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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy injection into up to 7 lesions

CPT 96405the billing code this page is about

Covers injecting anti-cancer medication directly into seven or fewer tumors or skin lesions during one session; the drug is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $151 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 984 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $167. Most fall between $82 and $341 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
984
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 984 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
$55$86$151$292$544

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $544).

How the prices are spread

$40 – $54: 49 hospitals$40$54 – $73: 60 hospitals$73 – $98: 146 hospitals$73$98 – $133: 112 hospitals$133 – $180: 169 hospitals$133$180 – $243: 102 hospitals$243 – $328: 92 hospitals$243$328 – $444: 88 hospitals$444 – $599: 40 hospitals$444$599 – $810: 28 hospitals$599median $151price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (886 of 984 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$40$5449
$54$7360
$73$98146
$98$133112
$133$180169
$180$243102
$243$32892
$328$44488
$444$59940
$599$81028

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$74
Median cash price$151
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $151.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $162 across 25 hospitalsWA$162Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $143 across 28 hospitalsMN$143Illinois: median $214 across 41 hospitalsIL$214Wisconsin: median $151 across 48 hospitalsWI$151Michigan: median $99 across 25 hospitalsMI$99New York: median $84 across 35 hospitalsNY$84Massachusetts: median $174 across 13 hospitalsMA$174Oregon: median $150 across 15 hospitalsOR$150Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $175 across 20 hospitalsIA$175Indiana: median $92 across 36 hospitalsIN$92Ohio: median $199 across 78 hospitalsOH$199Pennsylvania: median $109 across 46 hospitalsPA$109New Jersey: median $93 across 26 hospitalsNJ$93Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $195 across 69 hospitalsCA$195Utah: median $1,302 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,302Colorado: median $245 across 19 hospitalsCO$245Nebraska: median $104 across 12 hospitalsNE$104Missouri: median $163 across 11 hospitalsMO$163Kentucky: median $145 across 19 hospitalsKY$145West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $99 across 22 hospitalsVA$99Maryland: median $334 across 12 hospitalsMD$334Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $213 across 19 hospitalsAZ$213New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $65 across 17 hospitalsTN$65North Carolina: median $139 across 31 hospitalsNC$139South Carolina: median $151 across 20 hospitalsSC$151Oklahoma: median $48 across 17 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: median $118 across 10 hospitalsLA$118Mississippi: median $70 across 16 hospitalsMS$70Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $202 across 38 hospitalsGA$202Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $157 across 49 hospitalsTX$157Florida: median $308 across 55 hospitalsFL$308
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $151. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$1,302+761%$1,302 – $1,532
Maryland MD12$334+121%$203 – $442
Florida FL55$308+104%$108 – $441
Colorado CO19$245+62%$95 – $357
Illinois IL41$214+42%$86 – $396
Arizona AZ19$213+40%$91 – $561
Georgia GA38$202+33%$152 – $619
Ohio OH78$199+32%$83 – $319
California CA69$195+29%$99 – $342
Iowa IA20$175+16%$89 – $175
Massachusetts MA13$174+15%$95 – $337
Missouri MO11$163+7%$79 – $188
Washington WA25$162+7%$75 – $204
Texas TX49$157+4%$104 – $342
South Carolina SC20$1510%$85 – $151
Wisconsin WI48$1510%$107 – $400
Oregon OR15$150−1%$91 – $362
Kentucky KY19$145−4%$63 – $1,592
Minnesota MN28$143−6%$117 – $290
North Carolina NC31$139−8%$82 – $270
Louisiana LA10$118−22%$33 – $137
Pennsylvania PA46$109−28%$52 – $348
Nebraska NE12$104−31%$89 – $134
Michigan MI25$99−35%$59 – $203
Virginia VA22$99−35%$53 – $113
New Jersey NJ26$93−38%$79 – $310
Indiana IN36$92−39%$69 – $169
New York NY35$84−44%$45 – $217
Mississippi MS16$70−54%$51 – $93
Tennessee TN17$65−57%$39 – $90
Oklahoma OK17$48−69%$48 – $220
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not 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 $151.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care839$151$82 – $342
Children’s24$162$86 – $379
Critical access116$151$86 – $308
Ownership
For-profit81$149$85 – $457
Government120$156$72 – $270
Non-profit778$151$82 – $341
System affiliation
Part of a system873$152$83 – $342
Independent111$110$65 – $211

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$275
Median cash price$151
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

717 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $156 and the average of the middle 60% is $178; most fall between $83 and $342.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 717 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
$52$95$156$308$508

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($52 vs $508).

Of the 752 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 717 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

984 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,025 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted984
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code1,025

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 Chemotherapy Administration Intralesional </7.

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, “Chemotherapy injection into up to 7 lesions (CPT 96405) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96405-chemotherapy-injection-into-up-to-7-lesions