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Procedure price report · Prophylactic vaccinations and inoculations

Giving a COVID-19 vaccine, single dose

CPT 90480the billing code this page is about

Payment for administering one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, by any route; covers the act of giving the shot, not the vaccine product.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,905 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $47. Most fall between $24 and $76 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,905
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 1,905 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
$16$28$47$70$104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $104).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $15: 87 hospitals$12$15 – $19: 110 hospitals$19 – $24: 117 hospitals$19$24 – $31: 129 hospitals$31 – $39: 175 hospitals$31$39 – $49: 362 hospitals$49 – $63: 247 hospitals$49$63 – $80: 248 hospitals$80 – $102: 139 hospitals$80$102 – $129: 104 hospitals$102median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,718 of 1,905 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1587
$15$19110
$19$24117
$24$31129
$31$39175
$39$49362
$49$63247
$63$80248
$80$102139
$102$129104

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$42
Median cash price$47
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $47.

Alaska: median $55 across 13 hospitalsAK$55Maine: median $37 across 22 hospitalsME$37Vermont: median $39 across 12 hospitalsVT$39New Hampshire: median $29 across 16 hospitalsNH$29Washington: median $43 across 46 hospitalsWA$43Idaho: median $46 across 15 hospitalsID$46Montana: median $35 across 21 hospitalsMT$35North Dakota: median $45 across 19 hospitalsND$45Minnesota: median $40 across 80 hospitalsMN$40Illinois: median $50 across 66 hospitalsIL$50Wisconsin: median $48 across 85 hospitalsWI$48Michigan: median $29 across 67 hospitalsMI$29New York: median $51 across 89 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: median $62 across 34 hospitalsMA$62Oregon: median $48 across 41 hospitalsOR$48Nevada: median $54 across 11 hospitalsNV$54Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $73 across 31 hospitalsSD$73Iowa: median $33 across 69 hospitalsIA$33Indiana: median $33 across 57 hospitalsIN$33Ohio: median $60 across 58 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $48 across 85 hospitalsPA$48New Jersey: median $46 across 42 hospitalsNJ$46Connecticut: median $70 across 12 hospitalsCT$70Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $66 across 158 hospitalsCA$66Utah: median $11 across 24 hospitalsUT$11Colorado: median $45 across 37 hospitalsCO$45Nebraska: median $49 across 44 hospitalsNE$49Missouri: median $42 across 55 hospitalsMO$42Kentucky: median $46 across 38 hospitalsKY$46West Virginia: median $50 across 22 hospitalsWV$50Virginia: median $26 across 42 hospitalsVA$26Maryland: median $77 across 22 hospitalsMD$77Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $48 across 10 hospitalsAZ$48New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $26 across 41 hospitalsKS$26Arkansas: median $42 across 17 hospitalsAR$42Tennessee: median $28 across 33 hospitalsTN$28North Carolina: median $45 across 36 hospitalsNC$45South Carolina: median $55 across 32 hospitalsSC$55Oklahoma: median $56 across 26 hospitalsOK$56Louisiana: median $33 across 25 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $40 across 24 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $40 across 17 hospitalsAL$40Georgia: median $47 across 47 hospitalsGA$47Hawaii: median $77 across 15 hospitalsHI$77Texas: median $48 across 95 hospitalsTX$48Florida: median $85 across 30 hospitalsFL$85
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL30$85+81%$40 – $129
Hawaii HI15$77+65%$46 – $97
Maryland MD22$77+64%$40 – $161
South Dakota SD31$73+56%$61 – $80
Connecticut CT12$70+49%$51 – $85
California CA158$66+42%$39 – $101
Massachusetts MA34$62+33%$19 – $112
Ohio OH58$60+28%$14 – $101
Oklahoma OK26$56+20%$43 – $72
South Carolina SC32$55+18%$27 – $70
Alaska AK13$55+17%$32 – $84
Nevada NV11$54+16%$42 – $81
New York NY89$51+9%$31 – $120
Illinois IL66$50+7%$31 – $81
West Virginia WV22$50+7%$40 – $61
Nebraska NE44$49+5%$32 – $65
Wisconsin WI85$48+3%$37 – $91
Pennsylvania PA85$48+3%$24 – $85
Oregon OR41$48+3%$26 – $63
Texas TX95$48+3%$34 – $76
Arizona AZ10$48+3%$39 – $53
Georgia GA47$47+1%$33 – $64
Kentucky KY38$46−1%$17 – $78
Idaho ID15$46−2%$16 – $110
New Jersey NJ42$46−2%$13 – $55
Colorado CO37$45−4%$29 – $70
North Carolina NC36$45−4%$34 – $60
North Dakota ND19$45−4%$19 – $71
Washington WA46$43−9%$32 – $52
Arkansas AR17$42−11%$18 – $43
Missouri MO55$42−11%$30 – $51
Minnesota MN80$40−14%$15 – $57
Alabama AL17$40−14%$28 – $69
Mississippi MS24$40−14%$28 – $74
Vermont VT12$39−17%$29 – $70
Maine ME22$37−21%$14 – $50
Montana MT21$35−25%$26 – $46
Indiana IN57$33−29%$9 – $80
Louisiana LA25$33−30%$25 – $70
Iowa IA69$33−30%$13 – $70
New Hampshire NH16$29−38%$8 – $80
Michigan MI67$29−38%$15 – $61
Tennessee TN33$28−41%$18 – $34
Virginia VA42$26−44%$20 – $59
Kansas KS41$26−45%$16 – $42
Utah UT24$11−76%$11 – $16
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not 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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,311$48$24 – $78
Children’s45$50$23 – $93
Critical access546$43$23 – $71
Ownership
For-profit112$48$32 – $96
Government318$42$25 – $66
Non-profit1,472$47$23 – $78
System affiliation
Part of a system1,597$47$24 – $74
Independent308$45$26 – $80

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$80
Median cash price$47
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,338 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $47 and the average of the middle 60% is $48; most fall between $24 and $77.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,338 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
$15$27$47$70$105

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $105).

Of the 1,409 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,338 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,905 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,002 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,905
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code2,002

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Prophylactic vaccinations and inoculations family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Imm Admn Sarscov2 Vaccine 1st/Only 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, “Giving a COVID-19 vaccine, single dose (CPT 90480) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90480-giving-a-covid-19-vaccine-single-dose