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Procedure price report · Cancer chemotherapy

Unlisted chemotherapy procedure

CPT 96549the billing code this page is about

Used when a chemotherapy administration service has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $138 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 926 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $162. Most fall between $60 and $388 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
926
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 926 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
$41$72$138$292$484

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $484).

How the prices are spread

$28 – $38: 28 hospitals$28$38 – $51: 55 hospitals$51 – $69: 94 hospitals$51$69 – $94: 129 hospitals$94 – $127: 94 hospitals$94$127 – $172: 81 hospitals$172 – $233: 80 hospitals$172$233 – $315: 102 hospitals$315 – $427: 71 hospitals$315$427 – $579: 100 hospitals$427median $138price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (834 of 926 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$28$3828
$38$5155
$51$6994
$69$94129
$94$12794
$127$17281
$172$23380
$233$315102
$315$42771
$427$579100

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$48
Median cash price$138
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $138.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $108 across 29 hospitalsWA$108Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 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 $187 across 23 hospitalsMN$187Illinois: median $150 across 38 hospitalsIL$150Wisconsin: median $89 across 24 hospitalsWI$89Michigan: median $216 across 42 hospitalsMI$216New York: median $88 across 47 hospitalsNY$88Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $205 across 28 hospitalsOR$205Nevada: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $77 across 16 hospitalsIN$77Ohio: median $458 across 54 hospitalsOH$458Pennsylvania: median $78 across 32 hospitalsPA$78New Jersey: median $54 across 19 hospitalsNJ$54Connecticut: median $175 across 10 hospitalsCT$175Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $174 across 98 hospitalsCA$174Utah: median $436 across 24 hospitalsUT$436Colorado: median $181 across 17 hospitalsCO$181Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $68 across 10 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: median $145 across 21 hospitalsKY$145West Virginia: median $80 across 16 hospitalsWV$80Virginia: median $97 across 31 hospitalsVA$97Maryland: median $53 across 11 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $436 across 14 hospitalsAZ$436New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $59 across 20 hospitalsTN$59North Carolina: median $207 across 17 hospitalsNC$207South Carolina: median $80 across 11 hospitalsSC$80Oklahoma: median $24 across 14 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $34 across 10 hospitalsLA$34Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $60 across 10 hospitalsAL$60Georgia: median $121 across 22 hospitalsGA$121Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $233 across 70 hospitalsTX$233Florida: median $129 across 48 hospitalsFL$129
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $138. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH54$458+233%$59 – $532
Arizona AZ14$436+216%$91 – $436
Utah UT24$436+216%$388 – $484
Texas TX70$233+69%$84 – $252
Michigan MI42$216+57%$74 – $399
North Carolina NC17$207+50%$61 – $379
Oregon OR28$205+49%$102 – $416
Minnesota MN23$187+36%$89 – $297
Colorado CO17$181+31%$37 – $466
Connecticut CT10$175+27%$66 – $387
California CA98$174+26%$103 – $418
Illinois IL38$150+9%$79 – $540
Kentucky KY21$145+5%$58 – $835
Florida FL48$129−7%$79 – $423
Georgia GA22$121−12%$89 – $920
Washington WA29$108−21%$86 – $151
Virginia VA31$97−30%$59 – $396
Wisconsin WI24$89−35%$79 – $128
New York NY47$88−36%$55 – $175
West Virginia WV16$80−42%$55 – $175
South Carolina SC11$80−42%$72 – $92
Pennsylvania PA32$78−43%$21 – $460
Indiana IN16$77−44%$43 – $384
Missouri MO10$68−51%$45 – $155
Alabama AL10$60−57%$37 – $74
Tennessee TN20$59−58%$17 – $150
New Jersey NJ19$54−61%$51 – $165
Maryland MD11$53−61%$35 – $65
Louisiana LA10$34−75%$17 – $180
Oklahoma OK14$24−83%$8 – $94
Iowa IA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $138.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care807$135$58 – $396
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access103$136$82 – $288
Ownership
For-profit72$175$80 – $436
Government117$89$55 – $215
Non-profit732$142$59 – $396
System affiliation
Part of a system814$148$60 – $396
Independent112$102$60 – $235

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$250
Median cash price$138
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

678 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $155 and the average of the middle 60% is $180; most fall between $73 and $396.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 678 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
$44$84$155$300$469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $469).

Of the 711 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 678 gave a usable cash price; 9 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

926 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 971 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted926
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code971

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 Intraop Hyperthemic Intraperitoneal Chemo C/T 96446.

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, “Unlisted chemotherapy procedure (CPT 96549) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96549-unlisted-chemotherapy-procedure