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Procedure price report · Prophylactic vaccinations and inoculations

Japanese encephalitis vaccine, shot in muscle

CPT 90738the billing code this page is about

Covers one dose of the inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccine injected into a muscle; the fee for giving the shot is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $371 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 418 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $412. Most fall between $235 and $729 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
418
States
45
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 418 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
$195$251$371$648$1,381

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($195 vs $1,381).

How the prices are spread

$123 – $163: 9 hospitals$123$163 – $215: 21 hospitals$215 – $283: 76 hospitals$215$283 – $374: 85 hospitals$374 – $494: 65 hospitals$374$494 – $653: 38 hospitals$653 – $862: 42 hospitals$653$862 – $1,139: 9 hospitals$1,139 – $1,504: 23 hospitals$1,139$1,504 – $1,986: 10 hospitals$1,504median $371price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (378 of 418 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$123$1639
$163$21521
$215$28376
$283$37485
$374$49465
$494$65338
$653$86242
$862$1,1399
$1,139$1,50423
$1,504$1,98610

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $371.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $330 across 24 hospitalsMN$330Illinois: median $425 across 18 hospitalsIL$425Wisconsin: median $324 across 42 hospitalsWI$324Michigan: median $441 across 22 hospitalsMI$441New York: median $344 across 11 hospitalsNY$344Massachusetts: median $693 across 10 hospitalsMA$693Oregon: median $346 across 12 hospitalsOR$346Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $281 across 15 hospitalsIA$281Indiana: median $737 across 16 hospitalsIN$737Ohio: median $1,381 across 38 hospitalsOH$1,381Pennsylvania: median $1,959 across 13 hospitalsPA$1,959New Jersey: median $129 across 16 hospitalsNJ$129Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $233 across 40 hospitalsCA$233Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $355 across 17 hospitalsWV$355Virginia: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $361 across 24 hospitalsNC$361South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $289 across 10 hospitalsOK$289Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $371. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$1,959+428%$460 – $1,959
Ohio OH38$1,381+272%$400 – $2,069
Indiana IN16$737+98%$639 – $1,048
Massachusetts MA10$693+87%$353 – $1,045
Michigan MI22$441+19%$313 – $441
Illinois IL18$425+14%$288 – $425
North Carolina NC24$361−3%$188 – $2,501
West Virginia WV17$355−4%$355 – $532
Oregon OR12$346−7%$205 – $690
New York NY11$344−7%$226 – $344
Minnesota MN24$330−11%$223 – $387
Wisconsin WI42$324−13%$235 – $666
Oklahoma OK10$289−22%$289 – $289
Iowa IA15$281−24%$281 – $281
California CA40$233−37%$233 – $481
New Jersey NJ16$129−65%$123 – $183
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $371.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care300$355$233 – $694
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access100$396$251 – $666
Ownership
For-profit15fewer than 20 hospitals
Government52$355$229 – $499
Non-profit349$387$233 – $712
System affiliation
Part of a system368$371$233 – $737
Independent50$400$262 – $712

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$590
Median cash price$371
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

308 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $387 and the average of the middle 60% is $411; most fall between $235 and $787.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 308 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
$223$272$387$666$1,381

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($223 vs $1,381).

Of the 338 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 308 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

418 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 452 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted418
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code452

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 INACTIVATED JE VACC IM.

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, “Japanese encephalitis vaccine, shot in muscle (CPT 90738) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90738-japanese-encephalitis-vaccine-shot-in-muscle