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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy injected into an artery

CPT 96420the billing code this page is about

Covers giving a chemotherapy drug as a quick injection directly into an artery.

Hospitals typically charge $445 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,342 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $485. Most fall between $244 and $910 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,342
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 1,342 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
$160$275$445$747$1,378

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($160 vs $1,378).

How the prices are spread

$124 – $161: 78 hospitals$124$161 – $211: 80 hospitals$211 – $276: 113 hospitals$211$276 – $360: 160 hospitals$360 – $470: 209 hospitals$360$470 – $614: 179 hospitals$614 – $803: 132 hospitals$614$803 – $1,048: 111 hospitals$1,048 – $1,369: 67 hospitals$1,048$1,369 – $1,789: 81 hospitals$1,369median $445price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,210 of 1,342 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$124$16178
$161$21180
$211$276113
$276$360160
$360$470209
$470$614179
$614$803132
$803$1,048111
$1,048$1,36967
$1,369$1,78981

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$445
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.32×

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 $445.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $596 across 32 hospitalsWA$596Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $351 across 17 hospitalsMN$351Illinois: median $495 across 40 hospitalsIL$495Wisconsin: median $445 across 58 hospitalsWI$445Michigan: median $454 across 43 hospitalsMI$454New York: median $393 across 47 hospitalsNY$393Massachusetts: median $480 across 15 hospitalsMA$480Oregon: median $885 across 17 hospitalsOR$885Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $182 across 18 hospitalsIA$182Indiana: median $260 across 40 hospitalsIN$260Ohio: median $676 across 73 hospitalsOH$676Pennsylvania: median $390 across 62 hospitalsPA$390New Jersey: median $367 across 32 hospitalsNJ$367Connecticut: median $423 across 10 hospitalsCT$423Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $830 across 135 hospitalsCA$830Utah: median $569 across 24 hospitalsUT$569Colorado: median $729 across 31 hospitalsCO$729Nebraska: median $193 across 12 hospitalsNE$193Missouri: median $383 across 26 hospitalsMO$383Kentucky: median $1,332 across 20 hospitalsKY$1,332West Virginia: median $486 across 15 hospitalsWV$486Virginia: median $375 across 34 hospitalsVA$375Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $408 across 31 hospitalsAZ$408New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $156 across 10 hospitalsAR$156Tennessee: median $207 across 34 hospitalsTN$207North Carolina: median $459 across 40 hospitalsNC$459South Carolina: median $244 across 32 hospitalsSC$244Oklahoma: median $160 across 24 hospitalsOK$160Louisiana: median $216 across 25 hospitalsLA$216Mississippi: median $226 across 20 hospitalsMS$226Alabama: median $281 across 13 hospitalsAL$281Georgia: median $350 across 44 hospitalsGA$350Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $600 across 107 hospitalsTX$600Florida: median $667 across 72 hospitalsFL$667
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $445. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY20$1,332+199%$188 – $1,671
Oregon OR17$885+99%$443 – $1,045
California CA135$830+87%$345 – $1,398
Colorado CO31$729+64%$310 – $2,024
Ohio OH73$676+52%$444 – $1,709
Florida FL72$667+50%$339 – $1,176
Texas TX107$600+35%$305 – $747
Washington WA32$596+34%$251 – $816
Utah UT24$569+28%$569 – $669
Illinois IL40$495+11%$162 – $568
West Virginia WV15$486+9%$309 – $865
Massachusetts MA15$480+8%$265 – $1,234
North Carolina NC40$459+3%$239 – $590
Michigan MI43$454+2%$250 – $995
Wisconsin WI58$4450%$308 – $612
Connecticut CT10$423−5%$372 – $1,153
Arizona AZ31$408−8%$152 – $906
New York NY47$393−12%$311 – $732
Pennsylvania PA62$390−12%$195 – $848
Missouri MO26$383−14%$325 – $464
Virginia VA34$375−16%$296 – $841
New Jersey NJ32$367−18%$135 – $435
Minnesota MN17$351−21%$325 – $532
Georgia GA44$350−21%$330 – $619
Alabama AL13$281−37%$175 – $515
Indiana IN40$260−42%$161 – $452
South Carolina SC32$244−45%$225 – $774
Mississippi MS20$226−49%$137 – $508
Louisiana LA25$216−51%$134 – $325
Tennessee TN34$207−53%$137 – $296
Nebraska NE12$193−57%$139 – $274
Iowa IA18$182−59%$182 – $433
Oklahoma OK24$160−64%$110 – $431
Arkansas AR10$156−65%$113 – $285
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $445.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,194$447$244 – $957
Children’s25$591$281 – $1,087
Critical access116$445$214 – $633
Ownership
For-profit165$554$220 – $1,065
Government163$412$239 – $656
Non-profit1,007$445$244 – $906
System affiliation
Part of a system1,197$454$244 – $937
Independent145$393$247 – $774

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$855
Median cash price$445
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

1,044 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $478 and the average of the middle 60% is $509; most fall between $247 and $957.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,044 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
$168$296$478$812$1,378

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($168 vs $1,378).

Of the 1,093 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,044 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,342 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,396 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,342
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,396

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 Admin Intra-Arterial Push Tq.

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 injected into an artery (CPT 96420) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96420-chemotherapy-injected-into-an-artery