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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Chemotherapy into the abdominal cavity through a port

CPT 96446the billing code this page is about

Covers putting a chemotherapy drug into the abdominal cavity using an already implanted port or catheter.

Hospitals typically charge $551 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,017 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $574. Most fall between $292 and $1,004 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,017
States
49
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,017 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
$187$341$551$861$1,358

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($187 vs $1,358).

How the prices are spread

$108 – $142: 13 hospitals$108$142 – $187: 41 hospitals$187 – $246: 45 hospitals$187$246 – $323: 78 hospitals$323 – $425: 148 hospitals$323$425 – $559: 148 hospitals$559 – $735: 174 hospitals$559$735 – $965: 100 hospitals$965 – $1,269: 99 hospitals$965$1,269 – $1,668: 72 hospitals$1,269median $551price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (918 of 1,017 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$108$14213
$142$18741
$187$24645
$246$32378
$323$425148
$425$559148
$559$735174
$735$965100
$965$1,26999
$1,269$1,66872

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$551
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.63×

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 $551.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $620 across 31 hospitalsWA$620Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $812 across 20 hospitalsMN$812Illinois: median $591 across 31 hospitalsIL$591Wisconsin: median $590 across 40 hospitalsWI$590Michigan: median $454 across 27 hospitalsMI$454New York: median $393 across 36 hospitalsNY$393Massachusetts: median $726 across 12 hospitalsMA$726Oregon: median $861 across 15 hospitalsOR$861Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $354 across 16 hospitalsIA$354Indiana: median $341 across 42 hospitalsIN$341Ohio: median $852 across 84 hospitalsOH$852Pennsylvania: median $703 across 48 hospitalsPA$703New Jersey: median $391 across 34 hospitalsNJ$391Connecticut: median $376 across 11 hospitalsCT$376Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $691 across 92 hospitalsCA$691Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $928 across 21 hospitalsCO$928Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $587 across 21 hospitalsMO$587Kentucky: median $875 across 23 hospitalsKY$875West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $396 across 15 hospitalsVA$396Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $524 across 19 hospitalsAZ$524New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $167 across 34 hospitalsTN$167North Carolina: median $708 across 34 hospitalsNC$708South Carolina: median $575 across 23 hospitalsSC$575Oklahoma: median $37 across 17 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: median $152 across 18 hospitalsLA$152Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $613 across 35 hospitalsGA$613Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $476 across 65 hospitalsTX$476Florida: median $551 across 55 hospitalsFL$551
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $551. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO21$928+68%$582 – $1,649
Kentucky KY23$875+59%$286 – $5,028
Oregon OR15$861+56%$609 – $1,414
Ohio OH84$852+55%$486 – $1,488
Minnesota MN20$812+47%$352 – $1,067
Massachusetts MA12$726+32%$479 – $942
North Carolina NC34$708+28%$461 – $732
Pennsylvania PA48$703+28%$389 – $1,071
California CA92$691+25%$475 – $1,019
Washington WA31$620+12%$361 – $816
Georgia GA35$613+11%$338 – $743
Illinois IL31$591+7%$167 – $725
Wisconsin WI40$590+7%$376 – $1,194
Missouri MO21$587+6%$338 – $722
South Carolina SC23$575+4%$535 – $575
Florida FL55$5510%$398 – $1,004
Arizona AZ19$524−5%$168 – $2,202
Texas TX65$476−14%$269 – $507
Michigan MI27$454−18%$358 – $657
Virginia VA15$396−28%$64 – $957
New York NY36$393−29%$392 – $1,175
New Jersey NJ34$391−29%$356 – $452
Connecticut CT11$376−32%$287 – $1,389
Iowa IA16$354−36%$354 – $822
Indiana IN42$341−38%$216 – $933
Tennessee TN34$167−70%$64 – $256
Louisiana LA18$152−73%$108 – $429
Oklahoma OK17$37−93%$37 – $266
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $551.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care905$551$301 – $983
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access96$487$238 – $1,067
Ownership
For-profit82$476$251 – $852
Government118$437$307 – $743
Non-profit813$572$300 – $1,019
System affiliation
Part of a system921$555$301 – $1,014
Independent96$473$268 – $806

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,023
Median cash price$551
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

778 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $572 and the average of the middle 60% is $595; most fall between $330 and $1,010.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 778 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
$216$354$572$937$1,340

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($216 vs $1,340).

Of the 816 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 778 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,017 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,067 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,017
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code1,067

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 PR Chemotx Admn Prtl Cavity Port/Cath.

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 into the abdominal cavity through a port (CPT 96446) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96446-chemotherapy-into-the-abdominal-cavity-through-a-port