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Shot of medication into muscle or under the skin

CPT 96372the billing code this page is about

Covers giving one injection of a drug into a muscle or under the skin for treatment, prevention, or diagnosis; the drug itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $92 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,550 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $96. Most fall between $41 and $173 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,550
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 3,550 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
$27$49$92$152$236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $236).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 139 hospitals$19$25 – $33: 167 hospitals$33 – $44: 293 hospitals$33$44 – $58: 301 hospitals$58 – $77: 386 hospitals$58$77 – $102: 527 hospitals$102 – $136: 478 hospitals$102$136 – $181: 440 hospitals$181 – $240: 300 hospitals$181$240 – $319: 175 hospitals$240median $92price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,206 of 3,550 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$25139
$25$33167
$33$44293
$44$58301
$58$77386
$77$102527
$102$136478
$136$181440
$181$240300
$240$319175

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$74
Median cash price$92
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.25×

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 $92.

Alaska: median $116 across 19 hospitalsAK$116Maine: median $67 across 28 hospitalsME$67Vermont: median $44 across 14 hospitalsVT$44New Hampshire: median $56 across 25 hospitalsNH$56Washington: median $97 across 78 hospitalsWA$97Idaho: median $113 across 25 hospitalsID$113Montana: median $49 across 34 hospitalsMT$49North Dakota: median $72 across 32 hospitalsND$72Minnesota: median $72 across 109 hospitalsMN$72Illinois: median $104 across 135 hospitalsIL$104Wisconsin: median $86 across 108 hospitalsWI$86Michigan: median $93 across 99 hospitalsMI$93New York: median $99 across 118 hospitalsNY$99Massachusetts: median $136 across 54 hospitalsMA$136Oregon: median $59 across 56 hospitalsOR$59Nevada: median $97 across 24 hospitalsNV$97Wyoming: median $56 across 16 hospitalsWY$56South Dakota: median $84 across 45 hospitalsSD$84Iowa: median $73 across 96 hospitalsIA$73Indiana: median $74 across 97 hospitalsIN$74Ohio: median $131 across 148 hospitalsOH$131Pennsylvania: median $101 across 130 hospitalsPA$101New Jersey: median $89 across 58 hospitalsNJ$89Connecticut: median $157 across 23 hospitalsCT$157Rhode Island: median $99 across 10 hospitalsRI$99California: median $167 across 221 hospitalsCA$167Utah: median $147 across 42 hospitalsUT$147Colorado: median $96 across 73 hospitalsCO$96Nebraska: median $88 across 83 hospitalsNE$88Missouri: median $91 across 82 hospitalsMO$91Kentucky: median $85 across 70 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: median $68 across 43 hospitalsWV$68Virginia: median $102 across 73 hospitalsVA$102Maryland: median $94 across 40 hospitalsMD$94Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $61 across 57 hospitalsAZ$61New Mexico: median $80 across 31 hospitalsNM$80Kansas: median $50 across 93 hospitalsKS$50Arkansas: median $47 across 41 hospitalsAR$47Tennessee: median $56 across 83 hospitalsTN$56North Carolina: median $95 across 96 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $127 across 53 hospitalsSC$127Oklahoma: median $63 across 72 hospitalsOK$63Louisiana: median $54 across 54 hospitalsLA$54Mississippi: median $44 across 58 hospitalsMS$44Alabama: median $62 across 46 hospitalsAL$62Georgia: median $105 across 107 hospitalsGA$105Hawaii: median $152 across 21 hospitalsHI$152Texas: median $147 across 251 hospitalsTX$147Florida: median $143 across 172 hospitalsFL$143
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $92. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA221$167+81%$81 – $268
Connecticut CT23$157+71%$102 – $205
Hawaii HI21$152+65%$124 – $170
Utah UT42$147+60%$81 – $173
Texas TX251$147+60%$53 – $198
Florida FL172$143+55%$66 – $270
Massachusetts MA54$136+48%$32 – $208
Ohio OH148$131+43%$53 – $214
South Carolina SC53$127+38%$40 – $185
Alaska AK19$116+26%$73 – $150
Idaho ID25$113+22%$36 – $176
Georgia GA107$105+14%$52 – $216
Illinois IL135$104+13%$42 – $182
Virginia VA73$102+11%$89 – $156
Pennsylvania PA130$101+10%$52 – $163
Rhode Island RI10$99+8%$80 – $245
New York NY118$99+7%$40 – $254
Nevada NV24$97+6%$51 – $191
Washington WA78$97+5%$41 – $162
Colorado CO73$96+4%$52 – $149
North Carolina NC96$95+3%$48 – $140
Maryland MD40$94+2%$52 – $123
Michigan MI99$93+1%$35 – $144
Missouri MO82$91−1%$41 – $160
New Jersey NJ58$89−3%$68 – $155
Nebraska NE83$88−4%$34 – $173
Wisconsin WI108$86−6%$55 – $129
Kentucky KY70$85−8%$25 – $202
South Dakota SD45$84−9%$22 – $129
New Mexico NM31$80−13%$58 – $137
Indiana IN97$74−19%$27 – $131
Iowa IA96$73−21%$38 – $103
North Dakota ND32$72−22%$23 – $125
Minnesota MN109$72−22%$34 – $94
West Virginia WV43$68−27%$36 – $109
Maine ME28$67−27%$41 – $112
Oklahoma OK72$63−32%$33 – $112
Alabama AL46$62−33%$38 – $126
Arizona AZ57$61−34%$41 – $164
Oregon OR56$59−36%$29 – $144
Wyoming WY16$56−39%$36 – $121
Tennessee TN83$56−39%$32 – $124
New Hampshire NH25$56−39%$23 – $101
Louisiana LA54$54−42%$29 – $102
Kansas KS93$50−46%$32 – $84
Montana MT34$49−47%$34 – $85
Arkansas AR41$47−49%$32 – $95
Mississippi MS58$44−52%$26 – $89
Vermont VT14$44−52%$32 – $105
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 $92.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,456$102$49 – $187
Children’s71$140$49 – $215
Critical access1,013$67$32 – $125
Ownership
For-profit494$129$63 – $265
Government668$67$32 – $123
Non-profit2,378$94$43 – $173
System affiliation
Part of a system2,876$97$45 – $180
Independent674$68$34 – $133

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$162
Median cash price$92
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

2,607 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $100 and the average of the middle 60% is $104; most fall between $48 and $174.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,607 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
$32$56$100$156$217

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $217).

Of the 2,754 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,607 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 1 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

3,550 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (90%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,734 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,550
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded123
Hospitals that filed this code3,734

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 Therapeutic Prophylactic/Dx Injection Subq/Im.

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, “Shot of medication into muscle or under the skin (CPT 96372) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96372-shot-of-medication-into-muscle-or-under-the-skin