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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Extended drug infusion into brain artery, first territory

CPT 61650the billing code this page is about

Catheter-based prolonged delivery of medication (other than clot-dissolving drugs) into an artery inside the skull; this code covers the first vascular territory treated.

Hospitals typically charge $3,986 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,077 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,469. Most fall between $1,684 and $10,475 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,077
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 1,077 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
$1,056$1,944$3,986$8,214$20,374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,056 vs $20,374).

How the prices are spread

$726 – $1,040: 52 hospitals$726$1,040 – $1,492: 69 hospitals$1,492 – $2,139: 135 hospitals$1,492$2,139 – $3,068: 123 hospitals$3,068 – $4,400: 151 hospitals$3,068$4,400 – $6,309: 134 hospitals$6,309 – $9,048: 115 hospitals$6,309$9,048 – $12,975: 65 hospitals$12,975 – $18,606: 51 hospitals$12,975$18,606 – $26,681: 77 hospitals$18,606median $3,986price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (972 of 1,077 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$726$1,04052
$1,040$1,49269
$1,492$2,139135
$2,139$3,068123
$3,068$4,400151
$4,400$6,309134
$6,309$9,048115
$9,048$12,97565
$12,975$18,60651
$18,606$26,68177

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,986.

Alaska: 2 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,478 across 29 hospitalsWA$2,478Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,573 across 20 hospitalsMN$1,573Illinois: median $5,565 across 38 hospitalsIL$5,565Wisconsin: median $4,365 across 33 hospitalsWI$4,365Michigan: median $2,202 across 49 hospitalsMI$2,202New York: median $2,204 across 26 hospitalsNY$2,204Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,451 across 22 hospitalsOR$2,451Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $5,421 across 31 hospitalsIN$5,421Ohio: median $4,421 across 74 hospitalsOH$4,421Pennsylvania: median $4,786 across 29 hospitalsPA$4,786New Jersey: median $4,500 across 24 hospitalsNJ$4,500Connecticut: median $5,373 across 10 hospitalsCT$5,373Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,880 across 113 hospitalsCA$3,880Utah: median $20,276 across 23 hospitalsUT$20,276Colorado: median $9,549 across 20 hospitalsCO$9,549Nebraska: median $1,485 across 11 hospitalsNE$1,485Missouri: median $3,722 across 28 hospitalsMO$3,722Kentucky: median $1,513 across 18 hospitalsKY$1,513West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,872 across 28 hospitalsVA$1,872Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,584 across 24 hospitalsAZ$2,584New 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,559 across 18 hospitalsTN$1,559North Carolina: median $7,185 across 25 hospitalsNC$7,185South Carolina: median $4,464 across 21 hospitalsSC$4,464Oklahoma: median $1,496 across 21 hospitalsOK$1,496Louisiana: median $1,693 across 24 hospitalsLA$1,693Mississippi: median $3,220 across 10 hospitalsMS$3,220Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,256 across 49 hospitalsGA$6,256Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,448 across 110 hospitalsTX$4,448Florida: median $5,291 across 64 hospitalsFL$5,291
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,986. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$20,276+409%$20,276 – $23,855
Colorado CO20$9,549+140%$4,371 – $26,516
North Carolina NC25$7,185+80%$2,496 – $8,397
Georgia GA49$6,256+57%$1,915 – $22,908
Illinois IL38$5,565+40%$2,074 – $14,501
Indiana IN31$5,421+36%$2,384 – $9,922
Connecticut CT10$5,373+35%$3,110 – $8,565
Florida FL64$5,291+33%$2,178 – $6,698
Pennsylvania PA29$4,786+20%$1,040 – $32,058
New Jersey NJ24$4,500+13%$2,230 – $5,855
South Carolina SC21$4,464+12%$1,718 – $4,464
Texas TX110$4,448+12%$3,085 – $7,923
Ohio OH74$4,421+11%$1,967 – $9,237
Wisconsin WI33$4,365+10%$1,701 – $5,331
California CA113$3,880−3%$2,621 – $13,204
Missouri MO28$3,722−7%$1,608 – $5,737
Mississippi MS10$3,220−19%$618 – $3,320
Arizona AZ24$2,584−35%$2,127 – $13,363
Washington WA29$2,478−38%$1,112 – $7,598
Oregon OR22$2,451−39%$1,071 – $11,018
New York NY26$2,204−45%$1,026 – $3,438
Michigan MI49$2,202−45%$635 – $7,104
Virginia VA28$1,872−53%$1,559 – $10,999
Louisiana LA24$1,693−58%$772 – $3,405
Minnesota MN20$1,573−61%$1,485 – $13,999
Tennessee TN18$1,559−61%$791 – $3,419
Kentucky KY18$1,513−62%$581 – $39,092
Oklahoma OK21$1,496−62%$1,198 – $3,638
Nebraska NE11$1,485−63%$801 – $2,025
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $3,986.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care971$3,880$1,675 – $9,716
Children’s32$3,554$1,268 – $9,334
Critical access66$4,365$1,826 – $12,213
Ownership
For-profit96$4,904$2,068 – $13,363
Government112$4,113$1,477 – $8,815
Non-profit861$3,722$1,617 – $10,297
System affiliation
Part of a system984$4,068$1,775 – $10,999
Independent93$2,204$920 – $6,230

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,867
Median cash price$3,986
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

876 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,002 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,523; most fall between $1,701 and $10,977.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 876 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
$1,195$1,967$4,002$8,397$20,562

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,195 vs $20,562).

Of the 947 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 876 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,077 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,200 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,077
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
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 — excluded76
Hospitals that filed this code1,200

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 vascular catheterization, not heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Evasc Intracranial Prolng Admn Rx Agent Art 1st.

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, “Extended drug infusion into brain artery, first territory (CPT 61650) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61650-extended-drug-infusion-into-brain-artery-first-territory