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

Tie-off of the inferior vena cava

CPT 37619the billing code this page is about

Open abdominal surgery to tie or interrupt the large vein that returns blood from the lower body to the heart, usually to block travelling blood clots.

Hospitals typically charge $5,733 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 362 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,547. Most fall between $3,146 and $7,800 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
362
States
44
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 362 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
$2,152$3,426$5,733$7,535$10,158

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,152 vs $10,158).

How the prices are spread

$1,691 – $2,040: 17 hospitals$1,691$2,040 – $2,462: 10 hospitals$2,462 – $2,970: 26 hospitals$2,462$2,970 – $3,584: 28 hospitals$3,584 – $4,324: 26 hospitals$3,584$4,324 – $5,217: 35 hospitals$5,217 – $6,295: 68 hospitals$5,217$6,295 – $7,595: 57 hospitals$7,595 – $9,164: 31 hospitals$7,595$9,164 – $11,058: 30 hospitals$9,164median $5,733price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (328 of 362 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,691$2,04017
$2,040$2,46210
$2,462$2,97026
$2,970$3,58428
$3,584$4,32426
$4,324$5,21735
$5,217$6,29568
$6,295$7,59557
$7,595$9,16431
$9,164$11,05830

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,685
Median cash price$5,733
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.01×

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 $5,733.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $4,534 across 13 hospitalsIL$4,534Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $3,198 across 14 hospitalsMI$3,198New York: median $6,397 across 23 hospitalsNY$6,397Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,160 across 11 hospitalsOR$3,160Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $4,226 across 15 hospitalsIA$4,226Indiana: median $4,272 across 13 hospitalsIN$4,272Ohio: median $7,800 across 10 hospitalsOH$7,800Pennsylvania: median $6,338 across 14 hospitalsPA$6,338New Jersey: median $5,908 across 25 hospitalsNJ$5,908Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $10,158 across 47 hospitalsCA$10,158Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,691 across 10 hospitalsTN$1,691North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,829 across 17 hospitalsOK$2,829Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,873 across 25 hospitalsTX$5,873Florida: median $6,108 across 23 hospitalsFL$6,108
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,733. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA47$10,158+77%$7,535 – $10,158
Ohio OH10$7,800+36%$2,709 – $7,800
New York NY23$6,397+12%$5,140 – $6,605
Pennsylvania PA14$6,338+11%$5,474 – $10,186
Florida FL23$6,108+7%$6,108 – $7,323
New Jersey NJ25$5,908+3%$4,881 – $6,366
Texas TX25$5,873+2%$5,562 – $8,503
Illinois IL13$4,534−21%$1,377 – $7,748
Indiana IN13$4,272−25%$3,705 – $5,774
Iowa IA15$4,226−26%$3,773 – $5,100
Michigan MI14$3,198−44%$2,835 – $7,651
Oregon OR11$3,160−45%$3,146 – $3,160
Oklahoma OK17$2,829−51%$2,829 – $4,676
Tennessee TN10$1,691−71%$1,525 – $1,849
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $5,733.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care321$5,873$3,198 – $7,800
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$3,271$1,889 – $5,873
Ownership
For-profit45$6,076$2,475 – $9,189
Government45$4,792$2,946 – $6,397
Non-profit270$5,855$3,146 – $7,651
System affiliation
Part of a system306$5,873$3,146 – $7,800
Independent56$4,461$2,709 – $6,614

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,189
Median cash price$5,733
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

229 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,553 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,380; most fall between $2,835 and $8,503.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 229 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
$1,935$3,146$5,553$7,535$10,158

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,935 vs $10,158).

Of the 260 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 229 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

362 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 399 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted362
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code399

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Ligation of Inferior Vena Cava.

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, “Tie-off of the inferior vena cava (CPT 37619) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-37619-tie-off-of-the-inferior-vena-cava