231 – $31,064
Minnesota MN35$18,690+25%$12,278 – $20,447
Colorado CO33$18,652+24%$10,102 – $21,803
Oregon OR25$18,498+23%$2,432 – $26,959
South Dakota SD10$18,436+23%$18,436 – $26,658
California CA140$17,427+16%$10,217 – $35,670
South Carolina SC30$16,525+10%$9,530 – $16,525
Pennsylvania PA82$16,365+9%$6,685 – $25,025
North Carolina NC39$15,961+6%$8,499 – $21,832
Michigan MI37$15,874+6%$10,988 – $35,038
Virginia VA38$15,671+4%$12,313 – $18,261
Florida FL86$15,433+3%$10,758 – $36,022
Illinois IL68$15,257+2%$5,608 – $26,270
Wisconsin WI58$14,382−4%$1,712 – $18,927
Kentucky KY15$14,064−6%$8,372 – $45,537
New York NY61$13,712−9%$11,794 – $24,534
Alabama AL17$13,415−11%$11,385 – $21,272
West Virginia WV13$13,358−11%$5,465 – $24,320
Oklahoma OK19$12,700−15%$8,485 – $15,604
New Jersey NJ54$12,552−16%$4,881 – $18,862
Connecticut CT13$11,970−20%$7,079 – $18,934
Georgia GA57$11,905−21%$9,207 – $20,413
Arizona AZ30$11,349−24%$7,947 – $37,141
Indiana IN44$11,034−26%$6,512 – $26,346
Nebraska NE11$10,920−27%$8,364 – $16,469
Missouri MO41$10,195−32%$6,407 – $21,967
Louisiana LA33$8,843−41%$6,015 – $13,629
Hawaii HI10$8,269−45%$5,688 – $10,937
Mississippi MS28$7,878−47%$4,301 – $15,301
Tennessee TN30$6,130−59%$5,352 – $10,419
Arkansas AR12$5,541−63%$3,955 – $12,620
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not 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 $15,000.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,440$15,125$8,550 – $25,054
Children’s27$13,141$7,906 – $42,536
Critical access122$14,382$6,420 – $20,601
Ownership
For-profit173$19,247$10,362 – $36,396
Government199$13,420$7,537 – $21,832
Non-profit1,217$15,000$8,364 – $23,874
System affiliation
Part of a system1,400$15,145$8,485 – $24,560
Independent198$14,442$7,704 – $25,444

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$26,264
Median cash price$15,000
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

1,240 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $16,338 and the average of the middle 60% is $16,437; most fall between $9,058 and $25,470.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,240 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
$5,867$10,186$16,338$22,825$35,500

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5,867 vs $35,500).

Of the 1,394 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,240 gave a usable cash price; 96 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,598 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,812 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,598
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here149
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,812

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 W/Tcat Plmt IV Stent.

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 access dye study with stent placement (CPT 36903) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36903-dialysis-access-dye-study-with-stent-placement