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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Placement of radiation needles in the head or neck

CPT 41019the billing code this page is about

Insertion of needles or catheters into head or neck tissue so radioactive sources can later be placed for internal radiation treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $4,556 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 304 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,840. Most fall between $1,071 and $7,885 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
304
States
34
Filings dated
Jun 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 304 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
$557$1,234$4,556$7,623$10,413

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($557 vs $10,413).

How the prices are spread

$508 – $721: 18 hospitals$508$721 – $1,023: 27 hospitals$1,023 – $1,451: 24 hospitals$1,023$1,451 – $2,059: 6 hospitals$2,059 – $2,922: 12 hospitals$2,059$2,922 – $4,145: 25 hospitals$4,145 – $5,882: 52 hospitals$4,145$5,882 – $8,345: 78 hospitals$8,345 – $11,840: 19 hospitals$8,345$11,840 – $16,798: 13 hospitals$11,840median $4,556price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (274 of 304 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$508$72118
$721$1,02327
$1,023$1,45124
$1,451$2,0596
$2,059$2,92212
$2,922$4,14525
$4,145$5,88252
$5,882$8,34578
$8,345$11,84019
$11,840$16,79813

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$4,556
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $4,556.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $767 across 10 hospitalsIL$767Wisconsin: median $4,393 across 14 hospitalsWI$4,393Michigan: median $3,141 across 14 hospitalsMI$3,141New York: median $7,000 across 19 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,234 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,234Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $332 across 14 hospitalsPA$332New Jersey: median $6,465 across 24 hospitalsNJ$6,465Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,885 across 44 hospitalsCA$7,885Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: median $26,574 across 10 hospitalsKY$26,574West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: median $809 across 12 hospitalsOK$809Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $4,556 across 19 hospitalsTX$4,556Florida: median $4,590 across 23 hospitalsFL$4,590
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,556. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY10$26,574+483%$518 – $26,574
California CA44$7,885+73%$7,623 – $7,885
New York NY19$7,000+54%$2,717 – $7,027
New Jersey NJ24$6,465+42%$4,881 – $6,967
Florida FL23$4,590+1%$3,429 – $8,702
Texas TX19$4,5560%$4,556 – $4,556
Wisconsin WI14$4,393−4%$4,393 – $4,393
Michigan MI14$3,141−31%$879 – $8,140
Iowa IA14$1,234−73%$1,234 – $1,422
Oklahoma OK12$809−82%$809 – $809
Illinois IL10$767−83%$518 – $1,153
Pennsylvania PA14$332−93%$305 – $6,936
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not 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 $4,556.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care273$4,590$1,153 – $7,885
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access26$4,393$739 – $4,556
Ownership
For-profit32$3,429$656 – $10,413
Government33$5,679$996 – $7,264
Non-profit237$4,556$1,153 – $7,885
System affiliation
Part of a system271$4,556$1,153 – $7,885
Independent33$3,212$849 – $7,829

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,410
Median cash price$4,556
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

209 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,393 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,381; most fall between $996 and $7,885.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 209 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
$557$1,234$4,393$7,885$10,413

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($557 vs $10,413).

Of the 218 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 209 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

304 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 330 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted304
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code330

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 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.

Related procedures

Part of the Therapeutic radiology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Placement Needle Head/Neck Radioelement Applicat.

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, “Placement of radiation needles in the head or neck (CPT 41019) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41019-placement-of-radiation-needles-in-the-head-or-neck