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Flu shot administration

HCPCS G0008the billing code this page is about

The service of giving an influenza vaccine injection; the vaccine product itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $42 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 383 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $41. Most fall between $15 and $86 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
383
States
45
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 383 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
$13$16$42$82$111

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $111).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $15: 75 hospitals$12$15 – $20: 14 hospitals$20 – $25: 29 hospitals$20$25 – $32: 26 hospitals$32 – $41: 29 hospitals$32$41 – $53: 49 hospitals$53 – $68: 28 hospitals$53$68 – $87: 40 hospitals$87 – $112: 40 hospitals$87$112 – $143: 16 hospitals$112median $42price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (346 of 383 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1575
$15$2014
$20$2529
$25$3226
$32$4129
$41$5349
$53$6828
$68$8740
$87$11240
$112$14316

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$48
Median cash price$42
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $42.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $13 across 11 hospitalsMN$13Illinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $15 across 16 hospitalsMI$15New York: median $98 across 28 hospitalsNY$98Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $13 across 14 hospitalsIA$13Indiana: median $38 across 28 hospitalsIN$38Ohio: median $21 across 14 hospitalsOH$21Pennsylvania: median $83 across 19 hospitalsPA$83New Jersey: median $6,925 across 10 hospitalsNJ$6,925Connecticut: 8 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 $54 across 19 hospitalsCA$54Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $82 across 17 hospitalsMO$82Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $43 across 11 hospitalsVA$43Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $25 across 16 hospitalsTN$25North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $37 across 10 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $15 across 35 hospitalsTX$15Florida: median $43 across 19 hospitalsFL$43
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $42. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ10$6,925+16271%$60 – $10,115
New York NY28$98+130%$55 – $112
Pennsylvania PA19$83+96%$22 – $90
Missouri MO17$82+94%$41 – $82
California CA19$54+29%$45 – $170
Florida FL19$43+2%$13 – $43
Virginia VA11$43+2%$13 – $72
Indiana IN28$38−10%$25 – $62
Oklahoma OK10$37−13%$28 – $50
Tennessee TN16$25−41%$17 – $43
Ohio OH14$21−50%$14 – $63
Texas TX35$15−65%$15 – $15
Michigan MI16$15−65%$15 – $15
Minnesota MN11$13−69%$13 – $13
Iowa IA14$13−70%$13 – $20
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not 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 $42.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care306$45$15 – $90
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access73$21$13 – $42
Ownership
For-profit69$44$15 – $97
Government48$33$17 – $74
Non-profit264$42$15 – $86
System affiliation
Part of a system323$40$15 – $86
Independent60$46$23 – $85

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$78
Median cash price$42
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

292 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $36 and the average of the middle 60% is $35; most fall between $15 and $81.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 292 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
$13$15$36$62$91

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $91).

Of the 302 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 292 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

383 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 401 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted383
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code401

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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Admin Flu Virus Vaccine.

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, “Flu shot administration (CPT G0008) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0008-flu-shot-administration