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Drug-coated stent in a heart bypass graft

HCPCS C9604the billing code this page is about

Catheter procedure to reopen a blocked coronary bypass graft, or a heart artery reached through the graft, with placement of a medication-coated stent.

Hospitals typically charge $17,109 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 214 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $17,434. Most fall between $10,533 and $23,055 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
214
States
39
Filings dated
Nov 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 214 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
$7,793$11,846$17,109$22,217$27,702

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7,793 vs $27,702).

How the prices are spread

$6,617 – $7,727: 10 hospitals$6,617$7,727 – $9,024: 12 hospitals$9,024 – $10,538: 12 hospitals$9,024$10,538 – $12,306: 14 hospitals$12,306 – $14,370: 22 hospitals$12,306$14,370 – $16,781: 23 hospitals$16,781 – $19,597: 26 hospitals$16,781$19,597 – $22,885: 42 hospitals$22,885 – $26,724: 20 hospitals$22,885$26,724 – $31,208: 14 hospitals$26,724median $17,109price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (195 of 214 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6,617$7,72710
$7,727$9,02412
$9,024$10,53812
$10,538$12,30614
$12,306$14,37022
$14,370$16,78123
$16,781$19,59726
$19,597$22,88542
$22,885$26,72420
$26,724$31,20814

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$11,794
Median cash price$17,109
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.45×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $17,109.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth 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 $15,158 across 10 hospitalsMI$15,158New York: 7 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $8,559 across 19 hospitalsIN$8,559Ohio: median $20,446 across 12 hospitalsOH$20,446Pennsylvania: median $23,901 across 15 hospitalsPA$23,901New Jersey: 7 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: 9 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 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: 3 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 3 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 $21,790 across 30 hospitalsTX$21,790Florida: median $19,400 across 16 hospitalsFL$19,400
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $17,109. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA15$23,901+40%$13,297 – $24,503
Texas TX30$21,790+27%$21,754 – $22,625
Ohio OH12$20,446+20%$17,109 – $27,702
Florida FL16$19,400+13%$9,869 – $19,400
Michigan MI10$15,158−11%$12,692 – $23,793
Indiana IN19$8,559−50%$7,793 – $12,921
California CA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not 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
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not 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
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $17,109.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care198$17,109$11,030 – $22,625
Critical access14fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit39$15,130$7,793 – $22,617
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit155$18,525$11,382 – $23,793
System affiliation
Part of a system190$17,147$11,030 – $23,055
Independent24$13,160$7,154 – $21,636

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$31,208
Median cash price$17,109
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

161 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $18,769 and the average of the middle 60% is $18,054; most fall between $11,757 and $22,625.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, 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
$9,324$12,726$18,769$22,217$24,975

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 2.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9,324 vs $24,975).

Of the 169 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 161 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

214 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 229 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted214
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code229

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 D-E Cor Revasc T Cabg S.

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, “Drug-coated stent in a heart bypass graft (CPT C9604) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c9604-drug-coated-stent-in-a-heart-bypass-graft