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Heart stent with plaque removal, each added branch

HCPCS C9603the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for plaque removal plus a medication-coated stent in each further branch of the same heart artery; billed once per additional branch.

Hospitals typically charge $14,299 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 121 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $14,672. Most fall between $6,692 and $23,055 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
121
States
33
Filings dated
Dec 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 121 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$7,728$14,299$19,621$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

$2,811 – $3,613: 3 hospitals$2,811$3,613 – $4,643: 2 hospitals$4,643 – $5,967: 6 hospitals$4,643$5,967 – $7,669: 13 hospitals$7,669 – $9,856: 11 hospitals$7,669$9,856 – $12,667: 12 hospitals$12,667 – $16,280: 12 hospitals$12,667$16,280 – $20,923: 30 hospitals$20,923 – $26,890: 16 hospitals$20,923$26,890 – $34,558: 5 hospitals$26,890median $14,299price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (110 of 121 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$2,811$3,6133
$3,613$4,6432
$4,643$5,9676
$5,967$7,66913
$7,669$9,85611
$9,856$12,66712
$12,667$16,28012
$16,280$20,92330
$20,923$26,89016
$26,890$34,5585

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $14,299.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 5 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 7 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 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: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $19,621 across 16 hospitalsTX$19,621Florida: median $19,400 across 15 hospitalsFL$19,400
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $14,299. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX16$19,621+37%$19,621 – $19,621
Florida FL15$19,400+36%$5,383 – $19,400
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not 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
New York NY2not 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
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not 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
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $14,299.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care114$13,600$6,692 – $19,790
Critical access6fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit20$18,025$6,251 – $19,621
Government12fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit88$15,587$7,035 – $23,961
System affiliation
Part of a system107$15,587$6,868 – $23,055
Independent14fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$28,819
Median cash price$14,299
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

106 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $13,461 and the average of the middle 60% is $14,420; most fall between $7,035 and $19,621.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 106 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$8,607$13,461$19,621$24,235

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

Of the 129 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 106 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 15 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

121 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 150 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted121
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded15
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code150

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 5, 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 D-E Cor Stent Ather Br.

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, “Heart stent with plaque removal, each added branch (CPT C9603) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c9603-heart-stent-with-plaque-removal-each-added-branch