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Unscheduled dialysis session in a hospital

HCPCS G0257the billing code this page is about

One unscheduled hemodialysis treatment given in a hospital outpatient setting to a patient with end-stage kidney disease who normally dialyzes elsewhere.

Hospitals typically charge $1,174 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 246 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,308. Most fall between $611 and $1,952 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
246
States
37
Filings dated
Jun 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 246 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
$386$662$1,174$1,898$2,109

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($386 vs $2,109).

How the prices are spread

$261 – $343: 2 hospitals$261$343 – $449: 16 hospitals$449 – $589: 16 hospitals$449$589 – $772: 23 hospitals$772 – $1,012: 34 hospitals$772$1,012 – $1,327: 29 hospitals$1,327 – $1,740: 30 hospitals$1,327$1,740 – $2,281: 60 hospitals$2,281 – $2,990: 9 hospitals$2,281$2,990 – $3,920: 3 hospitals$2,990median $1,174price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (222 of 246 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$261$3432
$343$44916
$449$58916
$589$77223
$772$1,01234
$1,012$1,32729
$1,327$1,74030
$1,740$2,28160
$2,281$2,9909
$2,990$3,9203

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$701
Median cash price$1,174
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.67×

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 $1,174.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,538 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,538Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $662 across 13 hospitalsMI$662New York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $261 across 22 hospitalsIN$261Ohio: median $1,791 across 11 hospitalsOH$1,791Pennsylvania: median $4,158 across 13 hospitalsPA$4,158New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $1,898 across 22 hospitalsUT$1,898Colorado: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $888 across 12 hospitalsVA$888Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $373 across 12 hospitalsTN$373North Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 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 $1,748 across 30 hospitalsTX$1,748Florida: median $1,174 across 20 hospitalsFL$1,174
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,174. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$4,158+254%$1,568 – $4,509
Utah UT22$1,898+62%$1,898 – $2,109
Ohio OH11$1,791+53%$1,316 – $1,828
Texas TX30$1,748+49%$790 – $1,952
Illinois IL13$1,538+31%$1,050 – $1,845
Florida FL20$1,1740%$611 – $1,174
Virginia VA12$888−24%$638 – $1,321
Michigan MI13$662−44%$403 – $817
Tennessee TN12$373−68%$373 – $1,227
Indiana IN22$261−78%$184 – $1,613
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $1,174.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care212$1,174$623 – $1,952
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$1,316$289 – $1,850
Ownership
For-profit36$1,174$470 – $1,898
Government21$611$373 – $1,188
Non-profit187$1,321$734 – $1,952
System affiliation
Part of a system221$1,227$611 – $1,952
Independent25$1,146$677 – $1,586

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,193
Median cash price$1,174
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

191 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,425 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,398; most fall between $651 and $1,952.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 191 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
$527$790$1,425$1,898$2,109

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($527 vs $2,109).

Of the 201 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 191 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 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

246 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 259 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted246
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here0
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code259

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 Unsched dialysis esrd pt hos.

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, “Unscheduled dialysis session in a hospital (CPT G0257) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0257-unscheduled-dialysis-session-in-a-hospital