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Balloon tissue-separating catheter, non-blood-vessel

HCPCS C1727the billing code this page is about

Covers one balloon catheter used to separate tissue planes outside the blood vessels, for example to create a working space during surgery; billed as a device charge for one item.

Hospitals typically charge $343 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 136 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $416. Most fall between $75 and $986 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
136
States
26
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Jul 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 136 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
$57$85$343$860$1,868

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 33× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $1,868).

How the prices are spread

$42 – $66: 11 hospitals$42$66 – $104: 19 hospitals$104 – $164: 24 hospitals$104$164 – $258: 4 hospitals$258 – $407: 5 hospitals$258$407 – $641: 20 hospitals$641 – $1,010: 20 hospitals$641$1,010 – $1,593: 12 hospitals$1,593 – $2,511: 7 hospitals$1,593$2,511 – $3,958: 2 hospitals$2,511median $343price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (124 of 136 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$42$6611
$66$10419
$104$16424
$164$2584
$258$4075
$407$64120
$641$1,01020
$1,010$1,59312
$1,593$2,5117
$2,511$3,9582

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $343.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMINew York: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $860 across 16 hospitalsIN$860Ohio: median $84 across 21 hospitalsOH$84Pennsylvania: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $136 across 13 hospitalsVA$136Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $607 across 15 hospitalsTX$607Florida: median $114 across 15 hospitalsFL$114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $343. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN16$860+151%$643 – $1,162
Texas TX15$607+77%$607 – $607
Virginia VA13$136−60%$111 – $664
Florida FL15$114−67%$22 – $114
Ohio OH21$84−76%$74 – $141
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $343.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care119$343$74 – $986
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government10fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit106$196$74 – $864
System affiliation
Part of a system122$289$74 – $951
Independent14fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$604
Median cash price$343
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.

How complete is this

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

What the 144 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted136
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code144

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as BALLOON PRESS REG AMS 800 61-70CM/H2O.

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 tissue-separating catheter, non-blood-vessel (CPT C1727) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c1727-balloon-tissue-separating-catheter-non-blood-vessel