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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy IV infusion, first hour

CPT 96413the billing code this page is about

Covers the first hour of dripping a chemotherapy drug into a vein, including setup and monitoring; extra hours are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $601 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,987 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $620. Most fall between $351 and $978 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,987
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 2,987 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
$255$391$601$874$1,357

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($255 vs $1,357).

How the prices are spread

$194 – $242: 106 hospitals$194$242 – $302: 187 hospitals$302 – $377: 234 hospitals$302$377 – $470: 385 hospitals$470 – $586: 382 hospitals$470$586 – $731: 392 hospitals$731 – $912: 457 hospitals$731$912 – $1,137: 269 hospitals$1,137 – $1,418: 152 hospitals$1,137$1,418 – $1,768: 129 hospitals$1,418median $601price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,693 of 2,987 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$194$242106
$242$302187
$302$377234
$377$470385
$470$586382
$586$731392
$731$912457
$912$1,137269
$1,137$1,418152
$1,418$1,768129

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$601
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.78×

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 $601.

Alaska: median $870 across 17 hospitalsAK$870Maine: median $391 across 23 hospitalsME$391Vermont: median $800 across 12 hospitalsVT$800New Hampshire: median $525 across 25 hospitalsNH$525Washington: median $756 across 64 hospitalsWA$756Idaho: median $778 across 22 hospitalsID$778Montana: median $470 across 21 hospitalsMT$470North Dakota: median $708 across 24 hospitalsND$708Minnesota: median $539 across 100 hospitalsMN$539Illinois: median $623 across 112 hospitalsIL$623Wisconsin: median $593 across 103 hospitalsWI$593Michigan: median $488 across 89 hospitalsMI$488New York: median $580 across 108 hospitalsNY$580Massachusetts: median $864 across 52 hospitalsMA$864Oregon: median $768 across 54 hospitalsOR$768Nevada: median $597 across 19 hospitalsNV$597Wyoming: median $468 across 15 hospitalsWY$468South Dakota: median $760 across 37 hospitalsSD$760Iowa: median $543 across 85 hospitalsIA$543Indiana: median $776 across 93 hospitalsIN$776Ohio: median $754 across 141 hospitalsOH$754Pennsylvania: median $651 across 121 hospitalsPA$651New Jersey: median $443 across 56 hospitalsNJ$443Connecticut: median $1,105 across 21 hospitalsCT$1,105Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $874 across 191 hospitalsCA$874Utah: median $752 across 32 hospitalsUT$752Colorado: median $717 across 67 hospitalsCO$717Nebraska: median $530 across 67 hospitalsNE$530Missouri: median $527 across 76 hospitalsMO$527Kentucky: median $554 across 54 hospitalsKY$554West Virginia: median $607 across 39 hospitalsWV$607Virginia: median $738 across 65 hospitalsVA$738Maryland: median $854 across 34 hospitalsMD$854Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $497 across 49 hospitalsAZ$497New Mexico: median $535 across 21 hospitalsNM$535Kansas: median $341 across 69 hospitalsKS$341Arkansas: median $285 across 27 hospitalsAR$285Tennessee: median $260 across 62 hospitalsTN$260North Carolina: median $501 across 81 hospitalsNC$501South Carolina: median $603 across 47 hospitalsSC$603Oklahoma: median $345 across 48 hospitalsOK$345Louisiana: median $343 across 45 hospitalsLA$343Mississippi: median $357 across 40 hospitalsMS$357Alabama: median $425 across 35 hospitalsAL$425Georgia: median $435 across 86 hospitalsGA$435Hawaii: median $708 across 13 hospitalsHI$708Texas: median $541 across 179 hospitalsTX$541Florida: median $890 across 131 hospitalsFL$890
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $601. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT21$1,105+84%$534 – $1,263
Florida FL131$890+48%$497 – $1,352
California CA191$874+45%$467 – $1,666
Alaska AK17$870+45%$456 – $1,266
Massachusetts MA52$864+44%$634 – $1,396
Maryland MD34$854+42%$540 – $1,137
Vermont VT12$800+33%$369 – $1,181
Idaho ID22$778+29%$543 – $1,358
Indiana IN93$776+29%$441 – $1,033
Oregon OR54$768+28%$376 – $981
South Dakota SD37$760+26%$642 – $887
Washington WA64$756+26%$508 – $933
Ohio OH141$754+25%$444 – $1,126
Utah UT32$752+25%$491 – $914
Virginia VA65$738+23%$482 – $1,174
Colorado CO67$717+19%$397 – $1,250
Hawaii HI13$708+18%$659 – $1,067
North Dakota ND24$708+18%$582 – $830
Pennsylvania PA121$651+8%$402 – $1,158
Illinois IL112$623+4%$381 – $1,014
West Virginia WV39$607+1%$305 – $933
South Carolina SC47$6030%$473 – $846
Nevada NV19$597−1%$359 – $1,281
Wisconsin WI103$593−1%$470 – $811
New York NY108$580−4%$303 – $1,657
Kentucky KY54$554−8%$375 – $1,332
Iowa IA85$543−10%$371 – $736
Texas TX179$541−10%$257 – $838
Minnesota MN100$539−10%$434 – $712
New Mexico NM21$535−11%$462 – $713
Nebraska NE67$530−12%$379 – $760
Missouri MO76$527−12%$326 – $799
New Hampshire NH25$525−13%$310 – $734
North Carolina NC81$501−17%$279 – $820
Arizona AZ49$497−17%$200 – $1,530
Michigan MI89$488−19%$335 – $779
Montana MT21$470−22%$345 – $686
Wyoming WY15$468−22%$221 – $658
New Jersey NJ56$443−26%$367 – $877
Georgia GA86$435−28%$329 – $920
Alabama AL35$425−29%$269 – $735
Maine ME23$391−35%$233 – $744
Mississippi MS40$357−41%$219 – $507
Oklahoma OK48$345−43%$247 – $517
Louisiana LA45$343−43%$230 – $569
Kansas KS69$341−43%$232 – $486
Arkansas AR27$285−53%$241 – $334
Tennessee TN62$260−57%$167 – $565
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 $601.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,166$608$354 – $1,048
Children’s63$830$488 – $1,701
Critical access748$566$341 – $822
Ownership
For-profit340$696$359 – $1,420
Government497$541$312 – $820
Non-profit2,140$603$364 – $965
System affiliation
Part of a system2,465$608$359 – $1,000
Independent522$543$336 – $905

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,000
Median cash price$601
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,085 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $609 and the average of the middle 60% is $633; most fall between $361 and $962.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,085 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
$257$413$609$872$1,332

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($257 vs $1,332).

Of the 2,206 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,085 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 87 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,987 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,142 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,987
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code3,142

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 Nfs Tq Up 1 Hr 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 infusion, first hour (CPT 96413) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96413-chemotherapy-iv-infusion-first-hour