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IV fluids for hydration, each additional hour

CPT 96361the billing code this page is about

Billed once for each additional hour of intravenous hydration fluids beyond the first hour.

Hospitals typically charge $110 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,518 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $117. Most fall between $55 and $207 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,518
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 3,518 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
$37$62$110$185$294

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $294).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $35: 142 hospitals$26$35 – $46: 169 hospitals$46 – $60: 360 hospitals$46$60 – $79: 326 hospitals$79 – $104: 474 hospitals$79$104 – $137: 525 hospitals$137 – $180: 432 hospitals$137$180 – $237: 385 hospitals$237 – $312: 216 hospitals$237$312 – $411: 139 hospitals$312median $110price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,168 of 3,518 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$35142
$35$46169
$46$60360
$60$79326
$79$104474
$104$137525
$137$180432
$180$237385
$237$312216
$312$411139

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$48
Median cash price$110
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $110.

Alaska: median $157 across 19 hospitalsAK$157Maine: median $71 across 28 hospitalsME$71Vermont: median $150 across 14 hospitalsVT$150New Hampshire: median $119 across 25 hospitalsNH$119Washington: median $110 across 77 hospitalsWA$110Idaho: median $134 across 24 hospitalsID$134Montana: median $86 across 34 hospitalsMT$86North Dakota: median $91 across 31 hospitalsND$91Minnesota: median $105 across 108 hospitalsMN$105Illinois: median $148 across 134 hospitalsIL$148Wisconsin: median $107 across 109 hospitalsWI$107Michigan: median $92 across 99 hospitalsMI$92New York: median $100 across 116 hospitalsNY$100Massachusetts: median $160 across 53 hospitalsMA$160Oregon: median $112 across 56 hospitalsOR$112Nevada: median $98 across 24 hospitalsNV$98Wyoming: median $74 across 16 hospitalsWY$74South Dakota: median $131 across 45 hospitalsSD$131Iowa: median $88 across 96 hospitalsIA$88Indiana: median $104 across 97 hospitalsIN$104Ohio: median $126 across 146 hospitalsOH$126Pennsylvania: median $108 across 125 hospitalsPA$108New Jersey: median $63 across 56 hospitalsNJ$63Connecticut: median $133 across 23 hospitalsCT$133Rhode Island: median $166 across 10 hospitalsRI$166California: median $213 across 218 hospitalsCA$213Utah: median $290 across 43 hospitalsUT$290Colorado: median $101 across 73 hospitalsCO$101Nebraska: median $110 across 82 hospitalsNE$110Missouri: median $108 across 81 hospitalsMO$108Kentucky: median $77 across 69 hospitalsKY$77West Virginia: median $86 across 43 hospitalsWV$86Virginia: median $113 across 73 hospitalsVA$113Maryland: median $142 across 37 hospitalsMD$142Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $78 across 57 hospitalsAZ$78New Mexico: median $153 across 32 hospitalsNM$153Kansas: median $116 across 96 hospitalsKS$116Arkansas: median $46 across 40 hospitalsAR$46Tennessee: median $37 across 83 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $95 across 96 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $170 across 53 hospitalsSC$170Oklahoma: median $99 across 71 hospitalsOK$99Louisiana: median $61 across 53 hospitalsLA$61Mississippi: median $40 across 58 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $65 across 44 hospitalsAL$65Georgia: median $108 across 107 hospitalsGA$108Hawaii: median $186 across 21 hospitalsHI$186Texas: median $142 across 247 hospitalsTX$142Florida: median $163 across 169 hospitalsFL$163
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $110. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT43$290+164%$156 – $341
California CA218$213+94%$97 – $390
Hawaii HI21$186+69%$110 – $234
South Carolina SC53$170+55%$80 – $186
Rhode Island RI10$166+51%$52 – $244
Florida FL169$163+48%$67 – $303
Massachusetts MA53$160+45%$96 – $249
Alaska AK19$157+42%$92 – $226
New Mexico NM32$153+39%$73 – $245
Vermont VT14$150+36%$62 – $180
Illinois IL134$148+35%$81 – $243
Maryland MD37$142+29%$87 – $190
Texas TX247$142+29%$60 – $241
Idaho ID24$134+21%$70 – $161
Connecticut CT23$133+20%$51 – $151
South Dakota SD45$131+19%$52 – $197
Ohio OH146$126+15%$83 – $211
New Hampshire NH25$119+9%$68 – $200
Kansas KS96$116+6%$49 – $179
Virginia VA73$113+3%$81 – $162
Oregon OR56$112+2%$37 – $159
Nebraska NE82$1100%$67 – $200
Washington WA77$1100%$50 – $165
Missouri MO81$108−1%$61 – $194
Pennsylvania PA125$108−2%$60 – $221
Georgia GA107$108−2%$52 – $210
Wisconsin WI109$107−3%$72 – $140
Minnesota MN108$105−5%$73 – $142
Indiana IN97$104−5%$62 – $138
Colorado CO73$101−8%$56 – $187
New York NY116$100−9%$53 – $349
Oklahoma OK71$99−10%$53 – $152
Nevada NV24$98−11%$50 – $181
North Carolina NC96$95−13%$49 – $196
Michigan MI99$92−16%$59 – $145
North Dakota ND31$91−17%$67 – $102
Iowa IA96$88−20%$46 – $135
Montana MT34$86−21%$42 – $139
West Virginia WV43$86−22%$38 – $131
Arizona AZ57$78−29%$45 – $400
Kentucky KY69$77−30%$57 – $185
Wyoming WY16$74−33%$61 – $155
Maine ME28$71−35%$46 – $130
Alabama AL44$65−41%$41 – $104
New Jersey NJ56$63−42%$54 – $122
Louisiana LA53$61−45%$26 – $110
Arkansas AR40$46−58%$28 – $125
Mississippi MS58$40−64%$22 – $68
Tennessee TN83$37−66%$27 – $165
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 $110.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,432$116$56 – $221
Children’s68$156$86 – $265
Critical access1,008$98$51 – $166
Ownership
For-profit489$137$59 – $280
Government663$92$47 – $172
Non-profit2,356$111$57 – $204
System affiliation
Part of a system2,853$114$57 – $213
Independent665$97$49 – $164

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$185
Median cash price$110
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

2,544 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $114 and the average of the middle 60% is $121; most fall between $59 and $207.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,544 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
$39$68$114$189$297

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $297).

Of the 2,687 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,544 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,518 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 3,690 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,518
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
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 code3,690

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 Each Additional 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “IV fluids for hydration, each additional hour (CPT 96361) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96361-iv-fluids-for-hydration-each-additional-hour