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Procedure price report · Other OR procedures on vessels other than head and neck

Stent placement in the chest portion of the carotid artery

CPT 37218the billing code this page is about

Placement of one or more stents in the common carotid or innominate artery inside the chest, reached from the front (antegrade), including the imaging used to guide and check the work.

Hospitals typically charge $5,552 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,007 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,248. Most fall between $2,267 and $13,092 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,007
States
49
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 1,007 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
$1,250$2,737$5,552$10,902$19,103

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,250 vs $19,103).

How the prices are spread

$937 – $1,295: 60 hospitals$937$1,295 – $1,790: 56 hospitals$1,790 – $2,474: 64 hospitals$1,790$2,474 – $3,420: 65 hospitals$3,420 – $4,727: 131 hospitals$3,420$4,727 – $6,535: 143 hospitals$6,535 – $9,034: 121 hospitals$6,535$9,034 – $12,487: 99 hospitals$12,487 – $17,262: 99 hospitals$12,487$17,262 – $23,861: 70 hospitals$17,262median $5,552price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (908 of 1,007 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$937$1,29560
$1,295$1,79056
$1,790$2,47464
$2,474$3,42065
$3,420$4,727131
$4,727$6,535143
$6,535$9,034121
$9,034$12,48799
$12,487$17,26299
$17,262$23,86170

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $5,552.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,422 across 31 hospitalsWA$5,422Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $7,241 across 51 hospitalsIL$7,241Wisconsin: median $3,750 across 47 hospitalsWI$3,750Michigan: median $2,278 across 34 hospitalsMI$2,278New York: median $1,686 across 19 hospitalsNY$1,686Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $5,884 across 23 hospitalsOR$5,884Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $2,009 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,009Indiana: median $5,583 across 31 hospitalsIN$5,583Ohio: median $10,262 across 77 hospitalsOH$10,262Pennsylvania: median $4,563 across 47 hospitalsPA$4,563New Jersey: median $4,627 across 24 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,911 across 80 hospitalsCA$4,911Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $8,798 across 20 hospitalsCO$8,798Nebraska: median $3,461 across 11 hospitalsNE$3,461Missouri: median $5,215 across 22 hospitalsMO$5,215Kentucky: median $2,267 across 13 hospitalsKY$2,267West Virginia: median $1,419 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,419Virginia: median $9,524 across 26 hospitalsVA$9,524Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $10,025 across 22 hospitalsAZ$10,025New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $2,430 across 11 hospitalsAR$2,430Tennessee: median $5,874 across 22 hospitalsTN$5,874North Carolina: median $6,805 across 26 hospitalsNC$6,805South Carolina: median $17,090 across 19 hospitalsSC$17,090Oklahoma: median $1,339 across 22 hospitalsOK$1,339Louisiana: median $2,171 across 12 hospitalsLA$2,171Mississippi: median $9,866 across 12 hospitalsMS$9,866Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,554 across 44 hospitalsGA$4,554Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,046 across 99 hospitalsTX$6,046Florida: median $12,827 across 55 hospitalsFL$12,827
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,552. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC19$17,090+208%$13,962 – $17,090
Florida FL55$12,827+131%$3,835 – $19,748
Ohio OH77$10,262+85%$3,782 – $17,654
Arizona AZ22$10,025+81%$1,861 – $22,510
Mississippi MS12$9,866+78%$4,871 – $13,270
Virginia VA26$9,524+72%$5,874 – $17,539
Colorado CO20$8,798+58%$7,230 – $16,163
Illinois IL51$7,241+30%$1,250 – $15,994
North Carolina NC26$6,805+23%$2,989 – $11,306
Texas TX99$6,046+9%$2,631 – $19,103
Oregon OR23$5,884+6%$1,485 – $20,323
Tennessee TN22$5,874+6%$615 – $8,505
Indiana IN31$5,583+1%$3,165 – $8,911
Washington WA31$5,422−2%$3,776 – $6,928
Missouri MO22$5,215−6%$1,335 – $11,057
California CA80$4,911−12%$2,989 – $8,866
New Jersey NJ24$4,627−17%$1,445 – $5,855
Pennsylvania PA47$4,563−18%$1,113 – $8,551
Georgia GA44$4,554−18%$4,008 – $5,961
Wisconsin WI47$3,750−32%$3,365 – $4,590
Nebraska NE11$3,461−38%$1,243 – $4,098
Arkansas AR11$2,430−56%$2,027 – $6,391
Michigan MI34$2,278−59%$1,068 – $7,408
Kentucky KY13$2,267−59%$1,211 – $7,372
Louisiana LA12$2,171−61%$1,888 – $8,774
Iowa IA18$2,009−64%$2,009 – $11,037
New York NY19$1,686−70%$803 – $6,889
West Virginia WV14$1,419−74%$887 – $16,952
Oklahoma OK22$1,339−76%$1,339 – $4,727
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $5,552.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care912$5,720$2,308 – $13,270
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access78$4,590$1,250 – $8,573
Ownership
For-profit90$5,961$2,894 – $20,629
Government107$5,502$2,317 – $11,306
Non-profit806$5,502$2,033 – $13,092
System affiliation
Part of a system913$5,552$2,352 – $13,092
Independent94$4,827$1,315 – $14,534

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$11,407
Median cash price$5,552
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

810 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,566 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,299; most fall between $2,412 and $12,846.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 810 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
$1,401$2,989$5,566$10,262$17,539

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,401 vs $17,539).

Of the 885 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 810 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,007 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,124 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,007
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code1,124

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 OR procedures on vessels other than head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Tcath Stent Placemt Antegrade Carotid/Innominate.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Stent placement in the chest portion of the carotid artery (CPT 37218) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-37218-stent-placement-in-the-chest-portion-of-the-carotid-artery