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IV infusion of medication, each additional hour

CPT 96366the billing code this page is about

Billed for each additional hour of continuous intravenous drug or fluid infusion beyond the first hour; the first hour is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $123 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,516 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $129. Most fall between $60 and $224 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,516
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 3,516 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
$43$70$123$200$318

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($43 vs $318).

How the prices are spread

$32 – $42: 164 hospitals$32$42 – $55: 260 hospitals$55 – $71: 287 hospitals$55$71 – $92: 338 hospitals$92 – $120: 496 hospitals$92$120 – $155: 462 hospitals$155 – $202: 468 hospitals$155$202 – $262: 347 hospitals$262 – $340: 219 hospitals$262$340 – $441: 127 hospitals$340median $123price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,168 of 3,516 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$32$42164
$42$55260
$55$71287
$71$92338
$92$120496
$120$155462
$155$202468
$202$262347
$262$340219
$340$441127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$48
Median cash price$123
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $123.

Alaska: median $164 across 19 hospitalsAK$164Maine: median $82 across 27 hospitalsME$82Vermont: median $143 across 14 hospitalsVT$143New Hampshire: median $109 across 25 hospitalsNH$109Washington: median $119 across 77 hospitalsWA$119Idaho: median $138 across 24 hospitalsID$138Montana: median $82 across 33 hospitalsMT$82North Dakota: median $90 across 31 hospitalsND$90Minnesota: median $121 across 108 hospitalsMN$121Illinois: median $154 across 134 hospitalsIL$154Wisconsin: median $120 across 108 hospitalsWI$120Michigan: median $107 across 98 hospitalsMI$107New York: median $107 across 116 hospitalsNY$107Massachusetts: median $195 across 53 hospitalsMA$195Oregon: median $142 across 56 hospitalsOR$142Nevada: median $131 across 24 hospitalsNV$131Wyoming: median $111 across 16 hospitalsWY$111South Dakota: median $172 across 45 hospitalsSD$172Iowa: median $97 across 94 hospitalsIA$97Indiana: median $115 across 96 hospitalsIN$115Ohio: median $140 across 147 hospitalsOH$140Pennsylvania: median $146 across 118 hospitalsPA$146New Jersey: median $84 across 57 hospitalsNJ$84Connecticut: median $133 across 23 hospitalsCT$133Rhode Island: median $166 across 10 hospitalsRI$166California: median $192 across 221 hospitalsCA$192Utah: median $270 across 43 hospitalsUT$270Colorado: median $133 across 73 hospitalsCO$133Nebraska: median $119 across 82 hospitalsNE$119Missouri: median $132 across 81 hospitalsMO$132Kentucky: median $107 across 69 hospitalsKY$107West Virginia: median $92 across 43 hospitalsWV$92Virginia: median $142 across 73 hospitalsVA$142Maryland: median $206 across 39 hospitalsMD$206Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $93 across 57 hospitalsAZ$93New Mexico: median $113 across 31 hospitalsNM$113Kansas: median $121 across 97 hospitalsKS$121Arkansas: median $63 across 40 hospitalsAR$63Tennessee: median $40 across 83 hospitalsTN$40North Carolina: median $92 across 96 hospitalsNC$92South Carolina: median $177 across 53 hospitalsSC$177Oklahoma: median $94 across 72 hospitalsOK$94Louisiana: median $63 across 54 hospitalsLA$63Mississippi: median $48 across 58 hospitalsMS$48Alabama: median $59 across 46 hospitalsAL$59Georgia: median $114 across 106 hospitalsGA$114Hawaii: median $207 across 21 hospitalsHI$207Texas: median $158 across 253 hospitalsTX$158Florida: median $196 across 165 hospitalsFL$196
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $123. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT43$270+121%$141 – $300
Hawaii HI21$207+69%$110 – $256
Maryland MD39$206+68%$116 – $264
Florida FL165$196+60%$97 – $332
Massachusetts MA53$195+59%$101 – $254
California CA221$192+57%$110 – $440
South Carolina SC53$177+44%$88 – $219
South Dakota SD45$172+40%$113 – $200
Rhode Island RI10$166+35%$52 – $225
Alaska AK19$164+34%$124 – $257
Texas TX253$158+29%$60 – $271
Illinois IL134$154+25%$79 – $263
Pennsylvania PA118$146+20%$68 – $265
Vermont VT14$143+17%$57 – $185
Virginia VA73$142+16%$83 – $209
Oregon OR56$142+16%$70 – $188
Ohio OH147$140+14%$82 – $207
Idaho ID24$138+13%$74 – $161
Colorado CO73$133+8%$78 – $232
Connecticut CT23$133+8%$66 – $162
Missouri MO81$132+8%$56 – $223
Nevada NV24$131+7%$55 – $214
Kansas KS97$121−1%$60 – $187
Minnesota MN108$121−1%$93 – $162
Wisconsin WI108$120−2%$83 – $144
Washington WA77$119−3%$60 – $216
Nebraska NE82$119−3%$70 – $240
Indiana IN96$115−7%$67 – $175
Georgia GA106$114−7%$48 – $212
New Mexico NM31$113−8%$65 – $241
Wyoming WY16$111−10%$66 – $202
New Hampshire NH25$109−11%$30 – $161
Michigan MI98$107−12%$63 – $159
New York NY116$107−13%$55 – $488
Kentucky KY69$107−13%$58 – $257
Iowa IA94$97−21%$62 – $146
Oklahoma OK72$94−23%$51 – $161
Arizona AZ57$93−24%$56 – $433
West Virginia WV43$92−25%$45 – $174
North Carolina NC96$92−25%$45 – $189
North Dakota ND31$90−26%$70 – $107
New Jersey NJ57$84−32%$54 – $154
Maine ME27$82−33%$49 – $148
Montana MT33$82−33%$55 – $147
Louisiana LA54$63−49%$34 – $110
Arkansas AR40$63−49%$45 – $153
Alabama AL46$59−52%$46 – $148
Mississippi MS58$48−61%$26 – $87
Tennessee TN83$40−67%$28 – $157
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 $123.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,430$129$58 – $240
Children’s70$162$107 – $345
Critical access1,006$110$61 – $183
Ownership
For-profit492$146$60 – $314
Government669$105$52 – $188
Non-profit2,345$129$62 – $219
System affiliation
Part of a system2,850$128$60 – $232
Independent666$109$55 – $190

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$205
Median cash price$123
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 $128 and the average of the middle 60% is $133; most fall between $63 and $223.

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
$45$76$128$202$301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($45 vs $301).

Of the 2,695 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,546 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,516 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 3,698 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,516
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
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 — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,698

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 Ea 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 infusion of medication, each additional hour (CPT 96366) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96366-iv-infusion-of-medication-each-additional-hour