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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Clot-dissolving infusion into an artery, first day

CPT 37211the billing code this page is about

Placement of a catheter into an artery and infusion of clot-dissolving medication, including imaging and catheter checks. Covers the first day of treatment only; later days are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $5,139 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,808 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,144. Most fall between $2,136 and $8,964 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,808
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 1,808 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
$1,156$2,641$5,139$7,785$12,677

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,156 vs $12,677).

How the prices are spread

$688 – $947: 45 hospitals$688$947 – $1,303: 66 hospitals$1,303 – $1,793: 93 hospitals$1,303$1,793 – $2,468: 129 hospitals$2,468 – $3,398: 166 hospitals$2,468$3,398 – $4,676: 231 hospitals$4,676 – $6,437: 346 hospitals$4,676$6,437 – $8,860: 270 hospitals$8,860 – $12,195: 179 hospitals$8,860$12,195 – $16,785: 111 hospitals$12,195median $5,139price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,636 of 1,808 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$688$94745
$947$1,30366
$1,303$1,79393
$1,793$2,468129
$2,468$3,398166
$3,398$4,676231
$4,676$6,437346
$6,437$8,860270
$8,860$12,195179
$12,195$16,785111

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,685
Median cash price$5,139
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $5,139.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,081 across 42 hospitalsWA$5,081Idaho: median $5,729 across 12 hospitalsID$5,729Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,331 across 31 hospitalsMN$5,331Illinois: median $4,635 across 79 hospitalsIL$4,635Wisconsin: median $2,176 across 61 hospitalsWI$2,176Michigan: median $4,169 across 57 hospitalsMI$4,169New York: median $6,397 across 65 hospitalsNY$6,397Massachusetts: median $4,772 across 24 hospitalsMA$4,772Oregon: median $5,656 across 33 hospitalsOR$5,656Nevada: median $2,445 across 10 hospitalsNV$2,445Wyoming: 5 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 $6,566 across 21 hospitalsIA$6,566Indiana: median $6,084 across 50 hospitalsIN$6,084Ohio: median $8,035 across 100 hospitalsOH$8,035Pennsylvania: median $6,574 across 88 hospitalsPA$6,574New Jersey: median $6,311 across 56 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: median $5,621 across 15 hospitalsCT$5,621Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,514 across 143 hospitalsCA$5,514Utah: median $5,636 across 26 hospitalsUT$5,636Colorado: median $5,627 across 36 hospitalsCO$5,627Nebraska: median $2,580 across 16 hospitalsNE$2,580Missouri: median $3,928 across 44 hospitalsMO$3,928Kentucky: median $3,538 across 17 hospitalsKY$3,538West Virginia: median $3,538 across 19 hospitalsWV$3,538Virginia: median $5,355 across 40 hospitalsVA$5,355Maryland: 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 $2,649 across 33 hospitalsAZ$2,649New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,113 across 21 hospitalsKS$2,113Arkansas: median $1,393 across 15 hospitalsAR$1,393Tennessee: median $1,516 across 40 hospitalsTN$1,516North Carolina: median $4,696 across 50 hospitalsNC$4,696South Carolina: median $4,284 across 38 hospitalsSC$4,284Oklahoma: median $3,662 across 31 hospitalsOK$3,662Louisiana: median $3,203 across 33 hospitalsLA$3,203Mississippi: median $3,037 across 27 hospitalsMS$3,037Alabama: median $6,223 across 23 hospitalsAL$6,223Georgia: median $6,053 across 63 hospitalsGA$6,053Hawaii: median $4,595 across 11 hospitalsHI$4,595Texas: median $5,362 across 165 hospitalsTX$5,362Florida: median $7,020 across 101 hospitalsFL$7,020
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,139. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH100$8,035+56%$3,551 – $15,973
Florida FL101$7,020+37%$2,880 – $13,514
Pennsylvania PA88$6,574+28%$3,654 – $10,382
Iowa IA21$6,566+28%$1,110 – $8,429
New York NY65$6,397+24%$1,108 – $11,695
New Jersey NJ56$6,311+23%$4,881 – $8,383
Alabama AL23$6,223+21%$3,843 – $6,656
Indiana IN50$6,084+18%$2,755 – $9,865
Georgia GA63$6,053+18%$1,922 – $9,758
Idaho ID12$5,729+11%$2,500 – $12,563
Oregon OR33$5,656+10%$2,788 – $13,319
Utah UT26$5,636+10%$4,791 – $5,636
Colorado CO36$5,627+9%$2,516 – $9,184
Connecticut CT15$5,621+9%$3,430 – $7,409
California CA143$5,514+7%$3,320 – $11,298
Texas TX165$5,362+4%$3,267 – $8,270
Virginia VA40$5,355+4%$2,235 – $6,705
Minnesota MN31$5,331+4%$4,482 – $7,001
Washington WA42$5,081−1%$2,348 – $8,183
Massachusetts MA24$4,772−7%$3,072 – $8,224
North Carolina NC50$4,696−9%$2,470 – $5,919
Illinois IL79$4,635−10%$1,862 – $9,079
Hawaii HI11$4,595−11%$4,136 – $6,670
South Carolina SC38$4,284−17%$3,348 – $10,011
Michigan MI57$4,169−19%$619 – $8,318
Missouri MO44$3,928−24%$2,140 – $6,858
Oklahoma OK31$3,662−29%$2,312 – $9,457
Kentucky KY17$3,538−31%$1,749 – $21,706
West Virginia WV19$3,538−31%$408 – $5,623
Louisiana LA33$3,203−38%$1,581 – $6,117
Mississippi MS27$3,037−41%$1,407 – $4,907
Arizona AZ33$2,649−48%$1,937 – $17,580
Nebraska NE16$2,580−50%$1,110 – $4,787
Nevada NV10$2,445−52%$1,306 – $3,784
Wisconsin WI61$2,176−58%$1,970 – $6,244
Kansas KS21$2,113−59%$870 – $5,242
Tennessee TN40$1,516−70%$1,285 – $1,965
Arkansas AR15$1,393−73%$928 – $3,700
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $5,139.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,611$5,200$2,282 – $8,841
Children’s41$6,223$2,140 – $11,490
Critical access147$4,169$870 – $9,772
Ownership
For-profit217$5,688$2,582 – $11,298
Government222$4,748$1,595 – $7,091
Non-profit1,360$5,080$2,176 – $8,956
System affiliation
Part of a system1,563$5,200$2,285 – $9,052
Independent245$4,489$1,100 – $8,504

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,440
Median cash price$5,139
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

1,387 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,023 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,130; most fall between $2,136 and $9,184.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,387 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
$1,349$2,650$5,023$7,785$13,250

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,349 vs $13,250).

Of the 1,496 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,387 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,808 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,950 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,808
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here75
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 — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code1,950

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 catheterization, not heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Thrombolysis Arterial Infusion Icra Rs&I Init Tx.

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-dissolving infusion into an artery, first day (CPT 37211) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-37211-clot-dissolving-infusion-into-an-artery-first-day