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IV drug infusion, first hour

CPT 96365the billing code this page is about

A medication other than chemotherapy given through a vein over time; this code covers the first hour of the infusion, with added codes for later hours.

Hospitals typically charge $363 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,527 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $373. Most fall between $200 and $605 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,527
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 3,527 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
$135$228$363$541$857

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($135 vs $857).

How the prices are spread

$102 – $130: 150 hospitals$102$130 – $166: 189 hospitals$166 – $211: 261 hospitals$166$211 – $268: 398 hospitals$268 – $341: 447 hospitals$268$341 – $434: 521 hospitals$434 – $552: 552 hospitals$434$552 – $703: 309 hospitals$703 – $894: 205 hospitals$703$894 – $1,138: 143 hospitals$894median $363price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,175 of 3,527 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$102$130150
$130$166189
$166$211261
$211$268398
$268$341447
$341$434521
$434$552552
$552$703309
$703$894205
$894$1,138143

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$217
Median cash price$363
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.67×

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 $363.

Alaska: median $568 across 19 hospitalsAK$568Maine: median $315 across 28 hospitalsME$315Vermont: median $239 across 14 hospitalsVT$239New Hampshire: median $298 across 25 hospitalsNH$298Washington: median $405 across 78 hospitalsWA$405Idaho: median $494 across 24 hospitalsID$494Montana: median $316 across 35 hospitalsMT$316North Dakota: median $403 across 31 hospitalsND$403Minnesota: median $311 across 109 hospitalsMN$311Illinois: median $414 across 134 hospitalsIL$414Wisconsin: median $314 across 109 hospitalsWI$314Michigan: median $306 across 98 hospitalsMI$306New York: median $383 across 116 hospitalsNY$383Massachusetts: median $562 across 53 hospitalsMA$562Oregon: median $358 across 56 hospitalsOR$358Nevada: median $390 across 24 hospitalsNV$390Wyoming: median $281 across 16 hospitalsWY$281South Dakota: median $444 across 45 hospitalsSD$444Iowa: median $307 across 96 hospitalsIA$307Indiana: median $467 across 97 hospitalsIN$467Ohio: median $424 across 145 hospitalsOH$424Pennsylvania: median $412 across 128 hospitalsPA$412New Jersey: median $272 across 57 hospitalsNJ$272Connecticut: median $568 across 23 hospitalsCT$568Rhode Island: median $325 across 10 hospitalsRI$325California: median $535 across 221 hospitalsCA$535Utah: median $444 across 43 hospitalsUT$444Colorado: median $346 across 73 hospitalsCO$346Nebraska: median $365 across 82 hospitalsNE$365Missouri: median $319 across 81 hospitalsMO$319Kentucky: median $314 across 69 hospitalsKY$314West Virginia: median $245 across 44 hospitalsWV$245Virginia: median $365 across 73 hospitalsVA$365Maryland: median $816 across 39 hospitalsMD$816Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $245 across 57 hospitalsAZ$245New Mexico: median $433 across 31 hospitalsNM$433Kansas: median $214 across 97 hospitalsKS$214Arkansas: median $153 across 40 hospitalsAR$153Tennessee: median $148 across 82 hospitalsTN$148North Carolina: median $330 across 96 hospitalsNC$330South Carolina: median $503 across 53 hospitalsSC$503Oklahoma: median $229 across 72 hospitalsOK$229Louisiana: median $255 across 51 hospitalsLA$255Mississippi: median $157 across 58 hospitalsMS$157Alabama: median $241 across 45 hospitalsAL$241Georgia: median $292 across 107 hospitalsGA$292Hawaii: median $442 across 21 hospitalsHI$442Texas: median $450 across 251 hospitalsTX$450Florida: median $635 across 164 hospitalsFL$635
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $363. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD39$816+125%$397 – $1,137
Florida FL164$635+75%$255 – $976
Alaska AK19$568+56%$341 – $746
Connecticut CT23$568+56%$343 – $738
Massachusetts MA53$562+55%$369 – $723
California CA221$535+47%$330 – $1,002
South Carolina SC53$503+39%$241 – $706
Idaho ID24$494+36%$293 – $734
Indiana IN97$467+29%$223 – $712
Texas TX251$450+24%$212 – $642
South Dakota SD45$444+22%$289 – $580
Utah UT43$444+22%$261 – $522
Hawaii HI21$442+22%$295 – $571
New Mexico NM31$433+19%$232 – $535
Ohio OH145$424+17%$242 – $722
Illinois IL134$414+14%$225 – $632
Pennsylvania PA128$412+13%$240 – $746
Washington WA78$405+12%$234 – $544
North Dakota ND31$403+11%$221 – $491
Nevada NV24$390+7%$231 – $714
New York NY116$383+5%$213 – $1,020
Nebraska NE82$365+1%$226 – $470
Virginia VA73$365+1%$261 – $503
Oregon OR56$358−1%$226 – $605
Colorado CO73$346−5%$228 – $521
North Carolina NC96$330−9%$181 – $458
Rhode Island RI10$325−11%$174 – $564
Missouri MO81$319−12%$185 – $547
Montana MT35$316−13%$190 – $456
Maine ME28$315−13%$209 – $479
Wisconsin WI109$314−14%$249 – $429
Kentucky KY69$314−14%$178 – $832
Minnesota MN109$311−14%$211 – $415
Iowa IA96$307−15%$177 – $442
Michigan MI98$306−16%$200 – $436
New Hampshire NH25$298−18%$175 – $589
Georgia GA107$292−20%$165 – $597
Wyoming WY16$281−23%$190 – $485
New Jersey NJ57$272−25%$233 – $529
Louisiana LA51$255−30%$111 – $362
Arizona AZ57$245−32%$143 – $907
West Virginia WV44$245−33%$172 – $493
Alabama AL45$241−34%$125 – $452
Vermont VT14$239−34%$110 – $388
Oklahoma OK72$229−37%$151 – $391
Kansas KS97$214−41%$148 – $357
Mississippi MS58$157−57%$105 – $297
Arkansas AR40$153−58%$135 – $267
Tennessee TN82$148−59%$93 – $379
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 $363.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,438$390$209 – $680
Children’s69$576$334 – $808
Critical access1,010$314$176 – $471
Ownership
For-profit493$444$219 – $902
Government666$309$157 – $474
Non-profit2,358$371$209 – $598
System affiliation
Part of a system2,860$379$209 – $640
Independent667$318$172 – $519

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$615
Median cash price$363
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

2,552 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $379 and the average of the middle 60% is $385; most fall between $207 and $597.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,552 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
$141$239$379$541$797

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($141 vs $797).

Of the 2,695 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,552 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 107 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,527 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 3,702 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,527
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
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 — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code3,702

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 Therapy/Prophylaxis /Dx 1st to 1 Hr.

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 drug infusion, first hour (CPT 96365) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96365-iv-drug-infusion-first-hour