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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Hormonal chemotherapy shot under skin or in muscle

CPT 96402the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $172 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,663 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $180. Most fall between $85 and $319 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,663
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 2,663 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
$60$98$172$280$457

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $457).

How the prices are spread

$49 – $62: 153 hospitals$49$62 – $80: 183 hospitals$80 – $103: 239 hospitals$80$103 – $131: 287 hospitals$131 – $169: 324 hospitals$131$169 – $216: 343 hospitals$216 – $277: 326 hospitals$216$277 – $356: 253 hospitals$356 – $456: 155 hospitals$356$456 – $585: 135 hospitals$456median $172price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,398 of 2,663 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$49$62153
$62$80183
$80$103239
$103$131287
$131$169324
$169$216343
$216$277326
$277$356253
$356$456155
$456$585135

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$74
Median cash price$172
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $172.

Alaska: median $227 across 13 hospitalsAK$227Maine: median $97 across 25 hospitalsME$97Vermont: median $128 across 13 hospitalsVT$128New Hampshire: median $150 across 22 hospitalsNH$150Washington: median $165 across 51 hospitalsWA$165Idaho: median $165 across 20 hospitalsID$165Montana: median $108 across 22 hospitalsMT$108North Dakota: median $132 across 19 hospitalsND$132Minnesota: median $142 across 90 hospitalsMN$142Illinois: median $217 across 103 hospitalsIL$217Wisconsin: median $134 across 98 hospitalsWI$134Michigan: median $129 across 88 hospitalsMI$129New York: median $149 across 102 hospitalsNY$149Massachusetts: median $218 across 43 hospitalsMA$218Oregon: median $167 across 49 hospitalsOR$167Nevada: median $137 across 17 hospitalsNV$137Wyoming: median $108 across 12 hospitalsWY$108South Dakota: median $203 across 35 hospitalsSD$203Iowa: median $128 across 72 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $171 across 87 hospitalsIN$171Ohio: median $232 across 135 hospitalsOH$232Pennsylvania: median $165 across 113 hospitalsPA$165New Jersey: median $95 across 54 hospitalsNJ$95Connecticut: median $252 across 20 hospitalsCT$252Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $270 across 180 hospitalsCA$270Utah: median $208 across 29 hospitalsUT$208Colorado: median $266 across 57 hospitalsCO$266Nebraska: median $207 across 66 hospitalsNE$207Missouri: median $182 across 74 hospitalsMO$182Kentucky: median $153 across 47 hospitalsKY$153West Virginia: median $124 across 33 hospitalsWV$124Virginia: median $196 across 50 hospitalsVA$196Maryland: median $334 across 33 hospitalsMD$334Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $179 across 39 hospitalsAZ$179New Mexico: median $125 across 15 hospitalsNM$125Kansas: median $72 across 54 hospitalsKS$72Arkansas: median $63 across 20 hospitalsAR$63Tennessee: median $74 across 56 hospitalsTN$74North Carolina: median $139 across 76 hospitalsNC$139South Carolina: median $198 across 43 hospitalsSC$198Oklahoma: median $104 across 39 hospitalsOK$104Louisiana: median $93 across 41 hospitalsLA$93Mississippi: median $93 across 32 hospitalsMS$93Alabama: median $110 across 23 hospitalsAL$110Georgia: median $201 across 74 hospitalsGA$201Hawaii: median $170 across 13 hospitalsHI$170Texas: median $254 across 152 hospitalsTX$254Florida: median $274 across 100 hospitalsFL$274
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $172. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD33$334+94%$205 – $442
Florida FL100$274+60%$83 – $399
California CA180$270+58%$107 – $489
Colorado CO57$266+55%$156 – $382
Texas TX152$254+48%$104 – $322
Connecticut CT20$252+47%$102 – $350
Ohio OH135$232+35%$124 – $460
Alaska AK13$227+32%$158 – $391
Massachusetts MA43$218+27%$111 – $372
Illinois IL103$217+26%$99 – $347
Utah UT29$208+21%$189 – $252
Nebraska NE66$207+21%$105 – $286
South Dakota SD35$203+18%$139 – $256
Georgia GA74$201+17%$128 – $442
South Carolina SC43$198+16%$115 – $296
Virginia VA50$196+14%$125 – $248
Missouri MO74$182+6%$106 – $270
Arizona AZ39$179+4%$107 – $552
Indiana IN87$1710%$81 – $254
Hawaii HI13$170−1%$54 – $259
Oregon OR49$167−2%$96 – $253
Idaho ID20$165−4%$108 – $292
Pennsylvania PA113$165−4%$89 – $496
Washington WA51$165−4%$109 – $261
Kentucky KY47$153−11%$71 – $319
New Hampshire NH22$150−12%$61 – $341
New York NY102$149−13%$84 – $652
Minnesota MN90$142−17%$91 – $200
North Carolina NC76$139−19%$79 – $270
Nevada NV17$137−20%$120 – $217
Wisconsin WI98$134−22%$118 – $192
North Dakota ND19$132−23%$88 – $201
Michigan MI88$129−25%$89 – $242
Iowa IA72$128−25%$91 – $210
Vermont VT13$128−25%$53 – $307
New Mexico NM15$125−27%$76 – $225
West Virginia WV33$124−28%$54 – $194
Alabama AL23$110−36%$64 – $202
Montana MT22$108−37%$69 – $191
Wyoming WY12$108−37%$82 – $281
Oklahoma OK39$104−39%$57 – $175
Maine ME25$97−44%$61 – $186
New Jersey NJ54$95−45%$79 – $194
Mississippi MS32$93−46%$56 – $236
Louisiana LA41$93−46%$59 – $145
Tennessee TN56$74−57%$48 – $118
Kansas KS54$72−58%$44 – $216
Arkansas AR20$63−63%$55 – $154
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not 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 $172.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,979$178$84 – $337
Children’s42$321$157 – $569
Critical access634$156$84 – $242
Ownership
For-profit253$201$86 – $442
Government433$155$73 – $278
Non-profit1,969$172$89 – $319
System affiliation
Part of a system2,212$179$90 – $322
Independent451$145$68 – $278

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$290
Median cash price$172
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,880 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $182 and the average of the middle 60% is $191; most fall between $90 and $328.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,880 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
$62$107$182$292$473

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($62 vs $473).

Of the 1,977 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,880 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 80 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,663 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,793 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,663
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 code2,793

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 Chemotx Admn Subq/Im Hormonal Anti-Neo.

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, “Hormonal chemotherapy shot under skin or in muscle (CPT 96402) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96402-hormonal-chemotherapy-shot-under-skin-or-in-muscle