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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Simple radiation therapy treatment planning

CPT 77261the billing code this page is about

The radiation oncologist's initial planning work for a straightforward case, covering one treatment area with a single method of radiation delivery.

Hospitals typically charge $176 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 209 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $200. Most fall between $95 and $385 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
209
States
40
Filings dated
Jan 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 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
$79$111$176$351$552

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $552).

How the prices are spread

$48 – $62: 6 hospitals$48$62 – $80: 6 hospitals$80 – $104: 27 hospitals$80$104 – $135: 26 hospitals$135 – $176: 30 hospitals$135$176 – $229: 21 hospitals$229 – $297: 16 hospitals$229$297 – $386: 27 hospitals$386 – $502: 6 hospitals$386$502 – $652: 25 hospitals$502median $176price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (190 of 209 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$48$626
$62$806
$80$10427
$104$13526
$135$17630
$176$22921
$229$29716
$297$38627
$386$5026
$502$65225

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $176.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $149 across 13 hospitalsIL$149Wisconsin: median $552 across 20 hospitalsWI$552Michigan: median $111 across 14 hospitalsMI$111New York: median $175 across 11 hospitalsNY$175Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $178 across 12 hospitalsOR$178Nevada: 1 hospital 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 $149 across 16 hospitalsIA$149Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $173 across 10 hospitalsOH$173Pennsylvania: median $51 across 16 hospitalsPA$51New Jersey: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $197 across 11 hospitalsWV$197Virginia: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $176. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI20$552+214%$351 – $552
West Virginia WV11$197+12%$162 – $289
Oregon OR12$178+1%$129 – $178
New York NY11$175−1%$123 – $227
Ohio OH10$173−1%$78 – $372
Iowa IA16$149−15%$149 – $185
Illinois IL13$149−15%$95 – $587
Michigan MI14$111−37%$97 – $552
Pennsylvania PA16$51−71%$44 – $245
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not 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 $176.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care168$157$95 – $372
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access36$220$111 – $552
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government22$199$111 – $306
Non-profit170$177$97 – $387
System affiliation
Part of a system172$175$95 – $446
Independent37$199$117 – $305

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$282
Median cash price$176
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

135 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $182 and the average of the middle 60% is $272; most fall between $107 and $552.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 135 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
$87$118$182$552$652

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $652).

Of the 186 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 135 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

209 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 296 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted209
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code296

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 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 Therapeutic radiology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Therapeutic Radiology Tx Planning Simple.

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, “Simple radiation therapy treatment planning (CPT 77261) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77261-simple-radiation-therapy-treatment-planning