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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Radioactive drug treatment injected into a joint

CPT 79440the billing code this page is about

Treatment in which a radioactive medication is injected into a joint space.

Hospitals typically charge $321 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 224 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $478. Most fall between $129 and $1,421 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
224
States
33
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – 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 224 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
$71$231$321$858$2,363

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 33× what the cheapest tenth charges ($71 vs $2,363).

How the prices are spread

$53 – $78: 12 hospitals$53$78 – $114: 14 hospitals$114 – $166: 12 hospitals$114$166 – $243: 11 hospitals$243 – $355: 56 hospitals$243$355 – $518: 13 hospitals$518 – $758: 27 hospitals$518$758 – $1,107: 16 hospitals$1,107 – $1,617: 12 hospitals$1,107$1,617 – $2,363: 32 hospitals$1,617median $321price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (205 of 224 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$53$7812
$78$11414
$114$16612
$166$24311
$243$35556
$355$51813
$518$75827
$758$1,10716
$1,107$1,61712
$1,617$2,36332

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$238
Median cash price$321
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.35×

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 $321.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $95 across 11 hospitalsIL$95Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $265 across 25 hospitalsNY$265Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $95 across 11 hospitalsIA$95Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $289 across 18 hospitalsOH$289Pennsylvania: median $51 across 14 hospitalsPA$51New Jersey: median $248 across 10 hospitalsNJ$248Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,363 across 25 hospitalsCA$2,363Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $65 across 10 hospitalsOK$65Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $549 across 18 hospitalsTX$549Florida: median $824 across 23 hospitalsFL$824
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $321. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$2,363+637%$1,425 – $2,363
Florida FL23$824+157%$186 – $824
Texas TX18$549+71%$549 – $1,669
Ohio OH18$289−10%$247 – $318
New York NY25$265−17%$265 – $512
New Jersey NJ10$248−23%$245 – $264
Iowa IA11$95−70%$95 – $95
Illinois IL11$95−70%$50 – $1,670
Oklahoma OK10$65−80%$65 – $65
Pennsylvania PA14$51−84%$48 – $263
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $321.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care201$356$183 – $1,456
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$673$65 – $1,565
Government26$265$183 – $549
Non-profit175$321$129 – $1,425
System affiliation
Part of a system201$341$128 – $1,421
Independent23$318$186 – $673

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$787
Median cash price$321
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

148 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $549 and the average of the middle 60% is $656; most fall between $128 and $1,670.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 148 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
$95$140$549$1,565$2,363

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $2,363).

Of the 179 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 148 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

224 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 261 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted224
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code261

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 5, 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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Nuclear Therapy, Intra-Articular.

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 injected into a joint (CPT 79440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-79440-radioactive-drug-treatment-injected-into-a-joint