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Procedure price report · Prophylactic vaccinations and inoculations

Shingles vaccine, live virus, shot

CPT 90736the billing code this page is about

Covers one dose of the live shingles (zoster) vaccine given under the skin; the charge for administering the injection is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $254 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 715 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $276. Most fall between $146 and $466 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
715
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 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 715 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
$99$172$254$420$601

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($99 vs $601).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $89: 21 hospitals$69$89 – $113: 30 hospitals$113 – $145: 54 hospitals$113$145 – $186: 56 hospitals$186 – $238: 132 hospitals$186$238 – $304: 98 hospitals$304 – $389: 92 hospitals$304$389 – $498: 66 hospitals$498 – $637: 66 hospitals$498$637 – $815: 30 hospitals$637median $254price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (645 of 715 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$8921
$89$11330
$113$14554
$145$18656
$186$238132
$238$30498
$304$38992
$389$49866
$498$63766
$637$81530

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $254.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $174 across 26 hospitalsWA$174Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $254 across 12 hospitalsMT$254North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $343 across 19 hospitalsMN$343Illinois: median $225 across 23 hospitalsIL$225Wisconsin: median $218 across 33 hospitalsWI$218Michigan: median $218 across 31 hospitalsMI$218New York: median $323 across 30 hospitalsNY$323Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $171 across 24 hospitalsOR$171Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $205 across 30 hospitalsIA$205Indiana: median $264 across 20 hospitalsIN$264Ohio: median $437 across 39 hospitalsOH$437Pennsylvania: median $161 across 14 hospitalsPA$161New Jersey: median $99 across 11 hospitalsNJ$99Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $388 across 51 hospitalsCA$388Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $510 across 15 hospitalsCO$510Nebraska: median $254 across 21 hospitalsNE$254Missouri: median $194 across 15 hospitalsMO$194Kentucky: median $160 across 10 hospitalsKY$160West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $285 across 24 hospitalsKS$285Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $227 across 24 hospitalsNC$227South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $227 across 12 hospitalsOK$227Louisiana: median $146 across 14 hospitalsLA$146Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $271 across 15 hospitalsGA$271Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $261 across 40 hospitalsTX$261Florida: median $523 across 16 hospitalsFL$523
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $254. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL16$523+106%$166 – $606
Colorado CO15$510+101%$329 – $510
Ohio OH39$437+72%$255 – $523
California CA51$388+53%$184 – $420
Minnesota MN19$343+35%$189 – $466
New York NY30$323+27%$110 – $531
Kansas KS24$285+12%$194 – $510
Georgia GA15$271+7%$144 – $672
Indiana IN20$264+4%$135 – $623
Texas TX40$261+3%$73 – $1,491
Nebraska NE21$2540%$234 – $312
Montana MT12$2540%$193 – $356
North Carolina NC24$227−11%$150 – $536
Oklahoma OK12$227−11%$227 – $227
Illinois IL23$225−11%$135 – $420
Michigan MI31$218−14%$196 – $283
Wisconsin WI33$218−14%$218 – $293
Iowa IA30$205−19%$205 – $319
Missouri MO15$194−24%$69 – $227
Washington WA26$174−32%$126 – $333
Oregon OR24$171−33%$14 – $302
Pennsylvania PA14$161−37%$23 – $446
Kentucky KY10$160−37%$94 – $579
Louisiana LA14$146−42%$74 – $275
New Jersey NJ11$99−61%$94 – $370
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $254.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care454$249$138 – $510
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access253$254$171 – $378
Ownership
For-profit54$437$195 – $1,417
Government170$255$154 – $403
Non-profit489$246$143 – $449
System affiliation
Part of a system550$247$139 – $466
Independent165$255$171 – $464

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$385
Median cash price$254
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

453 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $254 and the average of the middle 60% is $303; most fall between $163 and $510.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 453 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
$110$185$254$449$623

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($110 vs $623).

Of the 528 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 453 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

715 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 805 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted715
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code805

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 HZV VACCINE LIVE SUBQ.

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, “Shingles vaccine, live virus, shot (CPT 90736) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90736-shingles-vaccine-live-virus-shot