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

Placement of a vaginal radiation applicator

CPT 57156the billing code this page is about

A device is placed in the vagina to hold radiation sources for internal radiation treatment; this code covers the placement only.

Hospitals typically charge $749 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,037 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $785. Most fall between $353 and $1,322 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,037
States
50
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 1,037 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
$251$385$749$1,224$1,886

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($251 vs $1,886).

How the prices are spread

$175 – $233: 40 hospitals$175$233 – $312: 66 hospitals$312 – $417: 130 hospitals$312$417 – $558: 90 hospitals$558 – $746: 132 hospitals$558$746 – $998: 163 hospitals$998 – $1,335: 164 hospitals$998$1,335 – $1,785: 86 hospitals$1,785 – $2,386: 38 hospitals$1,785$2,386 – $3,191: 29 hospitals$2,386median $749price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (938 of 1,037 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$175$23340
$233$31266
$312$417130
$417$55890
$558$746132
$746$998163
$998$1,335164
$1,335$1,78586
$1,785$2,38638
$2,386$3,19129

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$311
Median cash price$749
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $749.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $710 across 20 hospitalsWA$710Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $560 across 15 hospitalsMN$560Illinois: median $620 across 37 hospitalsIL$620Wisconsin: median $749 across 41 hospitalsWI$749Michigan: median $749 across 41 hospitalsMI$749New York: median $362 across 40 hospitalsNY$362Massachusetts: median $695 across 13 hospitalsMA$695Oregon: median $772 across 20 hospitalsOR$772Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $538 across 18 hospitalsIA$538Indiana: median $1,221 across 25 hospitalsIN$1,221Ohio: median $909 across 64 hospitalsOH$909Pennsylvania: median $622 across 65 hospitalsPA$622New Jersey: median $1,621 across 46 hospitalsNJ$1,621Connecticut: median $598 across 12 hospitalsCT$598Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,322 across 83 hospitalsCA$1,322Utah: median $844 across 15 hospitalsUT$844Colorado: median $738 across 29 hospitalsCO$738Nebraska: median $268 across 12 hospitalsNE$268Missouri: median $511 across 19 hospitalsMO$511Kentucky: median $1,221 across 17 hospitalsKY$1,221West Virginia: median $382 across 12 hospitalsWV$382Virginia: median $377 across 26 hospitalsVA$377Maryland: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $224 across 31 hospitalsTN$224North Carolina: median $681 across 28 hospitalsNC$681South Carolina: median $565 across 27 hospitalsSC$565Oklahoma: median $251 across 13 hospitalsOK$251Louisiana: median $285 across 12 hospitalsLA$285Mississippi: median $263 across 10 hospitalsMS$263Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,112 across 53 hospitalsGA$1,112Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $967 across 65 hospitalsTX$967Florida: median $917 across 45 hospitalsFL$917
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $749. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ46$1,621+116%$337 – $4,500
California CA83$1,322+76%$656 – $1,952
Indiana IN25$1,221+63%$859 – $1,708
Kentucky KY17$1,221+63%$583 – $1,425
Georgia GA53$1,112+48%$681 – $1,493
Texas TX65$967+29%$536 – $1,163
Florida FL45$917+22%$671 – $1,224
Ohio OH64$909+21%$635 – $1,879
Utah UT15$844+13%$578 – $844
Oregon OR20$772+3%$423 – $898
Michigan MI41$7490%$419 – $1,098
Wisconsin WI41$7490%$385 – $880
Colorado CO29$738−2%$543 – $1,823
Washington WA20$710−5%$511 – $950
Massachusetts MA13$695−7%$521 – $1,647
North Carolina NC28$681−9%$391 – $1,339
Pennsylvania PA65$622−17%$242 – $1,521
Illinois IL37$620−17%$239 – $1,116
Connecticut CT12$598−20%$527 – $935
South Carolina SC27$565−25%$300 – $1,379
Minnesota MN15$560−25%$501 – $1,054
Iowa IA18$538−28%$538 – $622
Missouri MO19$511−32%$332 – $722
West Virginia WV12$382−49%$353 – $591
Virginia VA26$377−50%$146 – $1,082
New York NY40$362−52%$311 – $966
Louisiana LA12$285−62%$171 – $440
Nebraska NE12$268−64%$226 – $358
Mississippi MS10$263−65%$187 – $352
Oklahoma OK13$251−66%$251 – $620
Tennessee TN31$224−70%$160 – $335
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $749.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care949$749$351 – $1,339
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access74$749$417 – $1,098
Ownership
For-profit72$749$310 – $1,163
Government121$608$328 – $1,240
Non-profit838$749$358 – $1,322
System affiliation
Part of a system940$770$356 – $1,322
Independent97$603$327 – $1,117

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,300
Median cash price$749
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

814 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $844 and the average of the middle 60% is $834; most fall between $364 and $1,322.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 814 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
$251$423$844$1,272$1,823

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($251 vs $1,823).

Of the 856 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 814 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,037 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,109 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,037
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code1,109

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 Insertion Vaginal Radiation Device.

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 a vaginal radiation applicator (CPT 57156) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-57156-placement-of-a-vaginal-radiation-applicator