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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy IV infusion, each additional drug up to 1 hour

CPT 96417the billing code this page is about

Billed for each additional different chemotherapy drug infused into a vein one after another during the same visit, covering up to one hour of that drug.

Hospitals typically charge $256 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,588 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $264. Most fall between $122 and $478 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,588
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 2,588 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
$85$139$256$404$663

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $663).

How the prices are spread

$70 – $90: 156 hospitals$70$90 – $117: 190 hospitals$117 – $151: 242 hospitals$117$151 – $195: 243 hospitals$195 – $253: 319 hospitals$195$253 – $328: 397 hospitals$328 – $424: 309 hospitals$328$424 – $549: 219 hospitals$549 – $711: 156 hospitals$549$711 – $920: 99 hospitals$711median $256price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,330 of 2,588 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$70$90156
$90$117190
$117$151242
$151$195243
$195$253319
$253$328397
$328$424309
$424$549219
$549$711156
$711$92099

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$74
Median cash price$256
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.5×

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 $256.

Alaska: median $302 across 12 hospitalsAK$302Maine: median $131 across 20 hospitalsME$131Vermont: median $218 across 10 hospitalsVT$218New Hampshire: median $216 across 22 hospitalsNH$216Washington: median $245 across 50 hospitalsWA$245Idaho: median $254 across 18 hospitalsID$254Montana: median $184 across 19 hospitalsMT$184North Dakota: median $255 across 12 hospitalsND$255Minnesota: median $263 across 91 hospitalsMN$263Illinois: median $308 across 96 hospitalsIL$308Wisconsin: median $267 across 91 hospitalsWI$267Michigan: median $211 across 84 hospitalsMI$211New York: median $180 across 104 hospitalsNY$180Massachusetts: median $374 across 42 hospitalsMA$374Oregon: median $249 across 45 hospitalsOR$249Nevada: median $245 across 17 hospitalsNV$245Wyoming: median $240 across 13 hospitalsWY$240South Dakota: median $401 across 21 hospitalsSD$401Iowa: median $222 across 66 hospitalsIA$222Indiana: median $221 across 86 hospitalsIN$221Ohio: median $319 across 135 hospitalsOH$319Pennsylvania: median $234 across 114 hospitalsPA$234New Jersey: median $123 across 53 hospitalsNJ$123Connecticut: median $220 across 21 hospitalsCT$220Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $504 across 174 hospitalsCA$504Utah: median $429 across 29 hospitalsUT$429Colorado: median $263 across 64 hospitalsCO$263Nebraska: median $289 across 57 hospitalsNE$289Missouri: median $298 across 72 hospitalsMO$298Kentucky: median $234 across 47 hospitalsKY$234West Virginia: median $157 across 30 hospitalsWV$157Virginia: median $375 across 58 hospitalsVA$375Maryland: median $53 across 30 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $162 across 41 hospitalsAZ$162New Mexico: median $323 across 14 hospitalsNM$323Kansas: median $150 across 42 hospitalsKS$150Arkansas: median $115 across 23 hospitalsAR$115Tennessee: median $118 across 57 hospitalsTN$118North Carolina: median $263 across 74 hospitalsNC$263South Carolina: median $248 across 45 hospitalsSC$248Oklahoma: median $155 across 39 hospitalsOK$155Louisiana: median $134 across 43 hospitalsLA$134Mississippi: median $120 across 31 hospitalsMS$120Alabama: median $157 across 25 hospitalsAL$157Georgia: median $293 across 72 hospitalsGA$293Hawaii: median $170 across 12 hospitalsHI$170Texas: median $314 across 150 hospitalsTX$314Florida: median $308 across 102 hospitalsFL$308
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $256. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA174$504+97%$159 – $793
Utah UT29$429+67%$231 – $522
South Dakota SD21$401+56%$242 – $482
Virginia VA58$375+46%$285 – $588
Massachusetts MA42$374+46%$186 – $733
New Mexico NM14$323+26%$118 – $644
Ohio OH135$319+25%$192 – $601
Texas TX150$314+23%$120 – $412
Florida FL102$308+20%$158 – $634
Illinois IL96$308+20%$166 – $501
Alaska AK12$302+18%$255 – $491
Missouri MO72$298+16%$129 – $394
Georgia GA72$293+14%$182 – $558
Nebraska NE57$289+13%$165 – $406
Wisconsin WI91$267+4%$185 – $358
North Carolina NC74$263+3%$118 – $390
Minnesota MN91$263+2%$177 – $327
Colorado CO64$263+2%$159 – $544
North Dakota ND12$2550%$147 – $391
Idaho ID18$254−1%$196 – $292
Oregon OR45$249−3%$151 – $431
South Carolina SC45$248−3%$203 – $427
Nevada NV17$245−4%$127 – $692
Washington WA50$245−4%$165 – $581
Wyoming WY13$240−6%$96 – $359
Kentucky KY47$234−9%$127 – $881
Pennsylvania PA114$234−9%$122 – $593
Iowa IA66$222−13%$146 – $393
Indiana IN86$221−14%$135 – $380
Connecticut CT21$220−14%$128 – $615
Vermont VT10$218−15%$131 – $303
New Hampshire NH22$216−16%$116 – $354
Michigan MI84$211−18%$118 – $348
Montana MT19$184−28%$108 – $275
New York NY104$180−30%$84 – $1,260
Hawaii HI12$170−34%$155 – $293
Arizona AZ41$162−37%$91 – $932
West Virginia WV30$157−39%$119 – $269
Alabama AL25$157−39%$89 – $232
Oklahoma OK39$155−39%$78 – $293
Kansas KS42$150−41%$70 – $306
Louisiana LA43$134−48%$75 – $270
Maine ME20$131−49%$75 – $213
New Jersey NJ53$123−52%$84 – $251
Mississippi MS31$120−53%$72 – $183
Tennessee TN57$118−54%$70 – $190
Arkansas AR23$115−55%$101 – $256
Maryland MD30$53−79%$31 – $84
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 $256.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,988$249$116 – $504
Children’s49$361$234 – $842
Critical access543$267$143 – $401
Ownership
For-profit263$285$136 – $647
Government405$232$112 – $367
Non-profit1,912$265$122 – $501
System affiliation
Part of a system2,176$267$123 – $489
Independent412$225$117 – $423

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$443
Median cash price$256
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

1,836 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $267 and the average of the middle 60% is $279; most fall between $129 and $504.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,836 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
$94$152$267$428$679

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $679).

Of the 1,936 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,836 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,588 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,712 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,588
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 — excluded84
Hospitals that filed this code2,712

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 HC Chemo IV Infn Second 1hr 96417.

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, each additional drug up to 1 hour (CPT 96417) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96417-chemotherapy-iv-infusion-each-additional-drug-up-to-1-hour