HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report

Drug-coated heart stent in each additional branch

HCPCS C9601the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for placing a medication-coated stent in each further branch of the same heart artery treated during the procedure; billed once per additional branch.

Hospitals typically charge $12,659 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 205 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $12,421. Most fall between $6,661 and $19,400 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
205
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 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 205 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
$5,383$6,661$12,659$19,201$24,235

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5,383 vs $24,235).

How the prices are spread

$3,875 – $4,752: 4 hospitals$3,875$4,752 – $5,827: 16 hospitals$5,827 – $7,146: 33 hospitals$5,827$7,146 – $8,763: 9 hospitals$8,763 – $10,746: 18 hospitals$8,763$10,746 – $13,179: 20 hospitals$13,179 – $16,161: 24 hospitals$13,179$16,161 – $19,819: 37 hospitals$19,819 – $24,304: 18 hospitals$19,819$24,304 – $29,804: 7 hospitals$24,304median $12,659price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (186 of 205 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3,875$4,7524
$4,752$5,82716
$5,827$7,14633
$7,146$8,7639
$8,763$10,74618
$10,746$13,17920
$13,179$16,16124
$16,161$19,81937
$19,819$24,30418
$24,304$29,8047

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $12,659.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $10,546 across 10 hospitalsMI$10,546New York: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $15,490 across 12 hospitalsOH$15,490Pennsylvania: median $6,692 across 13 hospitalsPA$6,692New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $10,212 across 10 hospitalsCA$10,212Utah: median $6,661 across 21 hospitalsUT$6,661Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $19,201 across 16 hospitalsTX$19,201Florida: median $19,400 across 16 hospitalsFL$19,400
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $12,659. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL16$19,400+53%$5,383 – $19,400
Texas TX16$19,201+52%$19,201 – $19,201
Ohio OH12$15,490+22%$12,659 – $22,641
Michigan MI10$10,546−17%$10,054 – $13,881
California CA10$10,212−19%$1,417 – $14,238
Pennsylvania PA13$6,692−47%$6,244 – $9,643
Utah UT21$6,661−47%$6,661 – $6,661
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $12,659.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care191$12,659$6,661 – $19,400
Critical access12fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit34$13,881$6,822 – $19,400
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit152$12,582$6,661 – $19,759
System affiliation
Part of a system183$12,659$6,661 – $19,400
Independent22$11,025$5,149 – $19,928

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$22,676
Median cash price$12,659
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

168 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $10,898 and the average of the middle 60% is $11,592; most fall between $6,661 and $19,201.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 168 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
$5,383$6,661$10,898$19,201$22,641

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5,383 vs $22,641).

Of the 193 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 168 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 14 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

205 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 235 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted205
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded14
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code235

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Perc Drug-Elute Cor Stent Addl Branch.

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, “Drug-coated heart stent in each additional branch (CPT C9601) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c9601-drug-coated-heart-stent-in-each-additional-branch