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Shock wave catheter to break up calcium in heart arteries

HCPCS C1761the billing code this page is about

Covers one catheter that delivers sound-wave pulses to crack hardened calcium deposits inside a coronary artery before it is opened; billed as a device charge for one catheter.

Hospitals typically charge $9,400 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 161 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $9,605. Most fall between $5,640 and $13,312 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
161
States
34
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Aug 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 161 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
$4,113$6,183$9,400$12,514$16,239

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,113 vs $16,239).

How the prices are spread

$3,555 – $4,278: 9 hospitals$3,555$4,278 – $5,149: 8 hospitals$5,149 – $6,197: 16 hospitals$5,149$6,197 – $7,458: 10 hospitals$7,458 – $8,975: 25 hospitals$7,458$8,975 – $10,801: 25 hospitals$10,801 – $12,999: 21 hospitals$10,801$12,999 – $15,644: 21 hospitals$15,644 – $18,828: 5 hospitals$15,644$18,828 – $22,659: 5 hospitals$18,828median $9,400price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (145 of 161 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3,555$4,2789
$4,278$5,1498
$5,149$6,19716
$6,197$7,45810
$7,458$8,97525
$8,975$10,80125
$10,801$12,99921
$12,999$15,64421
$15,644$18,8285
$18,828$22,6595

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $9,400.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 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 $7,794 across 16 hospitalsIN$7,794Ohio: median $12,334 across 22 hospitalsOH$12,334Pennsylvania: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $10,597 across 22 hospitalsUT$10,597Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $18,602 across 14 hospitalsVA$18,602Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 6 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $8,551 across 16 hospitalsFL$8,551
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $9,400. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA14$18,602+98%$4,442 – $24,435
Ohio OH22$12,334+31%$12,334 – $14,002
Utah UT22$10,597+13%$10,597 – $13,312
Florida FL16$8,551−9%$5,640 – $8,551
Indiana IN16$7,794−17%$6,823 – $11,024
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $9,400.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care139$8,551$5,640 – $13,312
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access21$10,597$8,512 – $12,334
Ownership
For-profit14fewer than 20 hospitals
Government16fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit131$10,282$6,183 – $13,312
System affiliation
Part of a system144$10,475$5,976 – $13,312
Independent17fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$17,750
Median cash price$9,400
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

132 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $9,593 and the average of the middle 60% is $10,006; most fall between $5,758 and $13,312.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 132 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
$4,425$6,768$9,593$12,690$16,615

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,425 vs $16,615).

Of the 148 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 132 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

161 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 178 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted161
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code178

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 CATHETER IVL SHOCKWAVE M5+ 5.0X60.

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, “Shock wave catheter to break up calcium in heart arteries (CPT C1761) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c1761-shock-wave-catheter-to-break-up-calcium-in-heart-arteries