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Daily kidney dialysis management, age 20 and older

CPT 90970the billing code this page is about

Outpatient management of end-stage kidney disease for a patient aged 20 or older, billed for each day in a month when a full month of care was not provided.

Hospitals typically charge $22 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 239 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $26. Most fall between $10 and $54 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
239
States
37
Filings dated
Jun 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 239 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
$7$12$22$54$430

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 59× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $430).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $10: 42 hospitals$6$10 – $17: 41 hospitals$17 – $28: 53 hospitals$17$28 – $47: 23 hospitals$47 – $77: 26 hospitals$47$77 – $127: 0 hospitals$127 – $211: 2 hospitals$127$211 – $349: 1 hospitals$349 – $577: 23 hospitals$349$577 – $954: 6 hospitals$577median $22price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (217 of 239 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$1042
$10$1741
$17$2853
$28$4723
$47$7726
$77$1270
$127$2112
$211$3491
$349$57723
$577$9546

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $22.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $17 across 15 hospitalsIL$17Wisconsin: median $23 across 19 hospitalsWI$23Michigan: median $11 across 27 hospitalsMI$11New York: median $21 across 14 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $18 across 17 hospitalsIA$18Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $15 across 10 hospitalsOH$15Pennsylvania: median $6 across 13 hospitalsPA$6New 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 $54 across 25 hospitalsCA$54Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $16 across 11 hospitalsOK$16Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $430 across 22 hospitalsTX$430Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $22. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX22$430+1892%$409 – $1,190
California CA25$54+149%$54 – $171
Wisconsin WI19$23+5%$23 – $41
New York NY14$21−2%$5 – $65
Iowa IA17$18−15%$18 – $29
Illinois IL15$17−24%$7 – $127
Oklahoma OK11$16−25%$16 – $16
Ohio OH10$15−29%$11 – $43
Michigan MI27$11−48%$10 – $23
Pennsylvania PA13$6−70%$6 – $12
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $22.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care199$19$10 – $54
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access29$23$10 – $41
Ownership
For-profit20$19$7 – $441
Government21$18$10 – $24
Non-profit198$23$10 – $54
System affiliation
Part of a system200$23$10 – $54
Independent39$19$12 – $30

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$32
Median cash price$22
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

159 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $23 and the average of the middle 60% is $63; most fall between $15 and $409.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 159 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
$9$16$23$54$472

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 52× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $472).

Of the 179 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 159 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

239 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 268 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted239
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code268

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esrd Related Svc <Full Month 20/>Yr Old.

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, “Daily kidney dialysis management, age 20 and older (CPT 90970) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90970-daily-kidney-dialysis-management-age-20-and-older