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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Opening the exit site of a buried abdominal catheter

CPT 49436the billing code this page is about

A later, separate procedure to bring the end of an abdominal dialysis catheter that was buried under the skin out through a new exit site so it can be used.

Hospitals typically charge $1,482 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 340 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,786. Most fall between $418 and $3,688 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
340
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 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 340 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
$194$707$1,482$3,348$5,537

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($194 vs $5,537).

How the prices are spread

$172 – $249: 26 hospitals$172$249 – $360: 22 hospitals$360 – $522: 12 hospitals$360$522 – $755: 17 hospitals$755 – $1,094: 60 hospitals$755$1,094 – $1,585: 28 hospitals$1,585 – $2,296: 38 hospitals$1,585$2,296 – $3,326: 34 hospitals$3,326 – $4,817: 42 hospitals$3,326$4,817 – $6,978: 42 hospitals$4,817median $1,482price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (321 of 340 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$172$24926
$249$36022
$360$52212
$522$75517
$755$1,09460
$1,094$1,58528
$1,585$2,29638
$2,296$3,32634
$3,326$4,81742
$4,817$6,97842

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,482
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.76×

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 $1,482.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,312 across 10 hospitalsWA$2,312Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $350 across 14 hospitalsIL$350Wisconsin: median $827 across 13 hospitalsWI$827Michigan: median $368 across 25 hospitalsMI$368New York: median $2,245 across 21 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,535 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,535Nevada: 2 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 $970 across 16 hospitalsIA$970Indiana: median $712 across 13 hospitalsIN$712Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,472 across 29 hospitalsPA$1,472New Jersey: median $2,234 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,234Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,264 across 39 hospitalsCA$5,264Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $849 across 12 hospitalsOK$849Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,227 across 17 hospitalsTX$3,227Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,482. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$5,264+255%$3,453 – $6,978
Texas TX17$3,227+118%$3,227 – $3,688
Washington WA10$2,312+56%$1,700 – $3,110
New York NY21$2,245+52%$916 – $2,278
New Jersey NJ32$2,234+51%$2,073 – $5,741
Oregon OR16$1,535+4%$343 – $3,784
Pennsylvania PA29$1,472−1%$120 – $2,768
Iowa IA16$970−35%$970 – $970
Oklahoma OK12$849−43%$849 – $849
Wisconsin WI13$827−44%$827 – $827
Indiana IN13$712−52%$617 – $962
Michigan MI25$368−75%$194 – $1,063
Illinois IL14$350−76%$146 – $3,887
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,482.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care297$1,843$433 – $3,688
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access37$827$373 – $1,535
Ownership
For-profit24$849$173 – $3,320
Government31$1,700$488 – $2,245
Non-profit285$1,482$432 – $3,784
System affiliation
Part of a system298$1,509$583 – $3,784
Independent42$916$314 – $2,355

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,677
Median cash price$1,482
Cash as a share of list, median hospital58%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 42%. 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

228 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,288 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,892; most fall between $344 and $4,667.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 228 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
$213$433$1,288$3,688$6,978

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 33× what the cheapest tenth charges ($213 vs $6,978).

Of the 253 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 228 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

340 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 373 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted340
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code373

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 gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Delayed Creation Exit Site Embedded Catheter.

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, “Opening the exit site of a buried abdominal catheter (CPT 49436) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49436-opening-the-exit-site-of-a-buried-abdominal-catheter