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IV fluids for hydration, first hour

CPT 96360the billing code this page is about

Fluids given through a vein to treat or prevent dehydration; this code covers the initial infusion of 31 minutes up to one hour.

Hospitals typically charge $317 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,517 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $332. Most fall between $175 and $551 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,517
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,517 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
$115$201$317$490$753

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($115 vs $753).

How the prices are spread

$80 – $103: 124 hospitals$80$103 – $132: 168 hospitals$132 – $170: 220 hospitals$132$170 – $219: 311 hospitals$219 – $282: 520 hospitals$219$282 – $364: 525 hospitals$364 – $468: 503 hospitals$364$468 – $602: 392 hospitals$602 – $775: 265 hospitals$602$775 – $998: 146 hospitals$775median $317price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,174 of 3,517 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$80$103124
$103$132168
$132$170220
$170$219311
$219$282520
$282$364525
$364$468503
$468$602392
$602$775265
$775$998146

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$217
Median cash price$317
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.46×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $317.

Alaska: median $534 across 19 hospitalsAK$534Maine: median $209 across 28 hospitalsME$209Vermont: median $243 across 14 hospitalsVT$243New Hampshire: median $270 across 22 hospitalsNH$270Washington: median $306 across 77 hospitalsWA$306Idaho: median $433 across 24 hospitalsID$433Montana: median $264 across 34 hospitalsMT$264North Dakota: median $353 across 32 hospitalsND$353Minnesota: median $266 across 108 hospitalsMN$266Illinois: median $355 across 133 hospitalsIL$355Wisconsin: median $285 across 109 hospitalsWI$285Michigan: median $246 across 98 hospitalsMI$246New York: median $348 across 116 hospitalsNY$348Massachusetts: median $490 across 52 hospitalsMA$490Oregon: median $272 across 56 hospitalsOR$272Nevada: median $324 across 24 hospitalsNV$324Wyoming: median $230 across 16 hospitalsWY$230South Dakota: median $412 across 45 hospitalsSD$412Iowa: median $267 across 96 hospitalsIA$267Indiana: median $413 across 97 hospitalsIN$413Ohio: median $418 across 147 hospitalsOH$418Pennsylvania: median $405 across 125 hospitalsPA$405New Jersey: median $253 across 56 hospitalsNJ$253Connecticut: median $492 across 23 hospitalsCT$492Rhode Island: median $325 across 10 hospitalsRI$325California: median $470 across 218 hospitalsCA$470Utah: median $469 across 42 hospitalsUT$469Colorado: median $262 across 72 hospitalsCO$262Nebraska: median $342 across 82 hospitalsNE$342Missouri: median $235 across 82 hospitalsMO$235Kentucky: median $282 across 69 hospitalsKY$282West Virginia: median $238 across 43 hospitalsWV$238Virginia: median $336 across 72 hospitalsVA$336Maryland: median $412 across 37 hospitalsMD$412Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $182 across 57 hospitalsAZ$182New Mexico: median $339 across 32 hospitalsNM$339Kansas: median $201 across 96 hospitalsKS$201Arkansas: median $125 across 41 hospitalsAR$125Tennessee: median $148 across 83 hospitalsTN$148North Carolina: median $305 across 96 hospitalsNC$305South Carolina: median $412 across 53 hospitalsSC$412Oklahoma: median $192 across 72 hospitalsOK$192Louisiana: median $185 across 55 hospitalsLA$185Mississippi: median $157 across 58 hospitalsMS$157Alabama: median $234 across 44 hospitalsAL$234Georgia: median $290 across 107 hospitalsGA$290Hawaii: median $439 across 21 hospitalsHI$439Texas: median $435 across 248 hospitalsTX$435Florida: median $512 across 169 hospitalsFL$512
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $317. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$534+69%$267 – $744
Florida FL169$512+62%$218 – $838
Connecticut CT23$492+55%$238 – $671
Massachusetts MA52$490+55%$301 – $585
California CA218$470+48%$272 – $901
Utah UT42$469+48%$299 – $551
Hawaii HI21$439+38%$395 – $503
Texas TX248$435+37%$206 – $587
Idaho ID24$433+37%$155 – $734
Ohio OH147$418+32%$226 – $722
Indiana IN97$413+30%$190 – $602
South Dakota SD45$412+30%$285 – $530
South Carolina SC53$412+30%$241 – $512
Maryland MD37$412+30%$232 – $528
Pennsylvania PA125$405+28%$243 – $641
Illinois IL133$355+12%$204 – $500
North Dakota ND32$353+11%$265 – $476
New York NY116$348+10%$189 – $768
Nebraska NE82$342+8%$235 – $432
New Mexico NM32$339+7%$218 – $477
Virginia VA72$336+6%$261 – $609
Rhode Island RI10$325+2%$173 – $527
Nevada NV24$324+2%$174 – $559
Washington WA77$306−3%$166 – $528
North Carolina NC96$305−4%$178 – $384
Georgia GA107$290−8%$183 – $597
Wisconsin WI109$285−10%$188 – $355
Kentucky KY69$282−11%$183 – $846
Oregon OR56$272−14%$96 – $523
New Hampshire NH22$270−15%$216 – $503
Iowa IA96$267−16%$137 – $404
Minnesota MN108$266−16%$196 – $332
Montana MT34$264−17%$136 – $403
Colorado CO72$262−17%$164 – $475
New Jersey NJ56$253−20%$225 – $535
Michigan MI98$246−22%$184 – $365
Vermont VT14$243−23%$165 – $590
West Virginia WV43$238−25%$125 – $447
Missouri MO82$235−26%$146 – $438
Alabama AL44$234−26%$170 – $406
Wyoming WY16$230−27%$117 – $293
Maine ME28$209−34%$117 – $328
Kansas KS96$201−37%$126 – $312
Oklahoma OK72$192−39%$134 – $313
Louisiana LA55$185−42%$82 – $322
Arizona AZ57$182−43%$118 – $644
Mississippi MS58$157−50%$88 – $242
Tennessee TN83$148−53%$80 – $318
Arkansas AR41$125−60%$120 – $255
Delaware DE7not 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 $317.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,435$336$188 – $609
Children’s68$479$201 – $712
Critical access1,004$274$143 – $420
Ownership
For-profit491$390$212 – $814
Government665$262$136 – $419
Non-profit2,351$322$183 – $543
System affiliation
Part of a system2,852$330$183 – $577
Independent665$262$140 – $454

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$540
Median cash price$317
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

2,546 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $330 and the average of the middle 60% is $346; most fall between $184 and $551.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,546 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
$120$217$330$498$725

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $725).

Of the 2,689 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,546 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,517 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (89%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,695 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,517
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,695

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 July 20, 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 Other therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as IV Infusion Hydration Initial 31 Min-1 Hour.

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, “IV fluids for hydration, first hour (CPT 96360) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96360-iv-fluids-for-hydration-first-hour