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

Temporary balloon blockage of a head or neck artery

CPT 61623the billing code this page is about

A catheter-based procedure that temporarily blocks blood flow in an artery of the head or neck with a balloon, including testing of how the brain tolerates the blockage.

Hospitals typically charge $11,262 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 984 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $10,670. Most fall between $4,164 and $18,341 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
984
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 984 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
$2,318$5,110$11,262$16,052$24,534

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,318 vs $24,534).

How the prices are spread

$1,382 – $1,903: 41 hospitals$1,382$1,903 – $2,621: 20 hospitals$2,621 – $3,611: 52 hospitals$2,621$3,611 – $4,974: 74 hospitals$4,974 – $6,852: 99 hospitals$4,974$6,852 – $9,438: 111 hospitals$9,438 – $13,000: 159 hospitals$9,438$13,000 – $17,908: 166 hospitals$17,908 – $24,667: 119 hospitals$17,908$24,667 – $33,978: 49 hospitals$24,667median $11,262price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (890 of 984 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,382$1,90341
$1,903$2,62120
$2,621$3,61152
$3,611$4,97474
$4,974$6,85299
$6,852$9,438111
$9,438$13,000159
$13,000$17,908166
$17,908$24,667119
$24,667$33,97849

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$11,262
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.95×

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 $11,262.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $6,953 across 26 hospitalsWA$6,953Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $12,278 across 14 hospitalsMN$12,278Illinois: median $7,318 across 41 hospitalsIL$7,318Wisconsin: median $11,794 across 20 hospitalsWI$11,794Michigan: median $9,775 across 40 hospitalsMI$9,775New York: median $13,420 across 36 hospitalsNY$13,420Massachusetts: median $13,199 across 12 hospitalsMA$13,199Oregon: median $19,168 across 15 hospitalsOR$19,168Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,382 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,382Indiana: median $4,254 across 20 hospitalsIN$4,254Ohio: median $15,515 across 67 hospitalsOH$15,515Pennsylvania: median $13,161 across 38 hospitalsPA$13,161New Jersey: median $12,563 across 41 hospitalsNJ$12,563Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $11,474 across 96 hospitalsCA$11,474Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $6,559 across 21 hospitalsCO$6,559Nebraska: median $8,567 across 12 hospitalsNE$8,567Missouri: median $11,261 across 20 hospitalsMO$11,261Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $6,254 across 28 hospitalsVA$6,254Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $12,438 across 20 hospitalsAZ$12,438New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,551 across 18 hospitalsTN$1,551North Carolina: median $2,698 across 19 hospitalsNC$2,698South Carolina: median $15,476 across 21 hospitalsSC$15,476Oklahoma: median $1,945 across 21 hospitalsOK$1,945Louisiana: median $5,312 across 16 hospitalsLA$5,312Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $9,892 across 13 hospitalsAL$9,892Georgia: median $6,706 across 44 hospitalsGA$6,706Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $11,635 across 115 hospitalsTX$11,635Florida: median $15,508 across 58 hospitalsFL$15,508
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $11,262. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR15$19,168+70%$1,052 – $22,594
Ohio OH67$15,515+38%$7,055 – $29,806
Florida FL58$15,508+38%$5,058 – $33,978
South Carolina SC21$15,476+37%$7,652 – $15,476
New York NY36$13,420+19%$11,794 – $24,534
Massachusetts MA12$13,199+17%$7,467 – $19,011
Pennsylvania PA38$13,161+17%$5,303 – $21,370
New Jersey NJ41$12,563+12%$5,419 – $15,132
Arizona AZ20$12,438+10%$3,728 – $21,282
Minnesota MN14$12,278+9%$7,741 – $13,013
Wisconsin WI20$11,794+5%$6,718 – $20,584
Texas TX115$11,635+3%$3,764 – $18,331
California CA96$11,474+2%$6,820 – $21,095
Missouri MO20$11,2610%$6,107 – $16,369
Alabama AL13$9,892−12%$4,623 – $17,556
Michigan MI40$9,775−13%$5,338 – $18,998
Nebraska NE12$8,567−24%$1,166 – $12,248
Illinois IL41$7,318−35%$4,750 – $14,385
Washington WA26$6,953−38%$3,586 – $15,802
Georgia GA44$6,706−40%$3,965 – $11,753
Colorado CO21$6,559−42%$5,721 – $18,211
Virginia VA28$6,254−44%$4,457 – $13,027
Louisiana LA16$5,312−53%$3,365 – $11,426
Indiana IN20$4,254−62%$3,148 – $7,471
North Carolina NC19$2,698−76%$1,845 – $14,716
Oklahoma OK21$1,945−83%$944 – $20,659
Tennessee TN18$1,551−86%$1,161 – $6,714
Iowa IA16$1,382−88%$1,382 – $7,552
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $11,262.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care897$11,356$4,457 – $17,961
Children’s30$10,408$2,327 – $20,795
Critical access52$10,444$3,457 – $20,584
Ownership
For-profit103$12,536$5,058 – $32,173
Government94$9,754$3,472 – $14,877
Non-profit782$11,261$4,457 – $18,211
System affiliation
Part of a system891$11,410$4,457 – $18,341
Independent93$10,408$1,933 – $17,984

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$18,279
Median cash price$11,262
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

756 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $10,532 and the average of the middle 60% is $10,341; most fall between $3,965 and $18,043.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 756 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
$1,830$4,858$10,532$15,980$24,421

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,830 vs $24,421).

Of the 822 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 756 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 4 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

984 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 1,069 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted984
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code1,069

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 of head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Evasc Temp Balloon Artl Occlusion Head/Neck.

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, “Temporary balloon blockage of a head or neck artery (CPT 61623) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61623-temporary-balloon-blockage-of-a-head-or-neck-artery