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Procedure price report · Prophylactic vaccinations and inoculations

Chickenpox shot

CPT 90716the billing code this page is about

One injection of live varicella (chickenpox) vaccine given under the skin; covers the vaccine product per dose.

Hospitals typically charge $241 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,800 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $259. Most fall between $126 and $490 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,800
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,800 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
$83$143$241$427$696

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $696).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $72: 51 hospitals$54$72 – $96: 105 hospitals$96 – $129: 128 hospitals$96$129 – $172: 244 hospitals$172 – $230: 248 hospitals$172$230 – $307: 226 hospitals$307 – $410: 238 hospitals$307$410 – $547: 175 hospitals$547 – $731: 139 hospitals$547$731 – $976: 67 hospitals$731median $241price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,621 of 1,800 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$7251
$72$96105
$96$129128
$129$172244
$172$230248
$230$307226
$307$410238
$410$547175
$547$731139
$731$97667

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $241.

Alaska: median $250 across 14 hospitalsAK$250Maine: median $134 across 20 hospitalsME$134Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $186 across 17 hospitalsNH$186Washington: median $174 across 41 hospitalsWA$174Idaho: median $244 across 13 hospitalsID$244Montana: median $236 across 23 hospitalsMT$236North Dakota: median $178 across 15 hospitalsND$178Minnesota: median $230 across 63 hospitalsMN$230Illinois: median $276 across 65 hospitalsIL$276Wisconsin: median $168 across 71 hospitalsWI$168Michigan: median $187 across 54 hospitalsMI$187New York: median $206 across 63 hospitalsNY$206Massachusetts: median $261 across 31 hospitalsMA$261Oregon: median $203 across 33 hospitalsOR$203Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $198 across 16 hospitalsSD$198Iowa: median $166 across 70 hospitalsIA$166Indiana: median $406 across 63 hospitalsIN$406Ohio: median $317 across 81 hospitalsOH$317Pennsylvania: median $175 across 75 hospitalsPA$175New Jersey: median $163 across 27 hospitalsNJ$163Connecticut: median $400 across 11 hospitalsCT$400Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $220 across 121 hospitalsCA$220Utah: median $459 across 27 hospitalsUT$459Colorado: median $269 across 46 hospitalsCO$269Nebraska: median $144 across 55 hospitalsNE$144Missouri: median $166 across 32 hospitalsMO$166Kentucky: median $259 across 25 hospitalsKY$259West Virginia: median $261 across 31 hospitalsWV$261Virginia: median $239 across 27 hospitalsVA$239Maryland: median $427 across 23 hospitalsMD$427Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $243 across 10 hospitalsAZ$243New Mexico: median $326 across 16 hospitalsNM$326Kansas: median $221 across 42 hospitalsKS$221Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $163 across 26 hospitalsTN$163North Carolina: median $304 across 57 hospitalsNC$304South Carolina: median $267 across 34 hospitalsSC$267Oklahoma: median $175 across 20 hospitalsOK$175Louisiana: median $217 across 28 hospitalsLA$217Mississippi: median $137 across 15 hospitalsMS$137Alabama: median $170 across 16 hospitalsAL$170Georgia: median $360 across 28 hospitalsGA$360Hawaii: median $253 across 15 hospitalsHI$253Texas: median $392 across 118 hospitalsTX$392Florida: median $285 across 85 hospitalsFL$285
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $241. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT27$459+91%$269 – $567
Maryland MD23$427+77%$262 – $594
Indiana IN63$406+68%$182 – $522
Connecticut CT11$400+66%$178 – $493
Texas TX118$392+62%$126 – $851
Georgia GA28$360+49%$223 – $717
New Mexico NM16$326+35%$248 – $326
Ohio OH81$317+31%$125 – $480
North Carolina NC57$304+26%$126 – $1,363
Florida FL85$285+18%$105 – $589
Illinois IL65$276+15%$135 – $399
Colorado CO46$269+12%$198 – $396
South Carolina SC34$267+11%$204 – $452
Massachusetts MA31$261+8%$204 – $435
West Virginia WV31$261+8%$174 – $451
Kentucky KY25$259+8%$53 – $699
Hawaii HI15$253+5%$151 – $355
Alaska AK14$250+4%$161 – $379
Idaho ID13$244+1%$112 – $244
Arizona AZ10$243+1%$142 – $521
Virginia VA27$239−1%$68 – $778
Montana MT23$236−2%$146 – $315
Minnesota MN63$230−5%$142 – $366
Kansas KS42$221−9%$122 – $328
California CA121$220−9%$109 – $601
Louisiana LA28$217−10%$142 – $436
New York NY63$206−15%$110 – $416
Oregon OR33$203−16%$106 – $527
South Dakota SD16$198−18%$198 – $445
Michigan MI54$187−22%$137 – $241
New Hampshire NH17$186−23%$112 – $770
North Dakota ND15$178−26%$118 – $381
Oklahoma OK20$175−27%$168 – $319
Pennsylvania PA75$175−27%$83 – $456
Washington WA41$174−28%$109 – $460
Alabama AL16$170−29%$95 – $588
Wisconsin WI71$168−30%$143 – $310
Missouri MO32$166−31%$112 – $509
Iowa IA70$166−31%$149 – $333
Tennessee TN26$163−33%$89 – $216
New Jersey NJ27$163−33%$71 – $454
Nebraska NE55$144−40%$20 – $297
Mississippi MS15$137−43%$69 – $176
Maine ME20$134−45%$69 – $375
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $241.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,230$262$134 – $512
Children’s46$268$82 – $606
Critical access516$204$118 – $385
Ownership
For-profit174$410$135 – $998
Government333$183$105 – $350
Non-profit1,285$242$136 – $460
System affiliation
Part of a system1,477$251$132 – $496
Independent323$194$108 – $366

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$388
Median cash price$241
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

1,290 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $257 and the average of the middle 60% is $276; most fall between $134 and $496.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,290 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
$87$150$257$427$666

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $666).

Of the 1,465 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,290 gave a usable cash price; 56 carried a plausibility flag, 14 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,800 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,013 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,800
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here79
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded17
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded117
Hospitals that filed this code2,013

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 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 Var Vaccine Live for Subcutaneous Use.

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, “Chickenpox shot (CPT 90716) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90716-chickenpox-shot