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

Catheter blockage of a brain or spine blood vessel

CPT 61624the billing code this page is about

A catheter is threaded through the blood vessels to permanently plug or embolize a vessel supplying the brain or spinal cord, for example to treat a malformation or tumor.

Hospitals typically charge $6,851 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,277 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $7,802. Most fall between $2,822 and $17,596 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,277
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 1,277 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
$2,015$3,301$6,851$14,116$27,323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,015 vs $27,323).

How the prices are spread

$1,383 – $1,919: 55 hospitals$1,383$1,919 – $2,662: 123 hospitals$2,662 – $3,693: 132 hospitals$2,662$3,693 – $5,123: 114 hospitals$5,123 – $7,107: 172 hospitals$5,123$7,107 – $9,859: 163 hospitals$9,859 – $13,678: 117 hospitals$9,859$13,678 – $18,975: 110 hospitals$18,975 – $26,324: 96 hospitals$18,975$26,324 – $36,520: 69 hospitals$26,324median $6,851price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,151 of 1,277 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,383$1,91955
$1,919$2,662123
$2,662$3,693132
$3,693$5,123114
$5,123$7,107172
$7,107$9,859163
$9,859$13,678117
$13,678$18,975110
$18,975$26,32496
$26,324$36,52069

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$18,729
Median cash price$6,851
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.37×

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 $6,851.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,520 across 33 hospitalsWA$4,520Idaho: median $23,450 across 10 hospitalsID$23,450Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $9,405 across 24 hospitalsMN$9,405Illinois: median $5,253 across 53 hospitalsIL$5,253Wisconsin: median $5,107 across 49 hospitalsWI$5,107Michigan: median $8,938 across 54 hospitalsMI$8,938New York: median $4,649 across 36 hospitalsNY$4,649Massachusetts: median $6,243 across 19 hospitalsMA$6,243Oregon: median $8,730 across 21 hospitalsOR$8,730Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $8,616 across 39 hospitalsIN$8,616Ohio: median $8,908 across 78 hospitalsOH$8,908Pennsylvania: median $8,566 across 65 hospitalsPA$8,566New Jersey: median $4,881 across 40 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: median $8,028 across 10 hospitalsCT$8,028Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,337 across 118 hospitalsCA$7,337Utah: median $5,874 across 23 hospitalsUT$5,874Colorado: median $5,240 across 26 hospitalsCO$5,240Nebraska: median $2,644 across 14 hospitalsNE$2,644Missouri: median $3,202 across 26 hospitalsMO$3,202Kentucky: median $10,721 across 16 hospitalsKY$10,721West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $7,642 across 28 hospitalsVA$7,642Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $11,516 across 23 hospitalsAZ$11,516New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,493 across 27 hospitalsTN$2,493North Carolina: median $3,948 across 32 hospitalsNC$3,948South Carolina: median $5,954 across 28 hospitalsSC$5,954Oklahoma: median $2,434 across 21 hospitalsOK$2,434Louisiana: median $7,116 across 21 hospitalsLA$7,116Mississippi: median $2,144 across 16 hospitalsMS$2,144Alabama: median $16,361 across 11 hospitalsAL$16,361Georgia: median $8,795 across 52 hospitalsGA$8,795Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,076 across 116 hospitalsTX$7,076Florida: median $9,196 across 65 hospitalsFL$9,196
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,851. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$23,450+242%$7,487 – $23,450
Alabama AL11$16,361+139%$3,932 – $23,649
Arizona AZ23$11,516+68%$1,525 – $30,506
Kentucky KY16$10,721+56%$5,563 – $31,300
Minnesota MN24$9,405+37%$3,386 – $13,792
Florida FL65$9,196+34%$6,051 – $18,961
Michigan MI54$8,938+30%$2,847 – $25,207
Ohio OH78$8,908+30%$7,221 – $19,547
Georgia GA52$8,795+28%$2,947 – $14,023
Oregon OR21$8,730+27%$2,127 – $38,125
Indiana IN39$8,616+26%$1,885 – $14,468
Pennsylvania PA65$8,566+25%$1,838 – $18,510
Connecticut CT10$8,028+17%$5,185 – $11,597
Virginia VA28$7,642+12%$3,301 – $22,272
California CA118$7,337+7%$2,285 – $18,109
Louisiana LA21$7,116+4%$3,909 – $16,972
Texas TX116$7,076+3%$4,204 – $14,484
Massachusetts MA19$6,243−9%$1,926 – $8,392
South Carolina SC28$5,954−13%$3,143 – $8,470
Utah UT23$5,874−14%$5,874 – $6,527
Illinois IL53$5,253−23%$1,389 – $28,084
Colorado CO26$5,240−24%$2,554 – $14,549
Wisconsin WI49$5,107−25%$2,290 – $11,882
New Jersey NJ40$4,881−29%$1,383 – $23,718
New York NY36$4,649−32%$1,947 – $20,700
Washington WA33$4,520−34%$2,930 – $16,217
North Carolina NC32$3,948−42%$3,341 – $6,208
Missouri MO26$3,202−53%$2,015 – $4,651
Nebraska NE14$2,644−61%$2,554 – $6,613
Tennessee TN27$2,493−64%$2,435 – $5,214
Oklahoma OK21$2,434−64%$2,427 – $9,117
Mississippi MS16$2,144−69%$1,528 – $8,136
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $6,851.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,135$6,839$2,768 – $17,512
Children’s41$10,280$3,263 – $24,165
Critical access94$5,874$2,911 – $16,583
Ownership
For-profit133$9,753$2,947 – $29,797
Government134$6,051$2,555 – $15,766
Non-profit1,003$6,527$2,780 – $16,713
System affiliation
Part of a system1,146$6,846$2,894 – $17,419
Independent131$6,851$2,211 – $20,441

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$12,180
Median cash price$6,851
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

1,036 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,527 and the average of the middle 60% is $7,315; most fall between $2,555 and $14,549.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,036 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
$1,947$3,143$6,527$13,035$23,020

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,947 vs $23,020).

Of the 1,102 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,036 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,277 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,387 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,277
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,387

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 Tcat Perm Occls/Embolization Perq Cns.

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, “Catheter blockage of a brain or spine blood vessel (CPT 61624) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61624-catheter-blockage-of-a-brain-or-spine-blood-vessel