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Catheter for destroying tissue inside vessels, non-heart

HCPCS C1888the billing code this page is about

Charge for a catheter used inside blood vessels outside the heart to destroy targeted tissue; this covers the device only, billed per catheter.

Hospitals typically charge $1,172 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 146 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,426. Most fall between $722 and $2,495 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
146
States
26
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 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 146 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
$377$867$1,172$2,205$2,531

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($377 vs $2,531).

How the prices are spread

$235 – $305: 2 hospitals$235$305 – $396: 10 hospitals$396 – $515: 3 hospitals$396$515 – $669: 7 hospitals$669 – $869: 23 hospitals$669$869 – $1,129: 19 hospitals$1,129 – $1,466: 29 hospitals$1,129$1,466 – $1,904: 6 hospitals$1,904 – $2,473: 9 hospitals$1,904$2,473 – $3,212: 24 hospitals$2,473median $1,172price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (132 of 146 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$235$3052
$305$39610
$396$5153
$515$6697
$669$86923
$869$1,12919
$1,129$1,46629
$1,466$1,9046
$1,904$2,4739
$2,473$3,21224

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,172.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew 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: 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 $1,284 across 19 hospitalsIN$1,284Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $1,038 across 22 hospitalsUT$1,038Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $868 across 28 hospitalsTX$868Florida: median $377 across 13 hospitalsFL$377
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,172. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN19$1,284+10%$955 – $2,013
Utah UT22$1,038−11%$1,038 – $1,336
Texas TX28$868−26%$868 – $2,495
Florida FL13$377−68%$377 – $772
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $1,172.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care126$1,137$593 – $2,495
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit21$1,431$868 – $2,981
Government10fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit115$1,052$593 – $2,287
System affiliation
Part of a system131$1,108$660 – $2,495
Independent15fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,781
Median cash price$1,172
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

102 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,038 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,183; most fall between $772 and $2,416.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 102 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
$377$868$1,038$1,880$2,495

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($377 vs $2,495).

Of the 114 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 102 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

146 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 158 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted146
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here0
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code158

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 CATH ABLATION 7FRX60CM RFA PERIPHERAL VARICOSE VEIN.

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, “Catheter for destroying tissue inside vessels, non-heart (CPT C1888) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c1888-catheter-for-destroying-tissue-inside-vessels-non-heart