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Radioactive drug treatment taken by mouth

CPT 79005the billing code this page is about

Treatment in which a radioactive medication, such as radioactive iodine, is swallowed as a capsule or liquid to treat a thyroid or other condition.

Hospitals typically charge $972 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,107 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,025. Most fall between $449 and $1,993 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,107
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,107 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
$285$520$972$1,659$2,739

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($285 vs $2,739).

How the prices are spread

$231 – $303: 149 hospitals$231$303 – $398: 121 hospitals$398 – $522: 154 hospitals$398$522 – $685: 194 hospitals$685 – $899: 251 hospitals$685$899 – $1,180: 271 hospitals$1,180 – $1,549: 286 hospitals$1,180$1,549 – $2,033: 166 hospitals$2,033 – $2,668: 178 hospitals$2,033$2,668 – $3,501: 128 hospitals$2,668median $972price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,898 of 2,107 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$231$303149
$303$398121
$398$522154
$522$685194
$685$899251
$899$1,180271
$1,180$1,549286
$1,549$2,033166
$2,033$2,668178
$2,668$3,501128

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$238
Median cash price$972
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.1×

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 $972.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $291 across 12 hospitalsME$291Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $761 across 43 hospitalsWA$761Idaho: median $1,019 across 13 hospitalsID$1,019Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $592 across 42 hospitalsMN$592Illinois: median $1,226 across 77 hospitalsIL$1,226Wisconsin: median $600 across 75 hospitalsWI$600Michigan: median $819 across 57 hospitalsMI$819New York: median $575 across 73 hospitalsNY$575Massachusetts: median $917 across 37 hospitalsMA$917Oregon: median $728 across 32 hospitalsOR$728Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $982 across 33 hospitalsIA$982Indiana: median $1,225 across 70 hospitalsIN$1,225Ohio: median $1,005 across 104 hospitalsOH$1,005Pennsylvania: median $711 across 96 hospitalsPA$711New Jersey: median $354 across 53 hospitalsNJ$354Connecticut: median $584 across 15 hospitalsCT$584Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,670 across 159 hospitalsCA$1,670Utah: median $2,327 across 33 hospitalsUT$2,327Colorado: median $2,052 across 44 hospitalsCO$2,052Nebraska: median $703 across 24 hospitalsNE$703Missouri: median $732 across 50 hospitalsMO$732Kentucky: median $900 across 36 hospitalsKY$900West Virginia: median $848 across 17 hospitalsWV$848Virginia: median $1,187 across 49 hospitalsVA$1,187Maryland: median $291 across 33 hospitalsMD$291Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $829 across 38 hospitalsAZ$829New Mexico: median $1,211 across 11 hospitalsNM$1,211Kansas: median $634 across 30 hospitalsKS$634Arkansas: median $278 across 15 hospitalsAR$278Tennessee: median $519 across 54 hospitalsTN$519North Carolina: median $1,042 across 73 hospitalsNC$1,042South Carolina: median $1,228 across 44 hospitalsSC$1,228Oklahoma: median $673 across 30 hospitalsOK$673Louisiana: median $389 across 36 hospitalsLA$389Mississippi: median $335 across 35 hospitalsMS$335Alabama: median $603 across 29 hospitalsAL$603Georgia: median $1,013 across 69 hospitalsGA$1,013Hawaii: median $573 across 11 hospitalsHI$573Texas: median $1,379 across 159 hospitalsTX$1,379Florida: median $1,659 across 134 hospitalsFL$1,659
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $972. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT33$2,327+139%$869 – $2,738
Colorado CO44$2,052+111%$1,229 – $4,597
California CA159$1,670+72%$687 – $2,862
Florida FL134$1,659+71%$1,170 – $3,737
Texas TX159$1,379+42%$865 – $2,373
South Carolina SC44$1,228+26%$853 – $2,039
Illinois IL77$1,226+26%$438 – $2,645
Indiana IN70$1,225+26%$504 – $2,047
New Mexico NM11$1,211+25%$1,042 – $1,320
Virginia VA49$1,187+22%$598 – $1,870
North Carolina NC73$1,042+7%$661 – $1,458
Idaho ID13$1,019+5%$918 – $1,551
Georgia GA69$1,013+4%$702 – $1,591
Ohio OH104$1,005+3%$735 – $1,667
Iowa IA33$982+1%$528 – $1,366
Massachusetts MA37$917−6%$538 – $1,452
Kentucky KY36$900−7%$553 – $5,023
West Virginia WV17$848−13%$597 – $1,452
Arizona AZ38$829−15%$478 – $3,010
Michigan MI57$819−16%$394 – $1,174
Washington WA43$761−22%$642 – $1,188
Missouri MO50$732−25%$572 – $1,505
Oregon OR32$728−25%$490 – $853
Pennsylvania PA96$711−27%$276 – $1,886
Nebraska NE24$703−28%$482 – $1,743
Oklahoma OK30$673−31%$378 – $1,143
Kansas KS30$634−35%$403 – $1,990
Alabama AL29$603−38%$308 – $1,216
Wisconsin WI75$600−38%$387 – $1,028
Minnesota MN42$592−39%$137 – $825
Connecticut CT15$584−40%$469 – $962
New York NY73$575−41%$265 – $1,452
Hawaii HI11$573−41%$499 – $669
Tennessee TN54$519−47%$452 – $903
Louisiana LA36$389−60%$182 – $655
New Jersey NJ53$354−64%$264 – $1,213
Mississippi MS35$335−66%$147 – $567
Maine ME12$291−70%$222 – $777
Maryland MD33$291−70%$151 – $430
Arkansas AR15$278−71%$203 – $763
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $972.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,847$974$448 – $2,014
Children’s40$1,294$582 – $2,235
Critical access210$900$400 – $1,769
Ownership
For-profit314$1,425$535 – $3,501
Government251$865$380 – $1,366
Non-profit1,532$944$448 – $1,793
System affiliation
Part of a system1,828$986$449 – $2,039
Independent279$875$430 – $1,847

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,779
Median cash price$972
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

1,518 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,005 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,049; most fall between $482 and $1,886.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,518 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
$315$584$1,005$1,602$2,531

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($315 vs $2,531).

Of the 1,652 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,518 gave a usable cash price; 70 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,107 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (53%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,296 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,107
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 — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded74
Hospitals that filed this code2,296

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 Other therapeutic endocrine procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rp Therapy Oral Administration|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, “Radioactive drug treatment taken by mouth (CPT 79005) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-79005-radioactive-drug-treatment-taken-by-mouth