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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Non-hormonal chemotherapy shot under skin or in muscle

CPT 96401the billing code this page is about

Covers giving a non-hormonal anti-cancer medication as an injection under the skin or into a muscle; the drug is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $211 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,780 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $219. Most fall between $110 and $370 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,780
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 2,780 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
$81$128$211$326$543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $543).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $84: 160 hospitals$66$84 – $107: 211 hospitals$107 – $136: 240 hospitals$107$136 – $173: 343 hospitals$173 – $220: 361 hospitals$173$220 – $280: 406 hospitals$280 – $356: 335 hospitals$280$356 – $454: 190 hospitals$454 – $577: 162 hospitals$454$577 – $735: 96 hospitals$577median $211price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,504 of 2,780 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$84160
$84$107211
$107$136240
$136$173343
$173$220361
$220$280406
$280$356335
$356$454190
$454$577162
$577$73596

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$74
Median cash price$211
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $211.

Alaska: median $312 across 13 hospitalsAK$312Maine: median $147 across 21 hospitalsME$147Vermont: median $185 across 10 hospitalsVT$185New Hampshire: median $176 across 22 hospitalsNH$176Washington: median $243 across 50 hospitalsWA$243Idaho: median $228 across 19 hospitalsID$228Montana: median $184 across 20 hospitalsMT$184North Dakota: median $194 across 17 hospitalsND$194Minnesota: median $223 across 94 hospitalsMN$223Illinois: median $246 across 104 hospitalsIL$246Wisconsin: median $221 across 100 hospitalsWI$221Michigan: median $201 across 88 hospitalsMI$201New York: median $166 across 102 hospitalsNY$166Massachusetts: median $271 across 47 hospitalsMA$271Oregon: median $184 across 49 hospitalsOR$184Nevada: median $206 across 18 hospitalsNV$206Wyoming: median $286 across 13 hospitalsWY$286South Dakota: median $251 across 30 hospitalsSD$251Iowa: median $173 across 77 hospitalsIA$173Indiana: median $204 across 87 hospitalsIN$204Ohio: median $257 across 135 hospitalsOH$257Pennsylvania: median $211 across 105 hospitalsPA$211New Jersey: median $95 across 55 hospitalsNJ$95Connecticut: median $252 across 21 hospitalsCT$252Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $390 across 189 hospitalsCA$390Utah: median $276 across 31 hospitalsUT$276Colorado: median $265 across 66 hospitalsCO$265Nebraska: median $248 across 66 hospitalsNE$248Missouri: median $181 across 75 hospitalsMO$181Kentucky: median $150 across 51 hospitalsKY$150West Virginia: median $155 across 31 hospitalsWV$155Virginia: median $250 across 61 hospitalsVA$250Maryland: median $230 across 34 hospitalsMD$230Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $244 across 46 hospitalsAZ$244New Mexico: median $109 across 20 hospitalsNM$109Kansas: median $115 across 66 hospitalsKS$115Arkansas: median $122 across 31 hospitalsAR$122Tennessee: median $88 across 58 hospitalsTN$88North Carolina: median $166 across 79 hospitalsNC$166South Carolina: median $237 across 47 hospitalsSC$237Oklahoma: median $104 across 46 hospitalsOK$104Louisiana: median $104 across 42 hospitalsLA$104Mississippi: median $103 across 34 hospitalsMS$103Alabama: median $110 across 27 hospitalsAL$110Georgia: median $190 across 80 hospitalsGA$190Hawaii: median $242 across 12 hospitalsHI$242Texas: median $266 across 161 hospitalsTX$266Florida: median $280 across 115 hospitalsFL$280
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $211. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA189$390+85%$147 – $598
Alaska AK13$312+47%$200 – $427
Wyoming WY13$286+35%$190 – $336
Florida FL115$280+32%$168 – $441
Utah UT31$276+30%$208 – $345
Massachusetts MA47$271+28%$151 – $540
Texas TX161$266+26%$135 – $389
Colorado CO66$265+25%$172 – $399
Ohio OH135$257+22%$164 – $517
Connecticut CT21$252+19%$102 – $327
South Dakota SD30$251+19%$203 – $312
Virginia VA61$250+18%$159 – $284
Nebraska NE66$248+17%$162 – $333
Illinois IL104$246+17%$117 – $408
Arizona AZ46$244+16%$179 – $684
Washington WA50$243+15%$162 – $328
Hawaii HI12$242+14%$170 – $337
South Carolina SC47$237+12%$165 – $450
Maryland MD34$230+9%$163 – $442
Idaho ID19$228+8%$143 – $292
Minnesota MN94$223+6%$137 – $260
Wisconsin WI100$221+5%$148 – $327
Pennsylvania PA105$2110%$98 – $495
Nevada NV18$206−2%$120 – $301
Indiana IN87$204−4%$110 – $304
Michigan MI88$201−5%$108 – $322
North Dakota ND17$194−8%$142 – $254
Georgia GA80$190−10%$128 – $496
Vermont VT10$185−12%$105 – $316
Oregon OR49$184−13%$125 – $258
Montana MT20$184−13%$129 – $215
Missouri MO75$181−14%$95 – $302
New Hampshire NH22$176−16%$84 – $352
Iowa IA77$173−18%$115 – $240
New York NY102$166−21%$84 – $861
North Carolina NC79$166−22%$109 – $267
West Virginia WV31$155−27%$92 – $269
Kentucky KY51$150−29%$108 – $484
Maine ME21$147−30%$71 – $189
Arkansas AR31$122−42%$112 – $195
Kansas KS66$115−46%$54 – $188
Alabama AL27$110−48%$71 – $297
New Mexico NM20$109−48%$76 – $204
Oklahoma OK46$104−51%$55 – $175
Louisiana LA42$104−51%$76 – $210
Mississippi MS34$103−51%$74 – $236
New Jersey NJ55$95−55%$79 – $210
Tennessee TN58$88−58%$48 – $179
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $211.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,080$214$108 – $400
Children’s52$308$158 – $579
Critical access638$198$117 – $301
Ownership
For-profit291$238$107 – $509
Government460$181$98 – $308
Non-profit2,019$215$116 – $365
System affiliation
Part of a system2,307$221$115 – $382
Independent473$172$104 – $317

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$363
Median cash price$211
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,971 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $228 and the average of the middle 60% is $231; most fall between $119 and $383.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,971 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
$85$139$228$343$543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $543).

Of the 2,080 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,971 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,780 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,920 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,780
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,920

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 September 4, 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 Cancer chemotherapy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Chemo Non-Hormonal Sq/Im 96401.

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, “Non-hormonal chemotherapy shot under skin or in muscle (CPT 96401) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96401-non-hormonal-chemotherapy-shot-under-skin-or-in-muscle