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Chemotherapy started in clinic, continued at home by pump

HCPCS G0498the billing code this page is about

Covers starting an intravenous chemotherapy infusion in the office or clinic using a portable pump and supplies, with the infusion continuing more than eight hours after the patient leaves.

Hospitals typically charge $693 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 137 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $701. Most fall between $470 and $996 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
137
States
33
Filings dated
Nov 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 137 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
$273$539$693$851$2,257

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($273 vs $2,257).

How the prices are spread

$208 – $277: 12 hospitals$208$277 – $369: 4 hospitals$369 – $492: 11 hospitals$369$492 – $655: 34 hospitals$655 – $874: 41 hospitals$655$874 – $1,165: 7 hospitals$1,165 – $1,553: 4 hospitals$1,165$1,553 – $2,070: 2 hospitals$2,070 – $2,760: 12 hospitals$2,070$2,760 – $3,679: 5 hospitals$2,760median $693price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (132 of 137 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$208$27712
$277$3694
$369$49211
$492$65534
$655$87441
$874$1,1657
$1,165$1,5534
$1,553$2,0702
$2,070$2,76012
$2,760$3,6795

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$337
Median cash price$693
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $693.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $551 across 13 hospitalsMI$551New 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $700 across 17 hospitalsIN$700Ohio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,194 across 12 hospitalsPA$2,194New Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $815 across 15 hospitalsTX$815Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $693. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA12$2,194+217%$615 – $3,679
Texas TX15$815+18%$815 – $851
Indiana IN17$700+1%$617 – $929
Michigan MI13$551−20%$208 – $635
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $693.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care116$693$505 – $1,197
Critical access21$704$244 – $929
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government9fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit119$693$470 – $1,197
System affiliation
Part of a system123$700$442 – $1,165
Independent14fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,197
Median cash price$693
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

103 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $693 and the average of the middle 60% is $705; most fall between $470 and $937.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 103 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
$266$545$693$851$2,257

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($266 vs $2,257).

Of the 104 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 103 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

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

What the 138 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted137
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code138

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 14, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Chemo extend iv infus w/pump.

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, “Chemotherapy started in clinic, continued at home by pump (CPT G0498) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0498-chemotherapy-started-in-clinic-continued-at-home-by-pump