Procedure price report

Shock wave opening of a lower leg artery with stent

HCPCS code HCPCS C9773the billing code this page is about

Catheter-based reopening of a blocked artery below the knee using shock wave energy on hardened plaque, balloon widening, and placement of a stent in one vessel branch.

Hospitals typically charge $20,908 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 167 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $22,295. Most fall between $14,741 and $34,946 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
167
States
31
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 167 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
$10,252$17,543$20,908$31,427$52,374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10,252 vs $52,374).

How the prices are spread

$9,239 – $11,085: 11 hospitals$9,239$11,085 – $13,299: 10 hospitals$13,299 – $15,957: 12 hospitals$13,299$15,957 – $19,145: 27 hospitals$19,145 – $22,970: 40 hospitals$19,145$22,970 – $27,559: 13 hospitals$27,559 – $33,066: 12 hospitals$27,559$33,066 – $39,672: 8 hospitals$39,672 – $47,599: 11 hospitals$39,672$47,599 – $57,109: 9 hospitals$47,599median $20,908price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (153 of 167 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9,239$11,08511
$11,085$13,29910
$13,299$15,95712
$15,957$19,14527
$19,145$22,97040
$22,970$27,55913
$27,559$33,06612
$33,066$39,6728
$39,672$47,59911
$47,599$57,1099

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$18,729
Median cash price$20,908
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $20,908.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $12,486 across 19 hospitalsIN$12,486Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $52,672 across 12 hospitalsPA$52,672New 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $18,817 across 22 hospitalsUT$18,817Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 3 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: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $19,729 across 31 hospitalsTX$19,729Florida: median $31,427 across 14 hospitalsFL$31,427
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $20,908. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA12$52,672+152%$35,643 – $53,688
Florida FL14$31,427+50%$10,252 – $31,427
Texas TX31$19,729−6%$18,790 – $22,322
Utah UT22$18,817−10%$18,817 – $20,908
Indiana IN19$12,486−40%$9,239 – $14,936
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not 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
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $20,908.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care150$22,322$14,936 – $35,446
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government13fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit137$20,908$14,936 – $35,446
System affiliation
Part of a system153$20,908$14,936 – $34,946
Independent14fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$37,204
Median cash price$20,908
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

133 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $20,908 and the average of the middle 60% is $21,770; most fall between $14,936 and $31,427.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 133 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
$12,008$18,106$20,908$31,427$44,588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12,008 vs $44,588).

Of the 141 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 133 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

167 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 177 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted167
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code177

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 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 Revasc Lithotr-Stent Tib/Per.

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, “Shock wave opening of a lower leg artery with stent (CPT C9773) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c9773-shock-wave-opening-of-a-lower-leg-artery-with-stent