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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Extended drug infusion into brain artery, added territory

CPT 61651the billing code this page is about

Add-on code for prolonged catheter delivery of medication into an artery inside the skull, billed once for each additional vascular territory treated in the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $2,593 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,025 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,966. Most fall between $783 and $7,016 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,025
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 1,025 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
$457$981$2,593$6,176$12,453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($457 vs $12,453).

How the prices are spread

$299 – $458: 52 hospitals$299$458 – $703: 87 hospitals$703 – $1,077: 91 hospitals$703$1,077 – $1,651: 91 hospitals$1,651 – $2,531: 129 hospitals$1,651$2,531 – $3,881: 152 hospitals$3,881 – $5,949: 99 hospitals$3,881$5,949 – $9,121: 125 hospitals$9,121 – $13,982: 56 hospitals$9,121$13,982 – $21,435: 41 hospitals$13,982median $2,593price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (923 of 1,025 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$299$45852
$458$70387
$703$1,07791
$1,077$1,65191
$1,651$2,531129
$2,531$3,881152
$3,881$5,94999
$5,949$9,121125
$9,121$13,98256
$13,982$21,43541

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,593.

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 $999 across 28 hospitalsWA$999Idaho: 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 $4,763 across 19 hospitalsMN$4,763Illinois: median $3,825 across 38 hospitalsIL$3,825Wisconsin: median $3,033 across 29 hospitalsWI$3,033Michigan: median $1,931 across 48 hospitalsMI$1,931New York: median $1,037 across 20 hospitalsNY$1,037Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $783 across 17 hospitalsOR$783Nevada: 6 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $4,840 across 31 hospitalsIN$4,840Ohio: median $2,562 across 70 hospitalsOH$2,562Pennsylvania: median $1,774 across 39 hospitalsPA$1,774New Jersey: median $4,627 across 21 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: median $2,285 across 10 hospitalsCT$2,285Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,624 across 108 hospitalsCA$2,624Utah: median $20,337 across 23 hospitalsUT$20,337Colorado: median $7,639 across 20 hospitalsCO$7,639Nebraska: median $675 across 11 hospitalsNE$675Missouri: median $2,869 across 25 hospitalsMO$2,869Kentucky: median $1,399 across 16 hospitalsKY$1,399West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,872 across 28 hospitalsVA$1,872Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,102 across 24 hospitalsAZ$1,102New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $791 across 18 hospitalsTN$791North Carolina: median $3,485 across 24 hospitalsNC$3,485South Carolina: median $1,971 across 18 hospitalsSC$1,971Oklahoma: median $750 across 21 hospitalsOK$750Louisiana: median $781 across 20 hospitalsLA$781Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,105 across 46 hospitalsGA$4,105Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,987 across 105 hospitalsTX$2,987Florida: median $4,019 across 59 hospitalsFL$4,019
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,593. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$20,337+684%$20,337 – $23,926
Colorado CO20$7,639+195%$1,017 – $21,213
Indiana IN31$4,840+87%$1,881 – $9,922
Minnesota MN19$4,763+84%$966 – $10,399
New Jersey NJ21$4,627+78%$973 – $5,741
Georgia GA46$4,105+58%$1,750 – $14,474
Florida FL59$4,019+55%$1,548 – $6,313
Illinois IL38$3,825+48%$1,251 – $6,721
North Carolina NC24$3,485+34%$1,074 – $3,485
Wisconsin WI29$3,033+17%$867 – $3,265
Texas TX105$2,987+15%$1,607 – $7,016
Missouri MO25$2,869+11%$856 – $3,512
California CA108$2,624+1%$1,128 – $8,467
Ohio OH70$2,562−1%$368 – $4,605
Connecticut CT10$2,285−12%$1,330 – $2,592
South Carolina SC18$1,971−24%$1,971 – $3,348
Michigan MI48$1,931−26%$262 – $3,529
Virginia VA28$1,872−28%$628 – $4,802
Pennsylvania PA39$1,774−32%$182 – $3,007
Kentucky KY16$1,399−46%$646 – $25,363
Arizona AZ24$1,102−57%$948 – $12,780
New York NY20$1,037−60%$306 – $3,150
Washington WA28$999−61%$474 – $3,799
Tennessee TN18$791−70%$624 – $4,467
Oregon OR17$783−70%$457 – $10,288
Louisiana LA20$781−70%$419 – $1,926
Oklahoma OK21$750−71%$515 – $2,886
Nebraska NE11$675−74%$341 – $939
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not 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
Maryland MD4not 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
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not 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
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 $2,593.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care930$2,562$791 – $6,999
Children’s30$1,388$474 – $6,865
Critical access58$3,033$646 – $19,184
Ownership
For-profit89$3,302$1,963 – $9,528
Government103$2,605$800 – $6,267
Non-profit826$2,391$719 – $6,999
System affiliation
Part of a system942$2,624$859 – $7,469
Independent83$1,444$478 – $4,758

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,393
Median cash price$2,593
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

845 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,562 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,938; most fall between $765 and $7,016.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 845 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
$476$1,024$2,562$6,023$12,780

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($476 vs $12,780).

Of the 907 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 845 gave a usable cash price; 23 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

1,025 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,133 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,025
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code1,133

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 Addl.

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, added territory (CPT 61651) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61651-extended-drug-infusion-into-brain-artery-added-territory