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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Handling and oversight of a radiation source

CPT 77790the billing code this page is about

Covers the supervision, handling, and loading of the radioactive material used for a brachytherapy treatment, separate from the treatment delivery itself.

Hospitals typically charge $325 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,080 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $359. Most fall between $148 and $661 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,080
States
50
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 1,080 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
$78$171$325$610$1,142

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($78 vs $1,142).

How the prices are spread

$45 – $65: 31 hospitals$45$65 – $95: 44 hospitals$95 – $137: 76 hospitals$95$137 – $199: 112 hospitals$199 – $289: 167 hospitals$199$289 – $418: 156 hospitals$418 – $606: 171 hospitals$418$606 – $878: 119 hospitals$878 – $1,273: 56 hospitals$878$1,273 – $1,844: 45 hospitals$1,273median $325price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (977 of 1,080 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$45$6531
$65$9544
$95$13776
$137$199112
$199$289167
$289$418156
$418$606171
$606$878119
$878$1,27356
$1,273$1,84445

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $325.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $237 across 26 hospitalsWA$237Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $75 across 30 hospitalsMN$75Illinois: median $580 across 49 hospitalsIL$580Wisconsin: median $551 across 37 hospitalsWI$551Michigan: median $551 across 34 hospitalsMI$551New York: median $441 across 32 hospitalsNY$441Massachusetts: median $353 across 16 hospitalsMA$353Oregon: median $390 across 13 hospitalsOR$390Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $170 across 16 hospitalsIA$170Indiana: median $423 across 38 hospitalsIN$423Ohio: median $476 across 51 hospitalsOH$476Pennsylvania: median $296 across 50 hospitalsPA$296New Jersey: median $231 across 22 hospitalsNJ$231Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $408 across 80 hospitalsCA$408Utah: median $562 across 24 hospitalsUT$562Colorado: median $1,300 across 32 hospitalsCO$1,300Nebraska: median $270 across 12 hospitalsNE$270Missouri: median $440 across 26 hospitalsMO$440Kentucky: median $310 across 27 hospitalsKY$310West Virginia: median $160 across 12 hospitalsWV$160Virginia: median $252 across 30 hospitalsVA$252Maryland: median $190 across 26 hospitalsMD$190Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $234 across 18 hospitalsAZ$234New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,117 across 10 hospitalsKS$1,117Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $313 across 23 hospitalsTN$313North Carolina: median $252 across 22 hospitalsNC$252South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $143 across 16 hospitalsOK$143Louisiana: median $152 across 20 hospitalsLA$152Mississippi: median $126 across 18 hospitalsMS$126Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $332 across 31 hospitalsGA$332Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $257 across 87 hospitalsTX$257Florida: median $380 across 69 hospitalsFL$380
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $325. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO32$1,300+300%$843 – $4,040
Kansas KS10$1,117+244%$154 – $3,320
Illinois IL49$580+78%$106 – $753
Utah UT24$562+73%$562 – $661
Michigan MI34$551+69%$128 – $934
Wisconsin WI37$551+69%$171 – $1,786
Ohio OH51$476+47%$219 – $625
New York NY32$441+36%$124 – $1,196
Missouri MO26$440+35%$222 – $843
Indiana IN38$423+30%$139 – $611
California CA80$408+26%$259 – $719
Oregon OR13$390+20%$78 – $447
Florida FL69$380+17%$209 – $977
Massachusetts MA16$353+9%$204 – $734
Georgia GA31$332+2%$220 – $531
Tennessee TN23$313−4%$145 – $744
Kentucky KY27$310−5%$141 – $360
Pennsylvania PA50$296−9%$92 – $444
Nebraska NE12$270−17%$42 – $282
Texas TX87$257−21%$197 – $646
North Carolina NC22$252−23%$152 – $656
Virginia VA30$252−23%$116 – $400
Washington WA26$237−27%$207 – $311
Arizona AZ18$234−28%$128 – $941
New Jersey NJ22$231−29%$183 – $1,253
Maryland MD26$190−41%$118 – $282
Iowa IA16$170−48%$170 – $613
West Virginia WV12$160−51%$71 – $399
Louisiana LA20$152−53%$52 – $231
Oklahoma OK16$143−56%$129 – $393
Mississippi MS18$126−61%$28 – $203
Minnesota MN30$75−77%$46 – $552
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $325.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care984$325$143 – $668
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access82$480$171 – $581
Ownership
For-profit117$430$166 – $1,458
Government96$297$155 – $670
Non-profit864$325$141 – $645
System affiliation
Part of a system978$329$152 – $661
Independent102$271$125 – $729

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$627
Median cash price$325
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

846 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $326 and the average of the middle 60% is $364; most fall between $148 and $661.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 846 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
$78$170$326$587$1,057

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($78 vs $1,057).

Of the 929 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 846 gave a usable cash price; 42 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,080 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,214 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,080
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code1,214

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 Hc Ro Radiation Supervision And Handling.

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, “Handling and oversight of a radiation source (CPT 77790) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77790-handling-and-oversight-of-a-radiation-source