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Newborn intensive care, first day (28 days old or younger)

CPT 99468the billing code this page is about

Physician critical care for a newborn up to 28 days old in the hospital, covering the first day of that care; one unit is one calendar day.

Hospitals typically charge $1,668 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 428 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,719. Most fall between $1,033 and $2,512 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
428
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 428 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
$719$1,170$1,668$2,236$3,680

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($719 vs $3,680).

How the prices are spread

$546 – $668: 16 hospitals$546$668 – $818: 14 hospitals$818 – $1,002: 34 hospitals$818$1,002 – $1,226: 29 hospitals$1,226 – $1,502: 48 hospitals$1,226$1,502 – $1,838: 89 hospitals$1,838 – $2,251: 75 hospitals$1,838$2,251 – $2,756: 31 hospitals$2,756 – $3,374: 18 hospitals$2,756$3,374 – $4,130: 33 hospitals$3,374median $1,668price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (387 of 428 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$546$66816
$668$81814
$818$1,00234
$1,002$1,22629
$1,226$1,50248
$1,502$1,83889
$1,838$2,25175
$2,251$2,75631
$2,756$3,37418
$3,374$4,13033

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,668.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,513 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,513New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,632 across 12 hospitalsWA$1,632Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $1,416 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,416North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,235 across 39 hospitalsMN$2,235Illinois: median $1,475 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,475Wisconsin: median $3,680 across 32 hospitalsWI$3,680Michigan: median $1,792 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,792New York: median $1,664 across 27 hospitalsNY$1,664Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,603 across 12 hospitalsOR$1,603Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,657 across 29 hospitalsIA$1,657Indiana: median $865 across 22 hospitalsIN$865Ohio: median $2,274 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,274Pennsylvania: median $571 across 11 hospitalsPA$571New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 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 $758 across 11 hospitalsCA$758Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,842 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,842Missouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,443 across 14 hospitalsKS$1,443Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,668 across 11 hospitalsOK$1,668Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,668. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI32$3,680+121%$1,961 – $4,155
Ohio OH13$2,274+36%$1,025 – $5,279
Minnesota MN39$2,235+34%$1,456 – $3,779
Nebraska NE14$1,842+10%$1,684 – $2,512
Michigan MI31$1,792+7%$1,066 – $1,794
Oklahoma OK11$1,6680%$1,668 – $1,668
New York NY27$1,6640%$859 – $2,305
Iowa IA29$1,657−1%$1,456 – $2,024
Washington WA12$1,632−2%$1,476 – $2,223
Oregon OR12$1,603−4%$1,603 – $2,506
Vermont VT10$1,513−9%$1,170 – $2,054
Illinois IL13$1,475−12%$835 – $1,657
Kansas KS14$1,443−13%$1,127 – $1,925
Montana MT10$1,416−15%$995 – $2,094
Indiana IN22$865−48%$672 – $1,757
California CA11$758−55%$428 – $1,425
Pennsylvania PA11$571−66%$546 – $645
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,668.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care256$1,657$878 – $2,225
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access163$1,896$1,180 – $3,179
Ownership
For-profit25$1,380$587 – $2,040
Government93$1,761$1,098 – $2,598
Non-profit310$1,668$1,066 – $2,531
System affiliation
Part of a system307$1,668$978 – $2,556
Independent121$1,740$1,089 – $2,454

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,385
Median cash price$1,668
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,664 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,727; most fall between $1,155 and $2,315.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 271 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
$840$1,287$1,664$2,233$3,053

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($840 vs $3,053).

Of the 294 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 271 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

428 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 460 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted428
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code460

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as 1st Inpatient Critical Care PR Day Age 28 Days/<.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Newborn intensive care, first day (28 days old or younger) (CPT 99468) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99468-newborn-intensive-care-first-day-28-days-old-or-younger