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Procedure price report · Prophylactic vaccinations and inoculations

Tuberculosis (BCG) vaccine given into the skin

CPT 90585the billing code this page is about

Covers one dose of live BCG vaccine placed through the skin to help prevent tuberculosis; the administration service is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $288 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 153 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $260. Most fall between $146 and $388 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
153
States
33
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 153 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
$79$162$288$340$892

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $892).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $75: 5 hospitals$54$75 – $105: 9 hospitals$105 – $145: 8 hospitals$105$145 – $201: 31 hospitals$201 – $279: 15 hospitals$201$279 – $388: 47 hospitals$388 – $538: 10 hospitals$388$538 – $747: 5 hospitals$747 – $1,036: 3 hospitals$747$1,036 – $1,438: 10 hospitals$1,036median $288price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (143 of 153 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$755
$75$1059
$105$1458
$145$20131
$201$27915
$279$38847
$388$53810
$538$7475
$747$1,0363
$1,036$1,43810

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $288.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $310 across 11 hospitalsMI$310New York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $187 across 12 hospitalsIA$187Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $321 across 41 hospitalsCA$321Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,157 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,157South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $162 across 10 hospitalsOK$162Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $288. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC10$1,157+302%$246 – $1,664
California CA41$321+11%$298 – $321
Michigan MI11$310+8%$254 – $538
Iowa IA12$187−35%$187 – $187
Oklahoma OK10$162−44%$162 – $162
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $288.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care125$298$162 – $350
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access26$216$117 – $586
Ownership
For-profit7fewer than 20 hospitals
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit127$298$162 – $341
System affiliation
Part of a system135$298$162 – $403
Independent18fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$444
Median cash price$288
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

120 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $298 and the average of the middle 60% is $257; most fall between $162 and $341.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 120 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
$94$186$298$321$557

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $557).

Of the 122 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 120 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

153 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 156 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted153
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here2
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code156

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Prophylactic vaccinations and inoculations family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as BCG VACCINE PERCUT.

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, “Tuberculosis (BCG) vaccine given into the skin (CPT 90585) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90585-tuberculosis-bcg-vaccine-given-into-the-skin