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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy IV push of a single drug

CPT 96409the billing code this page is about

Covers a rapid intravenous injection of one anti-cancer medication; the drug itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $392 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,682 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $408. Most fall between $227 and $652 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,682
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 2,682 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
$166$255$392$590$923

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($166 vs $923).

How the prices are spread

$126 – $159: 103 hospitals$126$159 – $200: 169 hospitals$200 – $252: 243 hospitals$200$252 – $318: 321 hospitals$318 – $401: 420 hospitals$318$401 – $506: 355 hospitals$506 – $638: 374 hospitals$506$638 – $804: 213 hospitals$804 – $1,014: 124 hospitals$804$1,014 – $1,279: 94 hospitals$1,014median $392price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,416 of 2,682 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$126$159103
$159$200169
$200$252243
$252$318321
$318$401420
$401$506355
$506$638374
$638$804213
$804$1,014124
$1,014$1,27994

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$392
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $392.

Alaska: median $462 across 12 hospitalsAK$462Maine: median $271 across 19 hospitalsME$271Vermont: median $500 across 10 hospitalsVT$500New Hampshire: median $253 across 22 hospitalsNH$253Washington: median $559 across 53 hospitalsWA$559Idaho: median $500 across 20 hospitalsID$500Montana: median $325 across 19 hospitalsMT$325North Dakota: median $384 across 14 hospitalsND$384Minnesota: median $344 across 88 hospitalsMN$344Illinois: median $436 across 100 hospitalsIL$436Wisconsin: median $396 across 93 hospitalsWI$396Michigan: median $350 across 88 hospitalsMI$350New York: median $457 across 101 hospitalsNY$457Massachusetts: median $586 across 46 hospitalsMA$586Oregon: median $472 across 48 hospitalsOR$472Nevada: median $388 across 18 hospitalsNV$388Wyoming: median $281 across 13 hospitalsWY$281South Dakota: median $506 across 18 hospitalsSD$506Iowa: median $364 across 74 hospitalsIA$364Indiana: median $396 across 84 hospitalsIN$396Ohio: median $499 across 135 hospitalsOH$499Pennsylvania: median $502 across 117 hospitalsPA$502New Jersey: median $369 across 55 hospitalsNJ$369Connecticut: median $561 across 19 hospitalsCT$561Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $666 across 180 hospitalsCA$666Utah: median $513 across 29 hospitalsUT$513Colorado: median $390 across 66 hospitalsCO$390Nebraska: median $360 across 56 hospitalsNE$360Missouri: median $352 across 72 hospitalsMO$352Kentucky: median $373 across 48 hospitalsKY$373West Virginia: median $289 across 32 hospitalsWV$289Virginia: median $540 across 60 hospitalsVA$540Maryland: median $477 across 33 hospitalsMD$477Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $253 across 42 hospitalsAZ$253New Mexico: median $352 across 16 hospitalsNM$352Kansas: median $212 across 57 hospitalsKS$212Arkansas: median $203 across 26 hospitalsAR$203Tennessee: median $167 across 60 hospitalsTN$167North Carolina: median $295 across 74 hospitalsNC$295South Carolina: median $359 across 44 hospitalsSC$359Oklahoma: median $254 across 42 hospitalsOK$254Louisiana: median $211 across 43 hospitalsLA$211Mississippi: median $228 across 34 hospitalsMS$228Alabama: median $294 across 26 hospitalsAL$294Georgia: median $321 across 75 hospitalsGA$321Hawaii: median $447 across 12 hospitalsHI$447Texas: median $400 across 160 hospitalsTX$400Florida: median $627 across 115 hospitalsFL$627
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $392. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA180$666+70%$293 – $1,009
Florida FL115$627+60%$328 – $858
Massachusetts MA46$586+49%$368 – $887
Connecticut CT19$561+43%$330 – $827
Washington WA53$559+42%$335 – $620
Virginia VA60$540+38%$255 – $642
Utah UT29$513+31%$401 – $624
South Dakota SD18$506+29%$370 – $570
Pennsylvania PA117$502+28%$277 – $791
Idaho ID20$500+28%$314 – $1,358
Vermont VT10$500+27%$257 – $744
Ohio OH135$499+27%$295 – $778
Maryland MD33$477+22%$293 – $661
Oregon OR48$472+20%$232 – $745
Alaska AK12$462+18%$372 – $752
New York NY101$457+16%$281 – $1,063
Hawaii HI12$447+14%$443 – $721
Illinois IL100$436+11%$250 – $645
Texas TX160$400+2%$222 – $561
Wisconsin WI93$396+1%$249 – $562
Indiana IN84$396+1%$261 – $552
Colorado CO66$390−1%$268 – $798
Nevada NV18$388−1%$186 – $715
North Dakota ND14$384−2%$303 – $465
Kentucky KY48$373−5%$204 – $1,332
New Jersey NJ55$369−6%$291 – $452
Iowa IA74$364−7%$209 – $492
Nebraska NE56$360−8%$269 – $470
South Carolina SC44$359−8%$333 – $476
New Mexico NM16$352−10%$232 – $474
Missouri MO72$352−10%$216 – $509
Michigan MI88$350−11%$246 – $473
Minnesota MN88$344−12%$208 – $403
Montana MT19$325−17%$236 – $417
Georgia GA75$321−18%$255 – $591
North Carolina NC74$295−25%$171 – $590
Alabama AL26$294−25%$185 – $360
West Virginia WV32$289−26%$220 – $472
Wyoming WY13$281−28%$209 – $491
Maine ME19$271−31%$169 – $467
Oklahoma OK42$254−35%$119 – $318
New Hampshire NH22$253−35%$160 – $564
Arizona AZ42$253−35%$177 – $1,210
Mississippi MS34$228−42%$151 – $327
Kansas KS57$212−46%$144 – $327
Louisiana LA43$211−46%$141 – $322
Arkansas AR26$203−48%$162 – $264
Tennessee TN60$167−57%$110 – $345
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 $392.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,043$403$228 – $696
Children’s51$469$327 – $923
Critical access578$363$223 – $546
Ownership
For-profit283$437$249 – $942
Government429$343$205 – $570
Non-profit1,960$397$230 – $653
System affiliation
Part of a system2,237$394$228 – $666
Independent445$364$220 – $608

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$681
Median cash price$392
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

1,886 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $407 and the average of the middle 60% is $420; most fall between $231 and $663.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,886 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
$167$259$407$595$919

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($167 vs $919).

Of the 1,993 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,886 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,682 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,810 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,682
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code2,810

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 IV Push Tq 1/1st Sbst/Drug.

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 IV push of a single drug (CPT 96409) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96409-chemotherapy-iv-push-of-a-single-drug