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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Radiation treatment delivery, simple

CPT 77402the billing code this page is about

One session of external beam radiation at the simple level, meaning a straightforward setup and beam arrangement.

Hospitals typically charge $495 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,538 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $528. Most fall between $211 and $1,038 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,538
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 1,538 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
$144$270$495$874$1,533

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($144 vs $1,533).

How the prices are spread

$114 – $152: 106 hospitals$114$152 – $202: 111 hospitals$202 – $269: 88 hospitals$202$269 – $358: 147 hospitals$358 – $476: 220 hospitals$358$476 – $634: 202 hospitals$634 – $844: 175 hospitals$634$844 – $1,124: 138 hospitals$1,124 – $1,496: 114 hospitals$1,124$1,496 – $1,991: 93 hospitals$1,496median $495price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,394 of 1,538 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$114$152106
$152$202111
$202$26988
$269$358147
$358$476220
$476$634202
$634$844175
$844$1,124138
$1,124$1,496114
$1,496$1,99193

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$104
Median cash price$495
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.7×

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 $495.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 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 $423 across 39 hospitalsWA$423Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $436 across 31 hospitalsMN$436Illinois: median $603 across 70 hospitalsIL$603Wisconsin: median $694 across 62 hospitalsWI$694Michigan: median $473 across 43 hospitalsMI$473New York: median $336 across 59 hospitalsNY$336Massachusetts: median $498 across 27 hospitalsMA$498Oregon: median $585 across 22 hospitalsOR$585Nevada: 7 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 $481 across 22 hospitalsIA$481Indiana: median $556 across 58 hospitalsIN$556Ohio: median $583 across 78 hospitalsOH$583Pennsylvania: median $302 across 79 hospitalsPA$302New Jersey: median $154 across 49 hospitalsNJ$154Connecticut: median $494 across 10 hospitalsCT$494Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $874 across 102 hospitalsCA$874Utah: median $282 across 16 hospitalsUT$282Colorado: median $546 across 35 hospitalsCO$546Nebraska: median $386 across 16 hospitalsNE$386Missouri: median $488 across 37 hospitalsMO$488Kentucky: median $423 across 26 hospitalsKY$423West Virginia: median $754 across 15 hospitalsWV$754Virginia: median $371 across 41 hospitalsVA$371Maryland: median $658 across 28 hospitalsMD$658Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $207 across 14 hospitalsAZ$207New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $359 across 17 hospitalsKS$359Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $272 across 42 hospitalsTN$272North Carolina: median $485 across 47 hospitalsNC$485South Carolina: median $507 across 40 hospitalsSC$507Oklahoma: median $211 across 24 hospitalsOK$211Louisiana: median $239 across 27 hospitalsLA$239Mississippi: median $142 across 18 hospitalsMS$142Alabama: median $235 across 14 hospitalsAL$235Georgia: median $648 across 64 hospitalsGA$648Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $775 across 101 hospitalsTX$775Florida: median $464 across 89 hospitalsFL$464
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $495. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA102$874+76%$380 – $1,441
Texas TX101$775+57%$212 – $1,237
West Virginia WV15$754+52%$368 – $989
Wisconsin WI62$694+40%$452 – $1,158
Maryland MD28$658+33%$434 – $1,059
Georgia GA64$648+31%$279 – $742
Illinois IL70$603+22%$216 – $1,115
Oregon OR22$585+18%$452 – $660
Ohio OH78$583+18%$437 – $1,210
Indiana IN58$556+12%$280 – $1,213
Colorado CO35$546+10%$433 – $1,304
South Carolina SC40$507+2%$399 – $1,991
Massachusetts MA27$498+1%$280 – $815
Connecticut CT10$4940%$328 – $895
Missouri MO37$488−1%$310 – $1,064
North Carolina NC47$485−2%$217 – $751
Iowa IA22$481−3%$386 – $1,671
Michigan MI43$473−4%$140 – $994
Florida FL89$464−6%$226 – $861
Minnesota MN31$436−12%$199 – $753
Washington WA39$423−15%$284 – $526
Kentucky KY26$423−15%$189 – $961
Nebraska NE16$386−22%$376 – $650
Virginia VA41$371−25%$254 – $580
Kansas KS17$359−27%$126 – $829
New York NY59$336−32%$130 – $827
Pennsylvania PA79$302−39%$150 – $1,326
Utah UT16$282−43%$282 – $382
Tennessee TN42$272−45%$158 – $1,269
Louisiana LA27$239−52%$155 – $391
Alabama AL14$235−53%$94 – $500
Oklahoma OK24$211−57%$171 – $417
Arizona AZ14$207−58%$170 – $489
New Jersey NJ49$154−69%$121 – $692
Mississippi MS18$142−71%$94 – $220
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $495.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,410$495$211 – $1,006
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access105$480$198 – $1,220
Ownership
For-profit176$635$203 – $1,493
Government171$423$181 – $620
Non-profit1,181$488$216 – $1,025
System affiliation
Part of a system1,364$504$212 – $1,053
Independent174$396$199 – $821

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$858
Median cash price$495
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

1,145 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $517 and the average of the middle 60% is $550; most fall between $235 and $1,046.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,145 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
$158$282$517$874$1,533

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $1,533).

Of the 1,230 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,145 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 42 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,538 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,659 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,538
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code1,659

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 Radiation Treatment Delivery >=1 Mev 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Radiation treatment delivery, simple (CPT 77402) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77402-radiation-treatment-delivery-simple