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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy injection into more than 7 lesions

CPT 96406the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $276 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 792 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $320. Most fall between $164 and $621 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
792
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 792 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
$103$181$276$511$923

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($103 vs $923).

How the prices are spread

$74 – $96: 32 hospitals$74$96 – $126: 43 hospitals$126 – $165: 49 hospitals$126$165 – $216: 84 hospitals$216 – $282: 157 hospitals$216$282 – $369: 95 hospitals$369 – $484: 83 hospitals$369$484 – $633: 64 hospitals$633 – $828: 59 hospitals$633$828 – $1,084: 51 hospitals$828median $276price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (717 of 792 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$74$9632
$96$12643
$126$16549
$165$21684
$216$282157
$282$36995
$369$48483
$484$63364
$633$82859
$828$1,08451

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$217
Median cash price$276
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $276.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $346 across 17 hospitalsWA$346Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $302 across 39 hospitalsIL$302Wisconsin: median $245 across 41 hospitalsWI$245Michigan: median $245 across 13 hospitalsMI$245New York: median $249 across 29 hospitalsNY$249Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $238 across 18 hospitalsIA$238Indiana: median $164 across 30 hospitalsIN$164Ohio: median $395 across 63 hospitalsOH$395Pennsylvania: median $278 across 41 hospitalsPA$278New Jersey: median $233 across 20 hospitalsNJ$233Connecticut: 5 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 $468 across 62 hospitalsCA$468Utah: median $2,086 across 12 hospitalsUT$2,086Colorado: median $377 across 11 hospitalsCO$377Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $179 across 10 hospitalsMO$179Kentucky: median $116 across 10 hospitalsKY$116West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $285 across 18 hospitalsVA$285Maryland: median $371 across 11 hospitalsMD$371Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $261 across 19 hospitalsAZ$261New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $65 across 18 hospitalsTN$65North Carolina: median $365 across 30 hospitalsNC$365South Carolina: median $296 across 19 hospitalsSC$296Oklahoma: median $74 across 17 hospitalsOK$74Louisiana: median $133 across 10 hospitalsLA$133Mississippi: median $154 across 13 hospitalsMS$154Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $661 across 38 hospitalsGA$661Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $320 across 40 hospitalsTX$320Florida: median $355 across 51 hospitalsFL$355
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $276. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT12$2,086+656%$2,086 – $2,086
Georgia GA38$661+139%$250 – $757
California CA62$468+70%$230 – $717
Ohio OH63$395+43%$247 – $945
Colorado CO11$377+36%$221 – $418
Maryland MD11$371+35%$203 – $471
North Carolina NC30$365+32%$179 – $590
Florida FL51$355+28%$218 – $941
Washington WA17$346+25%$176 – $528
Texas TX40$320+16%$223 – $376
Illinois IL39$302+9%$178 – $526
South Carolina SC19$296+7%$141 – $296
Virginia VA18$285+3%$43 – $487
Pennsylvania PA41$278+1%$33 – $504
Arizona AZ19$261−5%$148 – $1,260
New York NY29$249−10%$217 – $626
Michigan MI13$245−11%$98 – $292
Wisconsin WI41$245−11%$152 – $417
Iowa IA18$238−14%$238 – $258
New Jersey NJ20$233−15%$124 – $419
Missouri MO10$179−35%$98 – $485
Indiana IN30$164−41%$103 – $249
Mississippi MS13$154−44%$139 – $243
Louisiana LA10$133−52%$90 – $349
Kentucky KY10$116−58%$103 – $221
Oklahoma OK17$74−73%$74 – $357
Tennessee TN18$65−77%$43 – $131
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $276.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care684$292$171 – $637
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access91$245$139 – $376
Ownership
For-profit70$250$135 – $802
Government99$258$177 – $590
Non-profit619$281$161 – $615
System affiliation
Part of a system710$293$171 – $626
Independent82$227$118 – $418

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$582
Median cash price$276
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

579 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $309 and the average of the middle 60% is $368; most fall between $169 and $717.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 579 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
$103$190$309$590$945

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($103 vs $945).

Of the 607 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 579 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

792 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 830 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted792
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
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 — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code830

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Chemotherapy injection into more than 7 lesions (CPT 96406) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96406-chemotherapy-injection-into-more-than-7-lesions