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Procedure price report · Other vascular bypass and shunt, not heart

Creation of a liver shunt through a vein (TIPS)

CPT 37182the billing code this page is about

A catheter-based procedure that builds a channel inside the liver between the portal and hepatic veins, usually with a stent, to lower pressure in the portal circulation. Covers the initial creation.

Hospitals typically charge $7,977 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,417 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $8,549. Most fall between $3,419 and $17,509 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,417
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 1,417 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
$2,023$3,785$7,977$14,534$25,207

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,023 vs $25,207).

How the prices are spread

$1,316 – $1,823: 58 hospitals$1,316$1,823 – $2,524: 61 hospitals$2,524 – $3,496: 107 hospitals$2,524$3,496 – $4,841: 168 hospitals$4,841 – $6,704: 148 hospitals$4,841$6,704 – $9,285: 168 hospitals$9,285 – $12,859: 213 hospitals$9,285$12,859 – $17,808: 147 hospitals$17,808 – $24,662: 132 hospitals$17,808$24,662 – $34,155: 78 hospitals$24,662median $7,977price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,280 of 1,417 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,316$1,82358
$1,823$2,52461
$2,524$3,496107
$3,496$4,841168
$4,841$6,704148
$6,704$9,285168
$9,285$12,859213
$12,859$17,808147
$17,808$24,662132
$24,662$34,15578

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$18,729
Median cash price$7,977
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.43×

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 $7,977.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $10,350 across 33 hospitalsWA$10,350Idaho: median $23,450 across 12 hospitalsID$23,450Montana: median $1,226 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,226North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $8,623 across 27 hospitalsMN$8,623Illinois: median $7,068 across 58 hospitalsIL$7,068Wisconsin: median $6,961 across 54 hospitalsWI$6,961Michigan: median $9,416 across 50 hospitalsMI$9,416New York: median $2,890 across 46 hospitalsNY$2,890Massachusetts: median $5,999 across 27 hospitalsMA$5,999Oregon: median $9,471 across 23 hospitalsOR$9,471Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $2,106 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,106Indiana: median $6,051 across 44 hospitalsIN$6,051Ohio: median $10,536 across 83 hospitalsOH$10,536Pennsylvania: median $9,622 across 57 hospitalsPA$9,622New Jersey: median $5,419 across 35 hospitalsNJ$5,419Connecticut: median $11,522 across 12 hospitalsCT$11,522Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $8,737 across 136 hospitalsCA$8,737Utah: median $22,067 across 26 hospitalsUT$22,067Colorado: median $9,149 across 31 hospitalsCO$9,149Nebraska: median $1,733 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,733Missouri: median $5,086 across 30 hospitalsMO$5,086Kentucky: median $14,274 across 18 hospitalsKY$14,274West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,336 across 32 hospitalsVA$3,336Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,089 across 29 hospitalsAZ$4,089New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $5,590 across 11 hospitalsAR$5,590Tennessee: median $3,503 across 31 hospitalsTN$3,503North Carolina: median $4,015 across 30 hospitalsNC$4,015South Carolina: median $8,018 across 30 hospitalsSC$8,018Oklahoma: median $2,985 across 20 hospitalsOK$2,985Louisiana: median $5,431 across 22 hospitalsLA$5,431Mississippi: median $5,344 across 22 hospitalsMS$5,344Alabama: median $11,991 across 15 hospitalsAL$11,991Georgia: median $16,834 across 52 hospitalsGA$16,834Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,716 across 122 hospitalsTX$6,716Florida: median $13,395 across 77 hospitalsFL$13,395
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $7,977. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID12$23,450+194%$10,355 – $24,000
Utah UT26$22,067+177%$22,067 – $25,961
Georgia GA52$16,834+111%$7,913 – $30,645
Kentucky KY18$14,274+79%$10,056 – $18,998
Florida FL77$13,395+68%$6,613 – $19,039
Alabama AL15$11,991+50%$1,516 – $16,361
Connecticut CT12$11,522+44%$3,823 – $39,353
Ohio OH83$10,536+32%$6,236 – $16,434
Washington WA33$10,350+30%$3,432 – $12,298
Pennsylvania PA57$9,622+21%$6,588 – $20,213
Oregon OR23$9,471+19%$1,448 – $28,410
Michigan MI50$9,416+18%$2,965 – $25,207
Colorado CO31$9,149+15%$6,038 – $17,055
California CA136$8,737+10%$3,785 – $14,432
Minnesota MN27$8,623+8%$4,201 – $9,139
South Carolina SC30$8,018+1%$3,527 – $10,892
Illinois IL58$7,068−11%$2,275 – $14,651
Wisconsin WI54$6,961−13%$3,517 – $11,055
Texas TX122$6,716−16%$4,375 – $17,509
Indiana IN44$6,051−24%$3,695 – $13,439
Massachusetts MA27$5,999−25%$2,884 – $15,971
Arkansas AR11$5,590−30%$3,230 – $9,754
Louisiana LA22$5,431−32%$2,857 – $9,614
New Jersey NJ35$5,419−32%$965 – $18,105
Mississippi MS22$5,344−33%$3,516 – $7,005
Missouri MO30$5,086−36%$4,106 – $10,590
Arizona AZ29$4,089−49%$2,579 – $57,544
North Carolina NC30$4,015−50%$2,522 – $4,182
Tennessee TN31$3,503−56%$3,419 – $6,178
Virginia VA32$3,336−58%$2,605 – $7,924
Oklahoma OK20$2,985−63%$1,712 – $5,250
New York NY46$2,890−64%$1,463 – $18,729
Iowa IA19$2,106−74%$2,106 – $17,407
Nebraska NE14$1,733−78%$1,709 – $10,973
Montana MT10$1,226−85%$1,226 – $2,586
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not 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 $7,977.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,270$8,063$3,419 – $17,399
Children’s33$10,432$4,649 – $20,619
Critical access106$5,970$2,586 – $15,003
Ownership
For-profit148$12,949$3,785 – $30,645
Government154$6,379$2,738 – $15,410
Non-profit1,107$7,924$3,353 – $16,060
System affiliation
Part of a system1,264$7,977$3,498 – $17,055
Independent153$7,824$2,131 – $20,504

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$14,274
Median cash price$7,977
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

1,136 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $7,793 and the average of the middle 60% is $8,217; most fall between $3,326 and $16,597.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,136 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
$1,945$3,527$7,793$13,433$24,632

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,945 vs $24,632).

Of the 1,213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,136 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,417 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,537 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,417
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
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 — excluded58
Hospitals that filed this code1,537

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 vascular bypass and shunt, not heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Tips.

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, “Creation of a liver shunt through a vein (TIPS) (CPT 37182) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-37182-creation-of-a-liver-shunt-through-a-vein-tips