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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Special radiation treatment procedure

CPT 77470the billing code this page is about

Covers the extra physician and technical work for an unusual radiation treatment such as whole-body or half-body irradiation or radiation combined with hyperthermia, billed once per occurrence.

Hospitals typically charge $1,847 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,714 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,884. Most fall between $744 and $3,270 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,714
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 1,714 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
$513$887$1,847$2,882$4,469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($513 vs $4,469).

How the prices are spread

$327 – $436: 44 hospitals$327$436 – $582: 107 hospitals$582 – $777: 126 hospitals$582$777 – $1,038: 132 hospitals$1,038 – $1,385: 142 hospitals$1,038$1,385 – $1,849: 223 hospitals$1,849 – $2,468: 286 hospitals$1,849$2,468 – $3,294: 241 hospitals$3,294 – $4,397: 151 hospitals$3,294$4,397 – $5,870: 95 hospitals$4,397median $1,847price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,547 of 1,714 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$327$43644
$436$582107
$582$777126
$777$1,038132
$1,038$1,385142
$1,385$1,849223
$1,849$2,468286
$2,468$3,294241
$3,294$4,397151
$4,397$5,87095

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$565
Median cash price$1,847
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.3×

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 $1,847.

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 $1,976 across 40 hospitalsWA$1,976Idaho: median $3,390 across 12 hospitalsID$3,390Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,200 across 33 hospitalsMN$1,200Illinois: median $1,985 across 71 hospitalsIL$1,985Wisconsin: median $901 across 66 hospitalsWI$901Michigan: median $2,223 across 56 hospitalsMI$2,223New York: median $1,405 across 65 hospitalsNY$1,405Massachusetts: median $1,919 across 30 hospitalsMA$1,919Oregon: median $1,722 across 24 hospitalsOR$1,722Nevada: 9 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 $1,719 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,719Indiana: median $2,332 across 63 hospitalsIN$2,332Ohio: median $2,563 across 84 hospitalsOH$2,563Pennsylvania: median $1,986 across 89 hospitalsPA$1,986New Jersey: median $772 across 49 hospitalsNJ$772Connecticut: median $2,244 across 14 hospitalsCT$2,244Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,270 across 109 hospitalsCA$3,270Utah: median $1,348 across 18 hospitalsUT$1,348Colorado: median $2,713 across 34 hospitalsCO$2,713Nebraska: median $1,855 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,855Missouri: median $2,168 across 37 hospitalsMO$2,168Kentucky: median $1,769 across 27 hospitalsKY$1,769West Virginia: median $1,195 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,195Virginia: median $1,850 across 45 hospitalsVA$1,850Maryland: median $202 across 27 hospitalsMD$202Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,621 across 25 hospitalsAZ$2,621New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,317 across 19 hospitalsKS$1,317Arkansas: median $618 across 12 hospitalsAR$618Tennessee: median $785 across 49 hospitalsTN$785North Carolina: median $1,804 across 56 hospitalsNC$1,804South Carolina: median $1,782 across 41 hospitalsSC$1,782Oklahoma: median $1,268 across 24 hospitalsOK$1,268Louisiana: median $669 across 29 hospitalsLA$669Mississippi: median $561 across 25 hospitalsMS$561Alabama: median $866 across 23 hospitalsAL$866Georgia: median $2,100 across 66 hospitalsGA$2,100Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,126 across 127 hospitalsTX$2,126Florida: median $2,328 across 95 hospitalsFL$2,328
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,847. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID12$3,390+84%$1,236 – $4,107
California CA109$3,270+77%$1,788 – $4,538
Colorado CO34$2,713+47%$1,767 – $16,973
Arizona AZ25$2,621+42%$1,255 – $2,621
Ohio OH84$2,563+39%$1,038 – $3,092
Indiana IN63$2,332+26%$889 – $3,087
Florida FL95$2,328+26%$1,153 – $3,312
Connecticut CT14$2,244+21%$946 – $3,922
Michigan MI56$2,223+20%$760 – $3,587
Missouri MO37$2,168+17%$1,246 – $2,720
Texas TX127$2,126+15%$909 – $3,733
Georgia GA66$2,100+14%$1,516 – $4,722
Pennsylvania PA89$1,986+8%$814 – $5,692
Illinois IL71$1,985+7%$916 – $3,417
Washington WA40$1,976+7%$1,344 – $2,565
Massachusetts MA30$1,919+4%$1,515 – $3,485
Nebraska NE15$1,8550%$436 – $2,628
Virginia VA45$1,8500%$1,123 – $2,597
North Carolina NC56$1,804−2%$809 – $2,334
South Carolina SC41$1,782−4%$1,730 – $2,853
Kentucky KY27$1,769−4%$616 – $6,807
Oregon OR24$1,722−7%$1,425 – $2,768
Iowa IA27$1,719−7%$351 – $2,357
New York NY65$1,405−24%$685 – $3,125
Utah UT18$1,348−27%$1,348 – $1,824
Kansas KS19$1,317−29%$502 – $3,748
Oklahoma OK24$1,268−31%$887 – $2,239
Minnesota MN33$1,200−35%$884 – $2,097
West Virginia WV15$1,195−35%$603 – $1,689
Wisconsin WI66$901−51%$510 – $2,335
Alabama AL23$866−53%$577 – $2,439
Tennessee TN49$785−57%$560 – $1,760
New Jersey NJ49$772−58%$641 – $3,180
Louisiana LA29$669−64%$490 – $1,382
Arkansas AR12$618−67%$190 – $1,788
Mississippi MS25$561−70%$250 – $928
Maryland MD27$202−89%$127 – $306
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not 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 $1,847.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,536$1,850$780 – $3,270
Children’s33$2,596$627 – $4,605
Critical access136$1,432$510 – $3,237
Ownership
For-profit214$1,832$809 – $4,107
Government197$1,590$685 – $2,646
Non-profit1,294$1,851$759 – $3,270
System affiliation
Part of a system1,510$1,905$769 – $3,291
Independent204$1,320$620 – $2,752

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,332
Median cash price$1,847
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

1,270 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,945 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,989; most fall between $821 and $3,270.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,270 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
$525$978$1,945$2,863$4,435

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($525 vs $4,435).

Of the 1,408 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,270 gave a usable cash price; 81 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

1,714 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,900 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,714
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here119
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 code1,900

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 Special Treatment Procedure|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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Special radiation treatment procedure (CPT 77470) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77470-special-radiation-treatment-procedure