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Giving the third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

CPT 0003Athe billing code this page is about

Covers the work of giving one injection: the third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (30 mcg per 0.3 mL). The vaccine product itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $48 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 245 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $45. Most fall between $23 and $72 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
245
States
41
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 245 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
$17$30$48$61$96

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $96).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $19: 23 hospitals$15$19 – $23: 15 hospitals$23 – $29: 9 hospitals$23$29 – $35: 22 hospitals$35 – $44: 32 hospitals$35$44 – $54: 57 hospitals$54 – $67: 22 hospitals$54$67 – $83: 20 hospitals$83 – $103: 12 hospitals$83$103 – $128: 10 hospitals$103median $48price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (222 of 245 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$1923
$19$2315
$23$299
$29$3522
$35$4432
$44$5457
$54$6722
$67$8320
$83$10312
$103$12810

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $48.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $64 across 17 hospitalsIL$64Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $47 across 16 hospitalsNY$47Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $17 across 10 hospitalsIN$17Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $53 across 12 hospitalsCO$53Nebraska: median $36 across 13 hospitalsNE$36Missouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $21 across 14 hospitalsMS$21Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $48 across 35 hospitalsTX$48Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $48. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL17$64+35%$17 – $119
Colorado CO12$53+11%$53 – $53
Texas TX35$48+1%$48 – $48
New York NY16$47−1%$42 – $141
Nebraska NE13$36−25%$31 – $61
Mississippi MS14$21−55%$19 – $38
Indiana IN10$17−64%$17 – $52
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $48.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care182$48$21 – $72
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access55$39$26 – $68
Ownership
For-profit29$48$17 – $70
Government30$38$16 – $72
Non-profit186$48$26 – $73
System affiliation
Part of a system203$45$21 – $70
Independent42$51$38 – $80

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$80
Median cash price$48
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

188 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $48 and the average of the middle 60% is $45; most fall between $25 and $72.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 188 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
$17$29$48$60$96

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $96).

Of the 198 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 188 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

245 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 257 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted245
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code257

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 23, 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 All Outpatient.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Giving the third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine (CPT 0003A) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0003a-giving-the-third-dose-of-the-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine