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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy infusion into an artery, each additional hour

CPT 96423the billing code this page is about

Billed once for each additional hour that a chemotherapy drug is infused into an artery beyond the first hour.

Hospitals typically charge $144 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 521 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $159. Most fall between $68 and $257 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
521
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 521 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
$55$76$144$249$437

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $437).

How the prices are spread

$46 – $61: 54 hospitals$46$61 – $80: 63 hospitals$80 – $106: 52 hospitals$80$106 – $140: 60 hospitals$140 – $185: 42 hospitals$140$185 – $245: 90 hospitals$245 – $324: 67 hospitals$245$324 – $428: 10 hospitals$428 – $566: 15 hospitals$428$566 – $747: 17 hospitals$566median $144price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (470 of 521 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$46$6154
$61$8063
$80$10652
$106$14060
$140$18542
$185$24590
$245$32467
$324$42810
$428$56615
$566$74717

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$48
Median cash price$144
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.0×

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 $144.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $150 across 15 hospitalsIL$150Wisconsin: median $235 across 11 hospitalsWI$235Michigan: median $64 across 10 hospitalsMI$64New York: median $56 across 34 hospitalsNY$56Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $138 across 16 hospitalsIA$138Indiana: median $88 across 21 hospitalsIN$88Ohio: median $170 across 27 hospitalsOH$170Pennsylvania: median $71 across 27 hospitalsPA$71New Jersey: median $54 across 16 hospitalsNJ$54Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $249 across 72 hospitalsCA$249Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $133 across 12 hospitalsNE$133Missouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $69 across 12 hospitalsWV$69Virginia: 2 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 $715 across 12 hospitalsAZ$715New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $184 across 14 hospitalsNC$184South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $114 across 14 hospitalsOK$114Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $199 across 17 hospitalsGA$199Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $257 across 51 hospitalsTX$257Florida: median $212 across 51 hospitalsFL$212
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $144. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ12$715+398%$96 – $715
Texas TX51$257+79%$208 – $330
California CA72$249+74%$106 – $703
Wisconsin WI11$235+64%$195 – $235
Florida FL51$212+48%$103 – $296
Georgia GA17$199+38%$125 – $199
North Carolina NC14$184+28%$57 – $369
Ohio OH27$170+19%$110 – $207
Illinois IL15$150+4%$70 – $272
Iowa IA16$138−4%$138 – $138
Nebraska NE12$133−7%$81 – $160
Oklahoma OK14$114−20%$114 – $114
Indiana IN21$88−39%$70 – $125
Pennsylvania PA27$71−51%$55 – $91
West Virginia WV12$69−52%$65 – $175
Michigan MI10$64−55%$43 – $87
New York NY34$56−61%$55 – $410
New Jersey NJ16$54−63%$51 – $61
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not 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
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not 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 $144.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care464$145$66 – $257
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$132$70 – $235
Ownership
For-profit69$245$93 – $681
Government66$122$55 – $200
Non-profit384$138$67 – $249
System affiliation
Part of a system454$146$70 – $257
Independent67$141$60 – $225

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$311
Median cash price$144
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

361 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $199 and the average of the middle 60% is $180; most fall between $81 and $265.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 361 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
$64$100$199$255$446

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $446).

Of the 385 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 361 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

521 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 548 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted521
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 — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code548

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 Admn Intraarterial Infusion Ea 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, each additional hour (CPT 96423) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96423-chemotherapy-infusion-into-an-artery-each-additional-hour