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

Blocking the blood supply to a tumor or organ

CPT 37243the billing code this page is about

Particles, beads, or other material are injected through a catheter to cut off blood flow to a tumor or to deliberately reduce blood supply to part of an organ.

Hospitals typically charge $14,499 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,713 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $14,841. Most fall between $7,822 and $23,715 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,713
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 1,713 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
$4,816$9,186$14,499$21,647$34,188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,816 vs $34,188).

How the prices are spread

$3,280 – $4,267: 46 hospitals$3,280$4,267 – $5,551: 76 hospitals$5,551 – $7,222: 103 hospitals$5,551$7,222 – $9,395: 132 hospitals$9,395 – $12,222: 238 hospitals$9,395$12,222 – $15,900: 287 hospitals$15,900 – $20,684: 292 hospitals$15,900$20,684 – $26,908: 182 hospitals$26,908 – $35,004: 114 hospitals$26,908$35,004 – $45,537: 78 hospitals$35,004median $14,499price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,548 of 1,713 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3,280$4,26746
$4,267$5,55176
$5,551$7,222103
$7,222$9,395132
$9,395$12,222238
$12,222$15,900287
$15,900$20,684292
$20,684$26,908182
$26,908$35,004114
$35,004$45,53778

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$14,499
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.23×

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 $14,499.

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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $16,150 across 40 hospitalsWA$16,150Idaho: median $19,614 across 12 hospitalsID$19,614Montana: median $14,804 across 10 hospitalsMT$14,804North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $14,135 across 35 hospitalsMN$14,135Illinois: median $13,425 across 78 hospitalsIL$13,425Wisconsin: median $13,098 across 57 hospitalsWI$13,098Michigan: median $15,874 across 50 hospitalsMI$15,874New York: median $18,378 across 77 hospitalsNY$18,378Massachusetts: median $17,186 across 32 hospitalsMA$17,186Oregon: median $16,896 across 31 hospitalsOR$16,896Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $14,439 across 21 hospitalsIA$14,439Indiana: median $10,997 across 47 hospitalsIN$10,997Ohio: median $11,868 across 95 hospitalsOH$11,868Pennsylvania: median $17,610 across 87 hospitalsPA$17,610New Jersey: median $13,125 across 56 hospitalsNJ$13,125Connecticut: median $21,995 across 18 hospitalsCT$21,995Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $21,641 across 145 hospitalsCA$21,641Utah: median $13,439 across 26 hospitalsUT$13,439Colorado: median $14,060 across 33 hospitalsCO$14,060Nebraska: median $6,691 across 17 hospitalsNE$6,691Missouri: median $10,423 across 42 hospitalsMO$10,423Kentucky: median $11,923 across 16 hospitalsKY$11,923West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $19,495 across 37 hospitalsVA$19,495Maryland: 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 $12,560 across 32 hospitalsAZ$12,560New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $10,875 across 14 hospitalsKS$10,875Arkansas: median $4,923 across 16 hospitalsAR$4,923Tennessee: median $5,659 across 36 hospitalsTN$5,659North Carolina: median $8,077 across 47 hospitalsNC$8,077South Carolina: median $23,340 across 34 hospitalsSC$23,340Oklahoma: median $9,903 across 26 hospitalsOK$9,903Louisiana: median $7,995 across 30 hospitalsLA$7,995Mississippi: median $8,136 across 24 hospitalsMS$8,136Alabama: median $14,729 across 18 hospitalsAL$14,729Georgia: median $13,404 across 59 hospitalsGA$13,404Hawaii: median $11,159 across 10 hospitalsHI$11,159Texas: median $16,061 across 138 hospitalsTX$16,061Florida: median $18,273 across 90 hospitalsFL$18,273
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $14,499. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC34$23,340+61%$12,778 – $24,970
Connecticut CT18$21,995+52%$11,117 – $37,947
California CA145$21,641+49%$12,275 – $34,188
Idaho ID12$19,614+35%$16,000 – $21,266
Virginia VA37$19,495+34%$8,400 – $23,184
New York NY77$18,378+27%$10,511 – $24,589
Florida FL90$18,273+26%$11,201 – $35,548
Pennsylvania PA87$17,610+21%$11,356 – $23,658
Massachusetts MA32$17,186+19%$13,734 – $26,147
Oregon OR31$16,896+17%$3,098 – $22,662
Washington WA40$16,150+11%$7,250 – $22,722
Texas TX138$16,061+11%$10,568 – $33,529
Michigan MI50$15,874+9%$9,880 – $23,619
Montana MT10$14,804+2%$14,804 – $17,935
Alabama AL18$14,729+2%$7,434 – $23,085
Iowa IA21$14,4390%$10,503 – $21,261
Minnesota MN35$14,135−3%$12,194 – $18,269
Colorado CO33$14,060−3%$8,301 – $15,622
Utah UT26$13,439−7%$13,439 – $15,811
Illinois IL78$13,425−7%$8,816 – $24,906
Georgia GA59$13,404−8%$7,430 – $25,493
New Jersey NJ56$13,125−9%$4,881 – $15,132
Wisconsin WI57$13,098−10%$3,099 – $19,939
Arizona AZ32$12,560−13%$4,816 – $34,096
Kentucky KY16$11,923−18%$9,723 – $45,537
Ohio OH95$11,868−18%$9,695 – $19,947
Hawaii HI10$11,159−23%$9,473 – $14,389
Indiana IN47$10,997−24%$9,484 – $18,307
Kansas KS14$10,875−25%$4,976 – $19,507
Missouri MO42$10,423−28%$5,616 – $14,850
Oklahoma OK26$9,903−32%$9,146 – $13,378
Mississippi MS24$8,136−44%$5,093 – $10,569
North Carolina NC47$8,077−44%$6,628 – $14,905
Louisiana LA30$7,995−45%$4,710 – $16,100
Nebraska NE17$6,691−54%$5,278 – $11,819
Tennessee TN36$5,659−61%$4,519 – $11,131
Arkansas AR16$4,923−66%$3,564 – $7,015
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not 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
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not 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 $14,499.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,528$14,578$8,000 – $24,221
Children’s43$13,747$7,905 – $28,687
Critical access133$13,439$5,659 – $20,298
Ownership
For-profit186$16,061$8,821 – $37,591
Government202$11,679$6,973 – $19,812
Non-profit1,316$14,586$7,905 – $23,340
System affiliation
Part of a system1,485$14,499$7,928 – $23,658
Independent228$14,389$7,016 – $23,940

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$24,841
Median cash price$14,499
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

1,322 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $15,208 and the average of the middle 60% is $15,611; most fall between $8,582 and $24,534.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,322 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
$5,345$9,848$15,208$22,662$34,188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5,345 vs $34,188).

Of the 1,424 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,322 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 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,713 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,867 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,713
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here88
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 — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,867

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 Vascular Embolize/Occlude Organ Tumor Infarct.

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, “Blocking the blood supply to a tumor or organ (CPT 37243) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-37243-blocking-the-blood-supply-to-a-tumor-or-organ