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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures, female organs

Placement of radiation applicators in the uterus

CPT 57155the billing code this page is about

Applicators are placed into the uterus and vagina to hold radiation sources for internal radiation therapy; this code covers the placement, not the radiation dose itself.

Hospitals typically charge $3,575 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 899 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,671. Most fall between $1,303 and $6,602 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
899
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 899 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
$738$1,509$3,575$5,842$9,050

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($738 vs $9,050).

How the prices are spread

$471 – $658: 40 hospitals$471$658 – $918: 56 hospitals$918 – $1,281: 39 hospitals$918$1,281 – $1,789: 103 hospitals$1,789 – $2,497: 69 hospitals$1,789$2,497 – $3,485: 99 hospitals$3,485 – $4,865: 146 hospitals$3,485$4,865 – $6,791: 156 hospitals$6,791 – $9,479: 70 hospitals$6,791$9,479 – $13,232: 38 hospitals$9,479median $3,575price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (816 of 899 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$471$65840
$658$91856
$918$1,28139
$1,281$1,789103
$1,789$2,49769
$2,497$3,48599
$3,485$4,865146
$4,865$6,791156
$6,791$9,47970
$9,479$13,23238

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,111
Median cash price$3,575
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.70×

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 $3,575.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,575 across 17 hospitalsWA$3,575Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,643 across 13 hospitalsMN$2,643Illinois: median $3,370 across 41 hospitalsIL$3,370Wisconsin: median $1,762 across 24 hospitalsWI$1,762Michigan: median $1,762 across 39 hospitalsMI$1,762New York: median $4,595 across 55 hospitalsNY$4,595Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $4,435 across 20 hospitalsOR$4,435Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $955 across 16 hospitalsIA$955Indiana: median $2,352 across 27 hospitalsIN$2,352Ohio: median $3,250 across 46 hospitalsOH$3,250Pennsylvania: median $3,914 across 42 hospitalsPA$3,914New Jersey: median $5,469 across 44 hospitalsNJ$5,469Connecticut: median $2,469 across 10 hospitalsCT$2,469Rhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,253 across 59 hospitalsCA$6,253Utah: median $3,051 across 14 hospitalsUT$3,051Colorado: median $2,554 across 26 hospitalsCO$2,554Nebraska: median $1,820 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,820Missouri: median $3,489 across 11 hospitalsMO$3,489Kentucky: median $9,681 across 18 hospitalsKY$9,681West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,355 across 25 hospitalsVA$2,355Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $835 across 19 hospitalsTN$835North Carolina: median $1,339 across 25 hospitalsNC$1,339South Carolina: median $7,904 across 15 hospitalsSC$7,904Oklahoma: median $471 across 16 hospitalsOK$471Louisiana: median $2,128 across 14 hospitalsLA$2,128Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,871 across 36 hospitalsGA$3,871Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,940 across 66 hospitalsTX$3,940Florida: median $4,114 across 43 hospitalsFL$4,114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,575. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY18$9,681+171%$1,426 – $19,822
South Carolina SC15$7,904+121%$1,306 – $7,904
California CA59$6,253+75%$3,905 – $6,602
New Jersey NJ44$5,469+53%$4,350 – $6,982
New York NY55$4,595+29%$1,564 – $5,850
Oregon OR20$4,435+24%$738 – $4,860
Florida FL43$4,114+15%$3,578 – $7,694
Texas TX66$3,940+10%$1,509 – $5,201
Pennsylvania PA42$3,914+9%$271 – $8,346
Georgia GA36$3,871+8%$2,984 – $5,230
Washington WA17$3,5750%$3,418 – $5,315
Missouri MO11$3,489−2%$1,957 – $4,867
Illinois IL41$3,370−6%$955 – $5,108
Ohio OH46$3,250−9%$1,852 – $5,065
Utah UT14$3,051−15%$3,051 – $3,786
Minnesota MN13$2,643−26%$1,054 – $2,643
Colorado CO26$2,554−29%$2,518 – $6,291
Connecticut CT10$2,469−31%$1,627 – $4,754
Virginia VA25$2,355−34%$742 – $7,575
Indiana IN27$2,352−34%$1,532 – $4,881
Louisiana LA14$2,128−40%$1,175 – $4,601
Nebraska NE10$1,820−49%$784 – $1,820
Michigan MI39$1,762−51%$799 – $14,818
Wisconsin WI24$1,762−51%$1,762 – $3,375
North Carolina NC25$1,339−63%$1,176 – $3,395
Iowa IA16$955−73%$955 – $1,820
Tennessee TN19$835−77%$662 – $2,057
Oklahoma OK16$471−87%$471 – $3,437
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $3,575.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care824$3,728$1,306 – $6,475
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access61$1,786$910 – $6,706
Ownership
For-profit63$3,000$784 – $5,801
Government103$2,373$1,176 – $5,842
Non-profit727$3,728$1,395 – $6,602
System affiliation
Part of a system811$3,737$1,339 – $6,602
Independent88$2,057$825 – $6,139

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,130
Median cash price$3,575
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

669 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,120 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,269; most fall between $1,009 and $6,291.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 669 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
$684$1,462$3,120$5,275$8,832

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($684 vs $8,832).

Of the 710 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 669 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

899 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 967 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted899
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code967

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures, female organs family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Insert,Uterine Tandems &/or Vag Ovoids.

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 applicators in the uterus (CPT 57155) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-57155-placement-of-radiation-applicators-in-the-uterus