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

Balloon opening of brain artery, extra vessel same branch

CPT 61641the billing code this page is about

Balloon widening of a narrowed artery inside the skull, billed for each additional vessel treated within the same vascular branch during the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $2,450 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 612 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,700. Most fall between $853 and $5,903 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
612
States
48
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 612 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
$434$1,037$2,450$5,231$9,269

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($434 vs $9,269).

How the prices are spread

$299 – $433: 31 hospitals$299$433 – $628: 24 hospitals$628 – $911: 45 hospitals$628$911 – $1,320: 80 hospitals$1,320 – $1,913: 55 hospitals$1,320$1,913 – $2,773: 70 hospitals$2,773 – $4,020: 77 hospitals$2,773$4,020 – $5,827: 72 hospitals$5,827 – $8,447: 58 hospitals$5,827$8,447 – $12,243: 41 hospitals$8,447median $2,450price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (553 of 612 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$299$43331
$433$62824
$628$91145
$911$1,32080
$1,320$1,91355
$1,913$2,77370
$2,773$4,02077
$4,020$5,82772
$5,827$8,44758
$8,447$12,24341

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,450.

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: median $1,468 across 16 hospitalsWA$1,468Idaho: 7 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,753 across 24 hospitalsIL$3,753Wisconsin: median $1,951 across 20 hospitalsWI$1,951Michigan: median $825 across 10 hospitalsMI$825New York: median $805 across 12 hospitalsNY$805Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,061 across 19 hospitalsIN$1,061Ohio: median $1,747 across 43 hospitalsOH$1,747Pennsylvania: median $3,342 across 26 hospitalsPA$3,342New Jersey: median $5,110 across 15 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 6 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 $1,037 across 56 hospitalsCA$1,037Utah: median $2,530 across 23 hospitalsUT$2,530Colorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,042 across 15 hospitalsMO$1,042Kentucky: 7 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 20 hospitalsVA$6,254Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $2,680 across 11 hospitalsNC$2,680South Carolina: median $5,231 across 14 hospitalsSC$5,231Oklahoma: median $822 across 18 hospitalsOK$822Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,131 across 35 hospitalsGA$2,131Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,898 across 61 hospitalsTX$1,898Florida: median $3,130 across 42 hospitalsFL$3,130
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,450. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA20$6,254+155%$859 – $6,257
South Carolina SC14$5,231+114%$5,231 – $5,231
New Jersey NJ15$5,110+109%$3,986 – $5,855
Illinois IL24$3,753+53%$952 – $8,573
Pennsylvania PA26$3,342+36%$1,257 – $12,392
Florida FL42$3,130+28%$1,183 – $5,574
North Carolina NC11$2,680+9%$691 – $2,680
Utah UT23$2,530+3%$2,530 – $2,977
Georgia GA35$2,131−13%$2,131 – $3,589
Wisconsin WI20$1,951−20%$1,036 – $4,735
Texas TX61$1,898−23%$1,190 – $7,703
Ohio OH43$1,747−29%$1,060 – $5,914
Washington WA16$1,468−40%$287 – $4,487
Indiana IN19$1,061−57%$838 – $1,523
Missouri MO15$1,042−57%$955 – $2,581
California CA56$1,037−58%$414 – $9,161
Michigan MI10$825−66%$825 – $3,184
Oklahoma OK18$822−66%$663 – $6,257
New York NY12$805−67%$505 – $7,875
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,450.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care554$2,250$825 – $5,855
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$3,438$1,282 – $6,825
Ownership
For-profit59$2,085$771 – $8,706
Government60$2,348$1,082 – $4,760
Non-profit487$2,530$849 – $5,903
System affiliation
Part of a system569$2,450$859 – $5,903
Independent43$2,703$681 – $8,998

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,790
Median cash price$2,450
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

524 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,131 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,509; most fall between $822 and $5,851.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 524 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
$414$977$2,131$5,102$9,161

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($414 vs $9,161).

Of the 574 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 524 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 4 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

612 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 700 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted612
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded53
Hospitals that filed this code700

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Perq Balo Dila Ic Vspsm Ea Vsl Sm Vasc Ter.

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, “Balloon opening of brain artery, extra vessel same branch (CPT 61641) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61641-balloon-opening-of-brain-artery-extra-vessel-same-branch