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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Start of artery chemotherapy infusion over 8 hours with pump

CPT 96425the billing code this page is about

Covers starting a chemotherapy infusion into an artery that runs longer than eight hours using a portable or implanted pump.

Hospitals typically charge $577 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 550 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $624. Most fall between $317 and $1,021 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
550
States
46
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 550 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
$209$362$577$1,011$1,488

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($209 vs $1,488).

How the prices are spread

$157 – $200: 24 hospitals$157$200 – $255: 24 hospitals$255 – $326: 43 hospitals$255$326 – $416: 65 hospitals$416 – $530: 68 hospitals$416$530 – $677: 68 hospitals$677 – $864: 51 hospitals$677$864 – $1,103: 88 hospitals$1,103 – $1,407: 28 hospitals$1,103$1,407 – $1,796: 42 hospitals$1,407median $577price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (501 of 550 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$157$20024
$200$25524
$255$32643
$326$41665
$416$53068
$530$67768
$677$86451
$864$1,10388
$1,103$1,40728
$1,407$1,79642

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$577
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.71×

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 $577.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 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: median $429 across 11 hospitalsMN$429Illinois: median $407 across 17 hospitalsIL$407Wisconsin: median $646 across 14 hospitalsWI$646Michigan: median $772 across 20 hospitalsMI$772New York: median $412 across 37 hospitalsNY$412Massachusetts: median $1,236 across 11 hospitalsMA$1,236Oregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $317 across 16 hospitalsIA$317Indiana: median $896 across 17 hospitalsIN$896Ohio: median $1,488 across 34 hospitalsOH$1,488Pennsylvania: median $188 across 20 hospitalsPA$188New Jersey: median $367 across 14 hospitalsNJ$367Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,019 across 71 hospitalsCA$1,019Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $1,007 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,007West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $172 across 10 hospitalsTN$172North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $263 across 18 hospitalsOK$263Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $571 across 17 hospitalsGA$571Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $656 across 53 hospitalsTX$656Florida: median $1,004 across 45 hospitalsFL$1,004
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $577. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH34$1,488+158%$445 – $1,796
Massachusetts MA11$1,236+114%$1,011 – $1,729
California CA71$1,019+77%$502 – $1,501
Kentucky KY11$1,007+74%$376 – $1,007
Florida FL45$1,004+74%$536 – $1,434
Indiana IN17$896+55%$584 – $1,189
Michigan MI20$772+34%$454 – $896
Texas TX53$656+14%$504 – $1,034
Wisconsin WI14$646+12%$444 – $646
Georgia GA17$571−1%$571 – $1,296
Minnesota MN11$429−26%$429 – $965
New York NY37$412−29%$393 – $1,180
Illinois IL17$407−29%$155 – $591
New Jersey NJ14$367−36%$236 – $391
Iowa IA16$317−45%$317 – $407
Oklahoma OK18$263−54%$157 – $263
Pennsylvania PA20$188−67%$118 – $389
Tennessee TN10$172−70%$171 – $319
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not 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
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $577.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care485$577$317 – $1,034
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access56$613$340 – $931
Ownership
For-profit54$577$263 – $1,501
Government61$440$355 – $859
Non-profit433$579$317 – $1,030
System affiliation
Part of a system482$580$317 – $1,034
Independent68$469$245 – $844

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,148
Median cash price$577
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

375 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $622 and the average of the middle 60% is $668; most fall between $317 and $1,034.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 375 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$355$622$1,019$1,488

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($199 vs $1,488).

Of the 398 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 375 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

550 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 574 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted550
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code574

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 Chemotx Admn Ia Nfs >8 Hr Prtble Impltbl Pmp.

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, “Start of artery chemotherapy infusion over 8 hours with pump (CPT 96425) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96425-start-of-artery-chemotherapy-infusion-over-8-hours-with-pump