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High-dose iridium-192 radiation seed, per source

HCPCS C1717the billing code this page is about

Covers one loose (nonstranded) high-dose-rate iridium-192 radioactive source used in internal radiation treatment; billed per source.

Hospitals typically charge $939 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 147 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,618. Most fall between $556 and $3,907 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
147
States
28
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – Aug 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 147 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
$323$591$939$3,711$38,792

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 120× what the cheapest tenth charges ($323 vs $38,792).

How the prices are spread

$171 – $301: 5 hospitals$171$301 – $529: 16 hospitals$529 – $930: 41 hospitals$529$930 – $1,636: 20 hospitals$1,636 – $2,876: 10 hospitals$1,636$2,876 – $5,058: 23 hospitals$5,058 – $8,895: 2 hospitals$5,058$8,895 – $15,642: 0 hospitals$15,642 – $27,509: 0 hospitals$15,642$27,509 – $48,376: 23 hospitals$27,509median $939price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (140 of 147 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$171$3015
$301$52916
$529$93041
$930$1,63620
$1,636$2,87610
$2,876$5,05823
$5,058$8,8952
$8,895$15,6420
$15,642$27,5090
$27,509$48,37623

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$357
Median cash price$939
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $939.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,026 across 19 hospitalsIN$1,026Ohio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $3,907 across 10 hospitalsPA$3,907New Jersey: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $38,792 across 22 hospitalsUT$38,792Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $791 across 30 hospitalsTX$791Florida: median $591 across 10 hospitalsFL$591
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $939. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT22$38,792+4030%$38,792 – $48,376
Pennsylvania PA10$3,907+316%$512 – $3,907
Indiana IN19$1,026+9%$810 – $1,472
Texas TX30$791−16%$791 – $3,711
Florida FL10$591−37%$591 – $942
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not 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 $939.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care129$870$502 – $3,907
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit12fewer than 20 hospitals
Government7fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit127$1,026$546 – $3,983
System affiliation
Part of a system136$1,060$591 – $3,907
Independent11fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,650
Median cash price$939
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

119 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $914 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,859; most fall between $546 and $4,958.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 119 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
$323$591$914$3,907$38,792

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 120× what the cheapest tenth charges ($323 vs $38,792).

Of the 132 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 119 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

147 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 162 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted147
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code162

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Brachytx, Non-Str,Hdr IR-192.

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, “High-dose iridium-192 radiation seed, per source (CPT C1717) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c1717-high-dose-iridium-192-radiation-seed-per-source