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

Stent placement in an artery, first artery

CPT 37236the billing code this page is about

Catheter-based placement of one or more stents in an artery not covered by the leg, carotid, coronary or other specific stent codes; this code covers the first artery treated.

Hospitals typically charge $13,385 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,869 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $14,036. Most fall between $7,022 and $24,063 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,869
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 1,869 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
$4,322$8,000$13,385$21,379$31,459

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,322 vs $31,459).

How the prices are spread

$2,535 – $3,340: 38 hospitals$2,535$3,340 – $4,400: 61 hospitals$4,400 – $5,796: 90 hospitals$4,400$5,796 – $7,635: 151 hospitals$7,635 – $10,058: 194 hospitals$7,635$10,058 – $13,250: 293 hospitals$13,250 – $17,455: 306 hospitals$13,250$17,455 – $22,994: 228 hospitals$22,994 – $30,291: 216 hospitals$22,994$30,291 – $39,904: 106 hospitals$30,291median $13,385price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,683 of 1,869 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$2,535$3,34038
$3,340$4,40061
$4,400$5,79690
$5,796$7,635151
$7,635$10,058194
$10,058$13,250293
$13,250$17,455306
$17,455$22,994228
$22,994$30,291216
$30,291$39,904106

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$13,385
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $13,385.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $13,273 across 42 hospitalsWA$13,273Idaho: median $19,614 across 13 hospitalsID$19,614Montana: 8 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 $13,728 across 39 hospitalsMN$13,728Illinois: median $10,460 across 80 hospitalsIL$10,460Wisconsin: median $13,048 across 63 hospitalsWI$13,048Michigan: median $10,281 across 64 hospitalsMI$10,281New York: median $13,703 across 65 hospitalsNY$13,703Massachusetts: median $16,014 across 32 hospitalsMA$16,014Oregon: median $14,935 across 30 hospitalsOR$14,935Nevada: 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: median $26,094 across 10 hospitalsSD$26,094Iowa: median $13,055 across 22 hospitalsIA$13,055Indiana: median $12,154 across 50 hospitalsIN$12,154Ohio: median $15,223 across 101 hospitalsOH$15,223Pennsylvania: median $15,319 across 94 hospitalsPA$15,319New Jersey: median $12,552 across 55 hospitalsNJ$12,552Connecticut: median $17,911 across 15 hospitalsCT$17,911Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $17,048 across 143 hospitalsCA$17,048Utah: median $23,111 across 26 hospitalsUT$23,111Colorado: median $10,238 across 36 hospitalsCO$10,238Nebraska: median $9,744 across 19 hospitalsNE$9,744Missouri: median $9,862 across 51 hospitalsMO$9,862Kentucky: median $12,705 across 20 hospitalsKY$12,705West Virginia: median $12,918 across 15 hospitalsWV$12,918Virginia: median $13,965 across 42 hospitalsVA$13,965Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $12,254 across 32 hospitalsAZ$12,254New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $10,391 across 22 hospitalsKS$10,391Arkansas: median $6,265 across 18 hospitalsAR$6,265Tennessee: median $6,114 across 45 hospitalsTN$6,114North Carolina: median $11,303 across 50 hospitalsNC$11,303South Carolina: median $24,028 across 37 hospitalsSC$24,028Oklahoma: median $7,242 across 33 hospitalsOK$7,242Louisiana: median $11,273 across 40 hospitalsLA$11,273Mississippi: median $8,352 across 28 hospitalsMS$8,352Alabama: median $15,968 across 28 hospitalsAL$15,968Georgia: median $8,687 across 67 hospitalsGA$8,687Hawaii: median $9,993 across 10 hospitalsHI$9,993Texas: median $13,837 across 163 hospitalsTX$13,837Florida: median $21,373 across 99 hospitalsFL$21,373
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $13,385. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD10$26,094+95%$14,254 – $26,094
South Carolina SC37$24,028+80%$10,047 – $24,333
Utah UT26$23,111+73%$23,111 – $27,190
Florida FL99$21,373+60%$8,649 – $27,362
Idaho ID13$19,614+47%$17,129 – $23,111
Connecticut CT15$17,911+34%$10,549 – $29,224
California CA143$17,048+27%$10,086 – $32,041
Massachusetts MA32$16,014+20%$12,239 – $27,497
Alabama AL28$15,968+19%$10,706 – $30,081
Pennsylvania PA94$15,319+14%$9,061 – $21,745
Ohio OH101$15,223+14%$11,374 – $24,116
Oregon OR30$14,935+12%$1,247 – $26,900
Virginia VA42$13,965+4%$6,983 – $19,632
Texas TX163$13,837+3%$5,521 – $33,952
Minnesota MN39$13,728+3%$11,343 – $16,655
New York NY65$13,703+2%$7,735 – $24,534
Washington WA42$13,273−1%$10,513 – $21,650
Iowa IA22$13,055−2%$11,004 – $20,939
Wisconsin WI63$13,048−3%$7,158 – $16,005
West Virginia WV15$12,918−3%$4,299 – $24,497
Kentucky KY20$12,705−5%$4,444 – $24,926
New Jersey NJ55$12,552−6%$5,110 – $14,936
Arizona AZ32$12,254−8%$4,547 – $21,220
Indiana IN50$12,154−9%$8,770 – $24,336
North Carolina NC50$11,303−16%$5,452 – $20,544
Louisiana LA40$11,273−16%$7,022 – $21,360
Illinois IL80$10,460−22%$4,268 – $25,366
Kansas KS22$10,391−22%$5,625 – $18,089
Michigan MI64$10,281−23%$3,641 – $25,484
Colorado CO36$10,238−24%$6,469 – $26,611
Hawaii HI10$9,993−25%$3,026 – $10,312
Missouri MO51$9,862−26%$5,934 – $13,766
Nebraska NE19$9,744−27%$2,580 – $14,347
Georgia GA67$8,687−35%$6,619 – $20,783
Mississippi MS28$8,352−38%$7,195 – $12,715
Oklahoma OK33$7,242−46%$3,288 – $14,189
Arkansas AR18$6,265−53%$2,069 – $12,200
Tennessee TN45$6,114−54%$4,585 – $11,134
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $13,385.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,674$13,400$7,158 – $24,116
Children’s44$14,121$7,868 – $30,648
Critical access142$11,690$4,945 – $20,769
Ownership
For-profit232$16,654$8,882 – $36,759
Government228$11,905$5,103 – $20,544
Non-profit1,400$13,304$6,983 – $23,228
System affiliation
Part of a system1,615$13,385$7,242 – $24,063
Independent254$12,989$5,983 – $23,422

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$24,816
Median cash price$13,385
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

1,429 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $13,943 and the average of the middle 60% is $14,485; most fall between $7,406 and $23,767.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,429 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
$4,660$8,687$13,943$21,554$30,081

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,660 vs $30,081).

Of the 1,554 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,429 gave a usable cash price; 59 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,869 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 2,042 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,869
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here96
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 — excluded72
Hospitals that filed this code2,042

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 OR procedures on vessels other than head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open/Perq Placement Intravascular Stent Initial.

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, “Stent placement in an artery, first artery (CPT 37236) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-37236-stent-placement-in-an-artery-first-artery