CPT 36228 · 999 hospitals reporting

Place cath intracranial art

The same procedure costs $162 at one hospital and $31,951 at another — a 198× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $2,210.

Cheapest published

$162

3 entries below $50 already filtered. Remaining low values usually reflect partial-cost line items (professional fee only), not full bills.

Median across 999 hospitals

$2,210

The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

$31,951

Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

402 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

500 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
CAPITAL HEALTH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	NJ	$5,526	$2,210	—	—	0 insurers
MULTICARE AUBURN MEDICAL CENTER	WA	$5,526	$2,210	—	—	1 insurers
TACOMA GENERAL ALLENMORE HOSPITAL	WA	$5,526	$2,210	—	—	0 insurers
MULTICARE COVINGTON MEDICAL CENTER	WA	$5,526	$2,210	—	—	0 insurers
ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL	IL	$4,410	$2,205	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE GOOD SHEPHERD HOSPITAL	IL	$4,380	$2,190	—	—	5 insurers
VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER	WA	$3,213	$2,249	$1,282	$2,871	0 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL	HI	$5,803	$2,263	$1,219	$4,352	3 insurers
BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER	LA	$3,078	$2,154	—	—	5 insurers
THE GENERAL	LA	$3,078	$2,154	—	—	5 insurers
LANAI COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	HI	$5,828	$2,273	—	—	1 insurers
ST JOHN'S RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL	NY	$2,522	$2,144	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL	IL	$4,560	$2,280	—	—	5 insurers
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CENTER	MS	$5,207	$2,083	—	—	5 insurers
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER- GRENADA	MS	$5,207	$2,083	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE TRINITY HOSPITAL	IL	$4,140	$2,070	—	—	5 insurers
ST LUKE'S PATIENTS MEDICAL CENTER	TX	$5,786	$2,025	$3,761	$4,340	5 insurers
ST LUKE'S PATIENTS MEDICAL CENTER	TX	$5,786	$2,025	$385	$9,158	5 insurers
BAXTER HEALTH	AR	$4,042	$2,425	—	—	1 insurers
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	WA	$6,095	$2,438	—	—	0 insurers
PALMDALE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	CA	$4,923	$1,969	—	—	5 insurers
CORONA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	CA	$4,923	$1,969	—	—	5 insurers
SOUTHWEST HEALTHCARE SERVICES	ND	$4,923	$1,969	—	—	5 insurers
UNM HOSPITAL	NM	$3,559	$1,957	—	—	5 insurers
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER	CT	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	5 insurers
WEST BOCA MEDICAL CENTER	FL	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	4 insurers
FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER	IA	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER SHEBOYGAN COUNTY	WI	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER	WI	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	5 insurers
WEST ALLIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	WI	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	4 insurers
AURORA BAYCARE MEDICAL CTR	WI	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER - SUMMIT	WI	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER	WI	$3,880	$1,940	—	—	5 insurers
SAINT ROSE DOMINICAN HOSPITALS - SIENA CAMPUS	NV	$8,496	$1,929	$2,549	$6,117	4 insurers
SAINT ROSE DOMINICAN HOSPITALS - SIENA CAMPUS	NV	$8,496	$1,929	$213	$32,295	5 insurers
MOSAIC LIFE CARE AT ST JOSEPH	MO	$2,253	$1,915	—	—	3 insurers
MOSAIC MEDICAL CENTER ALBANY	MO	$2,253	$1,915	—	—	2 insurers
UCHEALTH HIGHLANDS RANCH HOSPITAL	CO	$8,366	$2,510	—	—	5 insurers
BEEBE MEDICAL CENTER	DE	$2,239	$1,903	—	—	0 insurers
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL	CT	$4,990	$2,545	—	—	5 insurers