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Superficial radiation treatment, one session

CPT 77401the billing code this page is about

Delivery of low-energy radiation to a surface area such as the skin; billed for each treatment session.

Hospitals typically charge $220 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 363 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $252. Most fall between $91 and $536 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
363
States
39
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 363 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
$65$120$220$432$1,042

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($65 vs $1,042).

How the prices are spread

$39 – $55: 14 hospitals$39$55 – $78: 37 hospitals$78 – $111: 26 hospitals$78$111 – $157: 54 hospitals$157 – $223: 43 hospitals$157$223 – $318: 43 hospitals$318 – $451: 51 hospitals$318$451 – $642: 28 hospitals$642 – $912: 14 hospitals$642$912 – $1,297: 27 hospitals$912median $220price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (337 of 363 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$39$5514
$55$7837
$78$11126
$111$15754
$157$22343
$223$31843
$318$45151
$451$64228
$642$91214
$912$1,29727

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $220.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 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 $74 across 14 hospitalsIL$74Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $163 across 11 hospitalsMI$163New York: median $130 across 21 hospitalsNY$130Massachusetts: median $398 across 10 hospitalsMA$398Oregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $74 across 11 hospitalsIA$74Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $202 across 24 hospitalsPA$202New Jersey: median $121 across 12 hospitalsNJ$121Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $576 across 21 hospitalsCA$576Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $422 across 19 hospitalsCO$422Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $82 across 18 hospitalsOK$82Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $257 across 21 hospitalsGA$257Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $203 across 42 hospitalsTX$203Florida: median $425 across 35 hospitalsFL$425
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $220. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA21$576+162%$476 – $1,213
Florida FL35$425+93%$214 – $582
Colorado CO19$422+92%$343 – $1,042
Massachusetts MA10$398+81%$332 – $515
Georgia GA21$257+17%$257 – $1,297
Texas TX42$203−8%$131 – $353
Pennsylvania PA24$202−8%$152 – $1,360
Michigan MI11$163−26%$134 – $360
New York NY21$130−41%$101 – $173
New Jersey NJ12$121−45%$121 – $129
Oklahoma OK18$82−63%$65 – $223
Iowa IA11$74−66%$74 – $74
Illinois IL14$74−66%$39 – $234
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $220.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care336$226$98 – $543
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access22$203$39 – $372
Ownership
For-profit51$274$124 – $649
Government44$130$94 – $459
Non-profit266$255$88 – $536
System affiliation
Part of a system325$230$101 – $515
Independent38$124$74 – $614

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$491
Median cash price$220
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

275 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $294 and the average of the middle 60% is $294; most fall between $88 and $576.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 275 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
$68$131$294$484$1,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($68 vs $1,210).

Of the 302 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 275 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

363 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 395 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted363
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code395

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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radiation Tx Delivery Superficial&/Ortho Voltage.

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, “Superficial radiation treatment, one session (CPT 77401) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77401-superficial-radiation-treatment-one-session