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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Simple setup session for radiation treatment

CPT 77280the billing code this page is about

One simulation session using imaging to map a single radiation treatment area and mark the body position before therapy begins.

Hospitals typically charge $788 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,723 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $793. Most fall between $332 and $1,388 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,723
States
50
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 1,723 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
$185$414$788$1,226$2,185

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($185 vs $2,185).

How the prices are spread

$140 – $189: 88 hospitals$140$189 – $254: 80 hospitals$254 – $343: 102 hospitals$254$343 – $463: 126 hospitals$463 – $625: 185 hospitals$463$625 – $844: 284 hospitals$844 – $1,138: 289 hospitals$844$1,138 – $1,536: 181 hospitals$1,536 – $2,073: 119 hospitals$1,536$2,073 – $2,797: 101 hospitals$2,073median $788price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,555 of 1,723 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$140$18988
$189$25480
$254$343102
$343$463126
$463$625185
$625$844284
$844$1,138289
$1,138$1,536181
$1,536$2,073119
$2,073$2,797101

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$137
Median cash price$788
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.7×

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 $788.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $655 across 42 hospitalsWA$655Idaho: median $943 across 13 hospitalsID$943Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $964 across 35 hospitalsMN$964Illinois: median $1,015 across 70 hospitalsIL$1,015Wisconsin: median $825 across 65 hospitalsWI$825Michigan: median $516 across 58 hospitalsMI$516New York: median $547 across 75 hospitalsNY$547Massachusetts: median $835 across 30 hospitalsMA$835Oregon: median $760 across 32 hospitalsOR$760Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $762 across 28 hospitalsIA$762Indiana: median $806 across 58 hospitalsIN$806Ohio: median $739 across 83 hospitalsOH$739Pennsylvania: median $778 across 89 hospitalsPA$778New Jersey: median $291 across 47 hospitalsNJ$291Connecticut: median $870 across 15 hospitalsCT$870Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,887 across 112 hospitalsCA$1,887Utah: median $1,229 across 16 hospitalsUT$1,229Colorado: median $1,062 across 35 hospitalsCO$1,062Nebraska: median $798 across 18 hospitalsNE$798Missouri: median $791 across 39 hospitalsMO$791Kentucky: median $533 across 29 hospitalsKY$533West Virginia: median $503 across 14 hospitalsWV$503Virginia: median $636 across 46 hospitalsVA$636Maryland: median $977 across 30 hospitalsMD$977Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $536 across 14 hospitalsAZ$536New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $919 across 19 hospitalsKS$919Arkansas: median $230 across 12 hospitalsAR$230Tennessee: median $313 across 49 hospitalsTN$313North Carolina: median $820 across 56 hospitalsNC$820South Carolina: median $731 across 40 hospitalsSC$731Oklahoma: median $410 across 30 hospitalsOK$410Louisiana: median $282 across 28 hospitalsLA$282Mississippi: median $286 across 26 hospitalsMS$286Alabama: median $443 across 26 hospitalsAL$443Georgia: median $884 across 63 hospitalsGA$884Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $851 across 117 hospitalsTX$851Florida: median $898 across 89 hospitalsFL$898
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $788. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA112$1,887+140%$851 – $2,754
Utah UT16$1,229+56%$1,229 – $1,663
Colorado CO35$1,062+35%$874 – $2,959
Illinois IL70$1,015+29%$475 – $1,525
Maryland MD30$977+24%$547 – $1,411
Minnesota MN35$964+22%$277 – $2,240
Idaho ID13$943+20%$451 – $943
Kansas KS19$919+17%$126 – $1,547
Florida FL89$898+14%$484 – $1,946
Georgia GA63$884+12%$607 – $1,881
Connecticut CT15$870+10%$531 – $1,244
Texas TX117$851+8%$588 – $1,691
Massachusetts MA30$835+6%$439 – $1,388
Wisconsin WI65$825+5%$229 – $1,380
North Carolina NC56$820+4%$365 – $1,126
Indiana IN58$806+2%$498 – $1,118
Nebraska NE18$798+1%$385 – $1,277
Missouri MO39$7910%$532 – $1,291
Pennsylvania PA89$778−1%$194 – $1,607
Iowa IA28$762−3%$135 – $1,133
Oregon OR32$760−3%$353 – $1,170
Ohio OH83$739−6%$595 – $1,192
South Carolina SC40$731−7%$600 – $930
Washington WA42$655−17%$319 – $950
Virginia VA46$636−19%$495 – $1,034
New York NY75$547−31%$157 – $1,560
Arizona AZ14$536−32%$433 – $813
Kentucky KY29$533−32%$271 – $2,630
Michigan MI58$516−34%$229 – $762
West Virginia WV14$503−36%$150 – $584
Alabama AL26$443−44%$148 – $1,983
Oklahoma OK30$410−48%$351 – $853
Tennessee TN49$313−60%$183 – $669
New Jersey NJ47$291−63%$155 – $1,165
Mississippi MS26$286−64%$169 – $299
Louisiana LA28$282−64%$212 – $536
Arkansas AR12$230−71%$155 – $566
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not 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 $788.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,547$789$346 – $1,418
Children’s31$1,340$370 – $1,953
Critical access135$599$209 – $1,082
Ownership
For-profit213$789$342 – $2,047
Government194$670$212 – $1,064
Non-profit1,306$789$346 – $1,411
System affiliation
Part of a system1,516$795$346 – $1,443
Independent207$634$273 – $1,146

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,391
Median cash price$788
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

1,278 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $808 and the average of the middle 60% is $829; most fall between $410 and $1,383.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,278 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
$240$481$808$1,226$2,125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($240 vs $2,125).

Of the 1,402 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,278 gave a usable cash price; 67 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,723 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,904 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,723
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here114
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 — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,904

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 Therapeutic radiology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ther Rad Simulaj-Aided Field Setting Simple|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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 setup session for radiation treatment (CPT 77280) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77280-simple-setup-session-for-radiation-treatment