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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures, hemic and lymphatic system

Infusion of the patient's own CAR-T cells

CPT 38228the billing code this page is about

The engineered T cells made from the patient's own blood are given back through a vein.

Hospitals typically charge $956 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 405 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,289. Most fall between $412 and $2,947 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
405
States
45
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – 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 405 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
$363$508$956$2,819$5,198

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($363 vs $5,198).

How the prices are spread

$240 – $350: 11 hospitals$240$350 – $510: 72 hospitals$510 – $743: 73 hospitals$510$743 – $1,082: 49 hospitals$1,082 – $1,577: 25 hospitals$1,082$1,577 – $2,297: 21 hospitals$2,297 – $3,347: 58 hospitals$2,297$3,347 – $4,878: 33 hospitals$4,878 – $7,108: 11 hospitals$4,878$7,108 – $10,357: 12 hospitals$7,108median $956price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (365 of 405 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$240$35011
$350$51072
$510$74373
$743$1,08249
$1,082$1,57725
$1,577$2,29721
$2,297$3,34758
$3,347$4,87833
$4,878$7,10811
$7,108$10,35712

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$956
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $956.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $621 across 10 hospitalsIL$621Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $995 across 21 hospitalsMI$995New York: median $393 across 23 hospitalsNY$393Massachusetts: median $1,084 across 12 hospitalsMA$1,084Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $523 across 13 hospitalsIA$523Indiana: median $3,998 across 15 hospitalsIN$3,998Ohio: median $3,510 across 20 hospitalsOH$3,510Pennsylvania: median $390 across 27 hospitalsPA$390New Jersey: median $367 across 14 hospitalsNJ$367Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $722 across 32 hospitalsCA$722Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $508 across 10 hospitalsVA$508Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,531 across 12 hospitalsAZ$2,531New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $3,567 across 16 hospitalsNC$3,567South Carolina: median $598 across 10 hospitalsSC$598Oklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $1,563 across 14 hospitalsGA$1,563Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,819 across 38 hospitalsTX$2,819Florida: median $7,634 across 25 hospitalsFL$7,634
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $956. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL25$7,634+698%$1,161 – $19,315
Indiana IN15$3,998+318%$2,481 – $5,304
North Carolina NC16$3,567+273%$2,577 – $3,567
Ohio OH20$3,510+267%$711 – $3,961
Texas TX38$2,819+195%$1,270 – $2,819
Arizona AZ12$2,531+165%$409 – $2,531
Georgia GA14$1,563+63%$915 – $2,591
Massachusetts MA12$1,084+13%$1,039 – $1,274
Michigan MI21$995+4%$454 – $2,472
California CA32$722−24%$722 – $956
Illinois IL10$621−35%$178 – $2,265
South Carolina SC10$598−37%$598 – $598
Iowa IA13$523−45%$523 – $523
Virginia VA10$508−47%$508 – $2,482
New York NY23$393−59%$393 – $2,143
Pennsylvania PA27$390−59%$113 – $829
New Jersey NJ14$367−62%$367 – $660
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $956.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care363$875$393 – $2,819
Children’s23$2,375$1,107 – $7,705
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit35$1,687$539 – $2,819
Government49$1,476$393 – $3,567
Non-profit317$858$413 – $2,819
System affiliation
Part of a system379$956$412 – $2,988
Independent26$953$427 – $2,267

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,462
Median cash price$956
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

302 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,059 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,435; most fall between $523 and $2,819.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 302 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
$390$598$1,059$2,819$5,153

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($390 vs $5,153).

Of the 321 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 302 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

405 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 430 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted405
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code430

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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other therapeutic procedures, hemic and lymphatic system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC T Cell Product Infusion.

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, “Infusion of the patient's own CAR-T cells (CPT 38228) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38228-infusion-of-the-patient-s-own-car-t-cells