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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy infusion over 8 hours with a portable pump

CPT 96416the billing code this page is about

Setting up and starting a continuous chemotherapy infusion into a vein that runs longer than eight hours using a portable pump, including connecting to an existing access device.

Hospitals typically charge $629 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,138 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $649. Most fall between $344 and $1,091 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,138
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 2,138 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
$245$392$629$946$1,522

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $1,522).

How the prices are spread

$180 – $230: 74 hospitals$180$230 – $293: 149 hospitals$293 – $373: 162 hospitals$293$373 – $475: 233 hospitals$475 – $605: 288 hospitals$475$605 – $771: 315 hospitals$771 – $983: 316 hospitals$771$983 – $1,252: 158 hospitals$1,252 – $1,595: 142 hospitals$1,252$1,595 – $2,033: 91 hospitals$1,595median $629price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,928 of 2,138 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$180$23074
$230$293149
$293$373162
$373$475233
$475$605288
$605$771315
$771$983316
$983$1,252158
$1,252$1,595142
$1,595$2,03391

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$629
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.86×

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 $629.

Alaska: median $679 across 14 hospitalsAK$679Maine: median $341 across 17 hospitalsME$341Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $403 across 21 hospitalsNH$403Washington: median $816 across 45 hospitalsWA$816Idaho: median $713 across 16 hospitalsID$713Montana: median $505 across 17 hospitalsMT$505North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $436 across 84 hospitalsMN$436Illinois: median $665 across 87 hospitalsIL$665Wisconsin: median $611 across 79 hospitalsWI$611Michigan: median $521 across 60 hospitalsMI$521New York: median $613 across 85 hospitalsNY$613Massachusetts: median $1,212 across 41 hospitalsMA$1,212Oregon: median $816 across 37 hospitalsOR$816Nevada: median $770 across 15 hospitalsNV$770Wyoming: median $702 across 10 hospitalsWY$702South Dakota: median $817 across 17 hospitalsSD$817Iowa: median $473 across 48 hospitalsIA$473Indiana: median $661 across 72 hospitalsIN$661Ohio: median $866 across 126 hospitalsOH$866Pennsylvania: median $605 across 68 hospitalsPA$605New Jersey: median $433 across 47 hospitalsNJ$433Connecticut: median $681 across 17 hospitalsCT$681Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $818 across 154 hospitalsCA$818Utah: median $650 across 26 hospitalsUT$650Colorado: median $568 across 42 hospitalsCO$568Nebraska: median $537 across 43 hospitalsNE$537Missouri: median $523 across 44 hospitalsMO$523Kentucky: median $463 across 37 hospitalsKY$463West Virginia: median $560 across 22 hospitalsWV$560Virginia: median $957 across 43 hospitalsVA$957Maryland: median $858 across 23 hospitalsMD$858Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $498 across 26 hospitalsAZ$498New Mexico: median $714 across 13 hospitalsNM$714Kansas: median $352 across 26 hospitalsKS$352Arkansas: median $238 across 19 hospitalsAR$238Tennessee: median $258 across 46 hospitalsTN$258North Carolina: median $507 across 67 hospitalsNC$507South Carolina: median $592 across 42 hospitalsSC$592Oklahoma: median $397 across 32 hospitalsOK$397Louisiana: median $366 across 39 hospitalsLA$366Mississippi: median $336 across 29 hospitalsMS$336Alabama: median $372 across 20 hospitalsAL$372Georgia: median $656 across 60 hospitalsGA$656Hawaii: median $753 across 12 hospitalsHI$753Texas: median $678 across 130 hospitalsTX$678Florida: median $848 across 91 hospitalsFL$848
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $629. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA41$1,212+93%$653 – $1,753
Virginia VA43$957+52%$564 – $1,295
Ohio OH126$866+38%$647 – $1,488
Maryland MD23$858+36%$560 – $1,211
Florida FL91$848+35%$621 – $1,234
California CA154$818+30%$539 – $1,620
South Dakota SD17$817+30%$630 – $892
Washington WA45$816+30%$561 – $1,018
Oregon OR37$816+30%$383 – $999
Nevada NV15$770+22%$359 – $1,209
Hawaii HI12$753+20%$679 – $1,190
New Mexico NM13$714+14%$463 – $873
Idaho ID16$713+13%$582 – $1,358
Wyoming WY10$702+12%$163 – $902
Connecticut CT17$681+8%$534 – $1,225
Alaska AK14$679+8%$512 – $1,588
Texas TX130$678+8%$383 – $832
Illinois IL87$665+6%$373 – $1,075
Indiana IN72$661+5%$344 – $1,182
Georgia GA60$656+4%$384 – $1,364
Utah UT26$650+3%$563 – $791
New York NY85$613−3%$393 – $1,657
Wisconsin WI79$611−3%$470 – $788
Pennsylvania PA68$605−4%$389 – $2,033
South Carolina SC42$592−6%$587 – $846
Colorado CO42$568−10%$332 – $1,104
West Virginia WV22$560−11%$384 – $1,255
Nebraska NE43$537−15%$276 – $715
Missouri MO44$523−17%$311 – $706
Michigan MI60$521−17%$377 – $703
North Carolina NC67$507−19%$268 – $1,360
Montana MT17$505−20%$216 – $709
Arizona AZ26$498−21%$232 – $2,134
Iowa IA48$473−25%$283 – $690
Kentucky KY37$463−26%$336 – $1,270
Minnesota MN84$436−31%$267 – $708
New Jersey NJ47$433−31%$367 – $1,358
New Hampshire NH21$403−36%$308 – $1,105
Oklahoma OK32$397−37%$187 – $786
Alabama AL20$372−41%$245 – $580
Louisiana LA39$366−42%$239 – $580
Kansas KS26$352−44%$264 – $2,247
Maine ME17$341−46%$224 – $506
Mississippi MS29$336−47%$156 – $507
Tennessee TN46$258−59%$162 – $320
Arkansas AR19$238−62%$128 – $459
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $629.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,670$635$346 – $1,120
Children’s44$1,137$459 – $1,728
Critical access418$580$335 – $857
Ownership
For-profit204$753$390 – $1,504
Government335$541$310 – $948
Non-profit1,593$635$349 – $1,064
System affiliation
Part of a system1,794$636$349 – $1,119
Independent344$562$329 – $972

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,083
Median cash price$629
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

1,507 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $650 and the average of the middle 60% is $667; most fall between $336 and $1,072.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,507 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
$240$402$650$944$1,488

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($240 vs $1,488).

Of the 1,609 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,507 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,138 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,264 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,138
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
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 — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code2,264

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 CHEMO PROLONG INFUSE W/PUMP.

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 infusion over 8 hours with a portable pump (CPT 96416) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96416-chemotherapy-infusion-over-8-hours-with-a-portable-pump