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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy infusion into an artery, first hour

CPT 96422the billing code this page is about

Covers the first hour of dripping a chemotherapy drug into an artery; additional hours are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $535 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 674 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $563. Most fall between $294 and $913 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
674
States
44
Filings dated
Oct 2024 – 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 674 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
$205$316$535$839$1,358

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($205 vs $1,358).

How the prices are spread

$161 – $203: 36 hospitals$161$203 – $256: 54 hospitals$256 – $322: 52 hospitals$256$322 – $406: 84 hospitals$406 – $512: 61 hospitals$406$512 – $645: 93 hospitals$645 – $813: 88 hospitals$645$813 – $1,025: 78 hospitals$1,025 – $1,292: 21 hospitals$1,025$1,292 – $1,628: 44 hospitals$1,292median $535price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (611 of 674 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$161$20336
$203$25654
$256$32252
$322$40684
$406$51261
$512$64593
$645$81388
$813$1,02578
$1,025$1,29221
$1,292$1,62844

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$535
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.59×

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 $535.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $452 across 14 hospitalsWA$452Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $716 across 24 hospitalsIL$716Wisconsin: median $756 across 38 hospitalsWI$756Michigan: median $454 across 13 hospitalsMI$454New York: median $412 across 38 hospitalsNY$412Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $299 across 16 hospitalsIA$299Indiana: median $517 across 22 hospitalsIN$517Ohio: median $535 across 38 hospitalsOH$535Pennsylvania: median $324 across 32 hospitalsPA$324New Jersey: median $367 across 18 hospitalsNJ$367Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $913 across 73 hospitalsCA$913Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $330 across 12 hospitalsNE$330Missouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $486 across 12 hospitalsWV$486Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,846 across 15 hospitalsAZ$1,846New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $296 across 15 hospitalsTN$296North Carolina: median $876 across 24 hospitalsNC$876South Carolina: median $255 across 20 hospitalsSC$255Oklahoma: median $244 across 19 hospitalsOK$244Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $605 across 24 hospitalsGA$605Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $775 across 60 hospitalsTX$775Florida: median $669 across 61 hospitalsFL$669
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $535. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ15$1,846+245%$223 – $1,846
California CA73$913+71%$471 – $1,477
North Carolina NC24$876+64%$171 – $876
Texas TX60$775+45%$342 – $836
Wisconsin WI38$756+41%$542 – $883
Illinois IL24$716+34%$253 – $726
Florida FL61$669+25%$492 – $1,004
Georgia GA24$605+13%$605 – $890
Ohio OH38$5350%$400 – $1,488
Indiana IN22$517−3%$159 – $780
West Virginia WV12$486−9%$464 – $1,255
Michigan MI13$454−15%$214 – $756
Washington WA14$452−16%$312 – $869
New York NY38$412−23%$392 – $718
New Jersey NJ18$367−31%$363 – $427
Nebraska NE12$330−38%$282 – $407
Pennsylvania PA32$324−39%$169 – $515
Iowa IA16$299−44%$299 – $299
Tennessee TN15$296−45%$167 – $312
South Carolina SC20$255−52%$250 – $255
Oklahoma OK19$244−54%$162 – $244
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $535.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care582$530$289 – $913
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access75$584$295 – $794
Ownership
For-profit78$698$374 – $1,628
Government93$427$253 – $876
Non-profit500$522$280 – $913
System affiliation
Part of a system597$560$295 – $913
Independent77$424$279 – $615

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,047
Median cash price$535
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

486 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $572 and the average of the middle 60% is $592; most fall between $289 and $913.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 486 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
$199$307$572$876$1,358

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($199 vs $1,358).

Of the 510 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 486 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

674 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 702 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted674
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code702

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 Infus <1 Hr.

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 into an artery, first hour (CPT 96422) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96422-chemotherapy-infusion-into-an-artery-first-hour