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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray guidance for placing a central IV catheter

CPT 77001the billing code this page is about

Live X-ray imaging used to guide placement, replacement or removal of a central venous catheter or port, including any contrast injection to check catheter position.

Hospitals typically charge $458 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,757 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $474. Most fall between $195 and $862 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,757
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,757 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
$124$232$458$765$1,404

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $1,404).

How the prices are spread

$75 – $103: 72 hospitals$75$103 – $143: 166 hospitals$143 – $199: 193 hospitals$143$199 – $276: 261 hospitals$276 – $382: 361 hospitals$276$382 – $530: 381 hospitals$530 – $735: 437 hospitals$530$735 – $1,020: 333 hospitals$1,020 – $1,415: 144 hospitals$1,020$1,415 – $1,962: 135 hospitals$1,415median $458price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,483 of 2,757 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$75$10372
$103$143166
$143$199193
$199$276261
$276$382361
$382$530381
$530$735437
$735$1,020333
$1,020$1,415144
$1,415$1,962135

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $458.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $242 across 23 hospitalsME$242Vermont: median $546 across 11 hospitalsVT$546New Hampshire: median $571 across 17 hospitalsNH$571Washington: median $421 across 55 hospitalsWA$421Idaho: median $522 across 18 hospitalsID$522Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $401 across 12 hospitalsND$401Minnesota: median $486 across 71 hospitalsMN$486Illinois: median $495 across 118 hospitalsIL$495Wisconsin: median $416 across 100 hospitalsWI$416Michigan: median $232 across 71 hospitalsMI$232New York: median $332 across 88 hospitalsNY$332Massachusetts: median $392 across 49 hospitalsMA$392Oregon: median $305 across 43 hospitalsOR$305Nevada: median $555 across 13 hospitalsNV$555Wyoming: median $240 across 11 hospitalsWY$240South Dakota: median $786 across 17 hospitalsSD$786Iowa: median $447 across 67 hospitalsIA$447Indiana: median $276 across 73 hospitalsIN$276Ohio: median $428 across 136 hospitalsOH$428Pennsylvania: median $450 across 100 hospitalsPA$450New Jersey: median $264 across 42 hospitalsNJ$264Connecticut: median $455 across 20 hospitalsCT$455Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $747 across 199 hospitalsCA$747Utah: median $825 across 34 hospitalsUT$825Colorado: median $596 across 60 hospitalsCO$596Nebraska: median $829 across 60 hospitalsNE$829Missouri: median $395 across 63 hospitalsMO$395Kentucky: median $400 across 47 hospitalsKY$400West Virginia: median $279 across 30 hospitalsWV$279Virginia: median $376 across 62 hospitalsVA$376Maryland: median $93 across 28 hospitalsMD$93Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $282 across 46 hospitalsAZ$282New Mexico: median $309 across 18 hospitalsNM$309Kansas: median $379 across 56 hospitalsKS$379Arkansas: median $175 across 27 hospitalsAR$175Tennessee: median $239 across 65 hospitalsTN$239North Carolina: median $401 across 88 hospitalsNC$401South Carolina: median $856 across 47 hospitalsSC$856Oklahoma: median $257 across 48 hospitalsOK$257Louisiana: median $206 across 49 hospitalsLA$206Mississippi: median $205 across 41 hospitalsMS$205Alabama: median $412 across 36 hospitalsAL$412Georgia: median $515 across 84 hospitalsGA$515Hawaii: median $272 across 14 hospitalsHI$272Texas: median $568 across 204 hospitalsTX$568Florida: median $862 across 163 hospitalsFL$862
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $458. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL163$862+88%$507 – $2,494
South Carolina SC47$856+87%$488 – $888
Nebraska NE60$829+81%$477 – $1,127
Utah UT34$825+80%$604 – $825
South Dakota SD17$786+71%$758 – $1,295
California CA199$747+63%$339 – $1,659
Colorado CO60$596+30%$229 – $1,384
New Hampshire NH17$571+25%$293 – $801
Texas TX204$568+24%$303 – $1,337
Nevada NV13$555+21%$218 – $1,808
Vermont VT11$546+19%$234 – $1,212
Idaho ID18$522+14%$373 – $848
Georgia GA84$515+12%$189 – $1,023
Illinois IL118$495+8%$198 – $900
Minnesota MN71$486+6%$283 – $562
Connecticut CT20$455−1%$260 – $694
Pennsylvania PA100$450−2%$183 – $933
Iowa IA67$447−2%$228 – $716
Ohio OH136$428−6%$273 – $790
Washington WA55$421−8%$235 – $671
Wisconsin WI100$416−9%$135 – $615
Alabama AL36$412−10%$182 – $858
North Dakota ND12$401−12%$254 – $490
North Carolina NC88$401−12%$279 – $673
Kentucky KY47$400−13%$222 – $982
Missouri MO63$395−14%$235 – $650
Massachusetts MA49$392−14%$177 – $950
Kansas KS56$379−17%$144 – $607
Virginia VA62$376−18%$252 – $774
New York NY88$332−28%$166 – $608
New Mexico NM18$309−32%$111 – $683
Oregon OR43$305−33%$246 – $671
Arizona AZ46$282−38%$130 – $1,219
West Virginia WV30$279−39%$135 – $390
Indiana IN73$276−40%$157 – $569
Hawaii HI14$272−41%$218 – $347
New Jersey NJ42$264−42%$138 – $960
Oklahoma OK48$257−44%$104 – $555
Maine ME23$242−47%$103 – $589
Wyoming WY11$240−48%$133 – $503
Tennessee TN65$239−48%$69 – $408
Michigan MI71$232−49%$135 – $517
Louisiana LA49$206−55%$130 – $477
Mississippi MS41$205−55%$98 – $385
Arkansas AR27$175−62%$133 – $412
Maryland MD28$93−80%$70 – $125
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $458.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,126$474$202 – $891
Children’s60$637$252 – $1,175
Critical access561$365$149 – $700
Ownership
For-profit421$652$252 – $1,901
Government424$364$158 – $676
Non-profit1,902$450$201 – $825
System affiliation
Part of a system2,308$475$206 – $890
Independent449$334$142 – $671

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$758
Median cash price$458
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,969 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $477 and the average of the middle 60% is $491; most fall between $207 and $848.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,969 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
$129$257$477$755$1,208

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($129 vs $1,208).

Of the 2,217 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,969 gave a usable cash price; 135 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,757 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,140 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,757
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here206
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded174
Hospitals that filed this code3,140

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 diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Fluoro Central Venous Access Dev Placement.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “X-ray guidance for placing a central IV catheter (CPT 77001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77001-x-ray-guidance-for-placing-a-central-iv-catheter