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IV push injection of a single drug

CPT 96374the billing code this page is about

Covers a rapid intravenous injection of one medication, given over a short period rather than as a drip infusion; the drug is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $217 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,530 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $225. Most fall between $117 and $378 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,530
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 3,530 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
$78$134$217$331$528

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($78 vs $528).

How the prices are spread

$60 – $76: 164 hospitals$60$76 – $97: 166 hospitals$97 – $123: 264 hospitals$97$123 – $157: 348 hospitals$157 – $200: 442 hospitals$157$200 – $255: 589 hospitals$255 – $325: 489 hospitals$255$325 – $415: 302 hospitals$415 – $528: 247 hospitals$415$528 – $673: 171 hospitals$528median $217price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,182 of 3,530 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$60$76164
$76$97166
$97$123264
$123$157348
$157$200442
$200$255589
$255$325489
$325$415302
$415$528247
$528$673171

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$217
Median cash price$217
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $217.

Alaska: median $345 across 19 hospitalsAK$345Maine: median $180 across 28 hospitalsME$180Vermont: median $239 across 14 hospitalsVT$239New Hampshire: median $138 across 25 hospitalsNH$138Washington: median $231 across 78 hospitalsWA$231Idaho: median $250 across 24 hospitalsID$250Montana: median $147 across 34 hospitalsMT$147North Dakota: median $295 across 31 hospitalsND$295Minnesota: median $184 across 108 hospitalsMN$184Illinois: median $215 across 134 hospitalsIL$215Wisconsin: median $165 across 109 hospitalsWI$165Michigan: median $197 across 99 hospitalsMI$197New York: median $252 across 115 hospitalsNY$252Massachusetts: median $383 across 53 hospitalsMA$383Oregon: median $213 across 56 hospitalsOR$213Nevada: median $216 across 24 hospitalsNV$216Wyoming: median $144 across 16 hospitalsWY$144South Dakota: median $260 across 45 hospitalsSD$260Iowa: median $161 across 96 hospitalsIA$161Indiana: median $183 across 97 hospitalsIN$183Ohio: median $241 across 148 hospitalsOH$241Pennsylvania: median $251 across 126 hospitalsPA$251New Jersey: median $246 across 56 hospitalsNJ$246Connecticut: median $357 across 23 hospitalsCT$357Rhode Island: median $221 across 10 hospitalsRI$221California: median $354 across 223 hospitalsCA$354Utah: median $263 across 43 hospitalsUT$263Colorado: median $195 across 73 hospitalsCO$195Nebraska: median $229 across 83 hospitalsNE$229Missouri: median $192 across 81 hospitalsMO$192Kentucky: median $218 across 69 hospitalsKY$218West Virginia: median $204 across 43 hospitalsWV$204Virginia: median $271 across 73 hospitalsVA$271Maryland: median $454 across 39 hospitalsMD$454Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $158 across 57 hospitalsAZ$158New Mexico: median $219 across 31 hospitalsNM$219Kansas: median $115 across 95 hospitalsKS$115Arkansas: median $106 across 40 hospitalsAR$106Tennessee: median $120 across 83 hospitalsTN$120North Carolina: median $196 across 96 hospitalsNC$196South Carolina: median $245 across 53 hospitalsSC$245Oklahoma: median $146 across 72 hospitalsOK$146Louisiana: median $97 across 53 hospitalsLA$97Mississippi: median $126 across 58 hospitalsMS$126Alabama: median $164 across 46 hospitalsAL$164Georgia: median $184 across 107 hospitalsGA$184Hawaii: median $280 across 21 hospitalsHI$280Texas: median $231 across 251 hospitalsTX$231Florida: median $303 across 165 hospitalsFL$303
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $217. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD39$454+109%$176 – $632
Massachusetts MA53$383+77%$206 – $584
Connecticut CT23$357+65%$216 – $671
California CA223$354+63%$190 – $585
Alaska AK19$345+59%$190 – $558
Florida FL165$303+39%$181 – $495
North Dakota ND31$295+36%$194 – $460
Hawaii HI21$280+29%$250 – $503
Virginia VA73$271+25%$171 – $316
Utah UT43$263+21%$210 – $291
South Dakota SD45$260+20%$158 – $350
New York NY115$252+16%$110 – $567
Pennsylvania PA126$251+16%$146 – $507
Idaho ID24$250+15%$125 – $734
New Jersey NJ56$246+13%$126 – $324
South Carolina SC53$245+13%$175 – $294
Ohio OH148$241+11%$141 – $610
Vermont VT14$239+10%$121 – $374
Washington WA78$231+7%$146 – $470
Texas TX251$231+6%$135 – $362
Nebraska NE83$229+6%$136 – $310
Rhode Island RI10$221+2%$124 – $505
New Mexico NM31$219+1%$126 – $313
Kentucky KY69$218+1%$126 – $410
Nevada NV24$2160%$149 – $282
Illinois IL134$215−1%$117 – $406
Oregon OR56$213−2%$101 – $317
West Virginia WV43$204−6%$105 – $408
Michigan MI99$197−9%$109 – $292
North Carolina NC96$196−10%$138 – $312
Colorado CO73$195−10%$147 – $346
Missouri MO81$192−12%$98 – $242
Georgia GA107$184−15%$130 – $409
Minnesota MN108$184−15%$115 – $219
Indiana IN97$183−16%$99 – $301
Maine ME28$180−17%$128 – $316
Wisconsin WI109$165−24%$128 – $234
Alabama AL46$164−25%$93 – $225
Iowa IA96$161−26%$96 – $259
Arizona AZ57$158−27%$110 – $527
Montana MT34$147−32%$84 – $231
Oklahoma OK72$146−33%$96 – $270
Wyoming WY16$144−34%$111 – $200
New Hampshire NH25$138−37%$44 – $321
Mississippi MS58$126−42%$72 – $281
Tennessee TN83$120−45%$70 – $246
Kansas KS95$115−47%$60 – $259
Arkansas AR40$106−51%$102 – $227
Louisiana LA53$97−55%$64 – $246
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 $217.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,440$233$128 – $426
Children’s68$236$130 – $528
Critical access1,012$186$102 – $298
Ownership
For-profit493$260$136 – $531
Government669$185$90 – $303
Non-profit2,358$220$123 – $375
System affiliation
Part of a system2,863$224$124 – $396
Independent667$191$91 – $326

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$371
Median cash price$217
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

2,559 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $222 and the average of the middle 60% is $229; most fall between $122 and $380.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,559 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
$83$139$222$332$521

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $521).

Of the 2,699 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,559 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,530 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 3,706 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,530
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 — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,706

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 HC Non-Chemo Ivp/Rpd Inf Prm 96374.

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 push injection of a single drug (CPT 96374) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96374-iv-push-injection-of-a-single-drug