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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Radioactive drug treatment given by vein

CPT 79101the billing code this page is about

Treatment in which a radioactive medication is injected into a vein so that it travels through the bloodstream to the target tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $777 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,640 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $799. Most fall between $366 and $1,466 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,640
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 1,640 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
$254$432$777$1,233$2,279

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($254 vs $2,279).

How the prices are spread

$199 – $261: 96 hospitals$199$261 – $343: 122 hospitals$343 – $449: 127 hospitals$343$449 – $590: 167 hospitals$590 – $774: 226 hospitals$590$774 – $1,015: 279 hospitals$1,015 – $1,331: 183 hospitals$1,015$1,331 – $1,747: 112 hospitals$1,747 – $2,292: 89 hospitals$1,747$2,292 – $3,007: 80 hospitals$2,292median $777price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,481 of 1,640 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$199$26196
$261$343122
$343$449127
$449$590167
$590$774226
$774$1,015279
$1,015$1,331183
$1,331$1,747112
$1,747$2,29289
$2,292$3,00780

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$238
Median cash price$777
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 $777.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $230 across 10 hospitalsME$230Vermont: 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 $768 across 42 hospitalsWA$768Idaho: median $918 across 11 hospitalsID$918Montana: 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 $595 across 30 hospitalsMN$595Illinois: median $995 across 61 hospitalsIL$995Wisconsin: median $621 across 70 hospitalsWI$621Michigan: median $543 across 45 hospitalsMI$543New York: median $450 across 58 hospitalsNY$450Massachusetts: median $896 across 27 hospitalsMA$896Oregon: median $480 across 27 hospitalsOR$480Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $634 across 22 hospitalsIA$634Indiana: median $900 across 54 hospitalsIN$900Ohio: median $1,234 across 90 hospitalsOH$1,234Pennsylvania: median $578 across 83 hospitalsPA$578New Jersey: median $270 across 46 hospitalsNJ$270Connecticut: median $562 across 12 hospitalsCT$562Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $967 across 127 hospitalsCA$967Utah: median $861 across 28 hospitalsUT$861Colorado: median $1,204 across 41 hospitalsCO$1,204Nebraska: median $569 across 20 hospitalsNE$569Missouri: median $697 across 39 hospitalsMO$697Kentucky: median $784 across 28 hospitalsKY$784West Virginia: median $953 across 12 hospitalsWV$953Virginia: median $615 across 34 hospitalsVA$615Maryland: median $304 across 24 hospitalsMD$304Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $666 across 30 hospitalsAZ$666New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $614 across 14 hospitalsKS$614Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $452 across 43 hospitalsTN$452North Carolina: median $806 across 52 hospitalsNC$806South Carolina: median $1,034 across 35 hospitalsSC$1,034Oklahoma: median $509 across 22 hospitalsOK$509Louisiana: median $333 across 24 hospitalsLA$333Mississippi: median $327 across 26 hospitalsMS$327Alabama: median $504 across 17 hospitalsAL$504Georgia: median $885 across 59 hospitalsGA$885Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $985 across 112 hospitalsTX$985Florida: median $1,724 across 96 hospitalsFL$1,724
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $777. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL96$1,724+122%$760 – $2,597
Ohio OH90$1,234+59%$841 – $1,585
Colorado CO41$1,204+55%$855 – $2,715
South Carolina SC35$1,034+33%$857 – $2,148
Illinois IL61$995+28%$430 – $1,308
Texas TX112$985+27%$354 – $1,985
California CA127$967+25%$428 – $1,782
West Virginia WV12$953+23%$597 – $2,181
Idaho ID11$918+18%$861 – $1,091
Indiana IN54$900+16%$532 – $1,327
Massachusetts MA27$896+15%$664 – $1,157
Georgia GA59$885+14%$473 – $1,187
Utah UT28$861+11%$793 – $1,013
North Carolina NC52$806+4%$449 – $1,196
Kentucky KY28$784+1%$363 – $8,958
Washington WA42$768−1%$625 – $1,083
Missouri MO39$697−10%$414 – $1,102
Arizona AZ30$666−14%$461 – $2,440
Iowa IA22$634−18%$110 – $1,061
Wisconsin WI70$621−20%$387 – $761
Virginia VA34$615−21%$412 – $681
Kansas KS14$614−21%$283 – $1,825
Minnesota MN30$595−23%$313 – $928
Pennsylvania PA83$578−26%$263 – $1,611
Nebraska NE20$569−27%$273 – $1,027
Connecticut CT12$562−28%$484 – $831
Michigan MI45$543−30%$368 – $1,284
Oklahoma OK22$509−34%$211 – $777
Alabama AL17$504−35%$322 – $1,042
Oregon OR27$480−38%$391 – $625
Tennessee TN43$452−42%$292 – $761
New York NY58$450−42%$265 – $2,066
Louisiana LA24$333−57%$172 – $503
Mississippi MS26$327−58%$190 – $753
Maryland MD24$304−61%$205 – $536
New Jersey NJ46$270−65%$241 – $675
Maine ME10$230−70%$180 – $721
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not 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 NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not 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 $777.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,447$784$364 – $1,466
Children’s24$1,355$651 – $2,279
Critical access160$635$354 – $1,295
Ownership
For-profit193$959$398 – $2,690
Government178$716$297 – $1,056
Non-profit1,260$763$376 – $1,355
System affiliation
Part of a system1,454$791$374 – $1,477
Independent186$689$331 – $1,246

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,356
Median cash price$777
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

1,215 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $806 and the average of the middle 60% is $822; most fall between $409 and $1,359.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,215 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
$279$483$806$1,204$2,125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($279 vs $2,125).

Of the 1,315 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,215 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 50 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,640 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,781 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,640
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
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 — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,781

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 PR Rp Therapy Intravenous Administration.

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, “Radioactive drug treatment given by vein (CPT 79101) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-79101-radioactive-drug-treatment-given-by-vein