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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Radioactive drug treatment placed into a body cavity

CPT 79200the billing code this page is about

Treatment in which a radioactive medication is instilled into a body cavity, such as the bladder, chest, or abdomen.

Hospitals typically charge $750 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 416 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $772. Most fall between $265 and $1,746 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
416
States
43
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 416 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
$128$291$750$1,398$2,274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $2,274).

How the prices are spread

$87 – $123: 13 hospitals$87$123 – $174: 20 hospitals$174 – $247: 19 hospitals$174$247 – $349: 59 hospitals$349 – $495: 35 hospitals$349$495 – $700: 39 hospitals$700 – $992: 69 hospitals$700$992 – $1,405: 46 hospitals$1,405 – $1,990: 37 hospitals$1,405$1,990 – $2,818: 46 hospitals$1,990median $750price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (383 of 416 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$87$12313
$123$17420
$174$24719
$247$34959
$349$49535
$495$70039
$700$99269
$992$1,40546
$1,405$1,99037
$1,990$2,81846

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$238
Median cash price$750
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $750.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $756 across 13 hospitalsWA$756Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $419 across 16 hospitalsIL$419Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $321 across 10 hospitalsMI$321New York: median $265 across 24 hospitalsNY$265Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $126 across 15 hospitalsIA$126Indiana: median $566 across 19 hospitalsIN$566Ohio: median $1,398 across 28 hospitalsOH$1,398Pennsylvania: median $215 across 21 hospitalsPA$215New Jersey: median $248 across 12 hospitalsNJ$248Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,893 across 60 hospitalsCA$1,893Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $572 across 11 hospitalsNC$572South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $87 across 11 hospitalsOK$87Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $372 across 14 hospitalsGA$372Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,002 across 54 hospitalsTX$1,002Florida: median $824 across 24 hospitalsFL$824
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $750. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA60$1,893+153%$756 – $2,274
Ohio OH28$1,398+87%$1,193 – $1,755
Texas TX54$1,002+34%$750 – $1,669
Florida FL24$824+10%$225 – $7,821
Washington WA13$756+1%$623 – $875
North Carolina NC11$572−24%$345 – $686
Indiana IN19$566−25%$418 – $1,567
Illinois IL16$419−44%$61 – $1,202
Georgia GA14$372−50%$372 – $2,818
Michigan MI10$321−57%$231 – $635
New York NY24$265−65%$238 – $487
New Jersey NJ12$248−67%$248 – $270
Pennsylvania PA21$215−71%$51 – $337
Iowa IA15$126−83%$126 – $251
Oklahoma OK11$87−88%$87 – $457
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $750.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care383$750$265 – $1,755
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$555$129 – $1,394
Ownership
For-profit59$824$339 – $2,354
Government34$265$128 – $686
Non-profit322$750$265 – $1,746
System affiliation
Part of a system381$750$265 – $1,746
Independent35$392$225 – $1,661

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,374
Median cash price$750
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

284 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $846 and the average of the middle 60% is $978; most fall between $359 and $1,755.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 284 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
$126$476$846$1,622$2,274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $2,274).

Of the 330 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 284 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

416 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 479 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted416
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code479

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 Nuclear Therapy, Intracavitary.

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 placed into a body cavity (CPT 79200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-79200-radioactive-drug-treatment-placed-into-a-body-cavity