Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
1-Mechanical removal of intraluminal intracatheter obstructive material from central venous device through device lumen
Philadelphia, PA
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Inc.’s median price of $5.2k is 195% above the median hospital's median price ($1.8k), higher than 93% of the 1,815 hospitals reporting CPT 36596. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Mar 18, 2026
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