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Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy Infusion, Each Additional Hour

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 96423

This service delivers a cancer chemotherapy drug directly into an artery through a continuous infusion, covering each additional hour of the infusion beyond the first hour. It is billed in addition to the initial hour of treatment rather than as a stand-alone service. Delivering the drug directly into an artery can concentrate its effect on a specific area of the body, such as a tumor's blood supply.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy Infusion, Each Additional Hour cost?

$87.10

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $87.10 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $83.18 from a physician practice, and about $115 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$83.18$72.44 to $105
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$115$46.77 to $178

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $115 · 10th to 90th $47 to $331Professionalmedian $83 · 10th to 90th $65 to $117
$50$100$200$500facility $115professional $83

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$117.49
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$46.77
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$107.15
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$72.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$169.82
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$125.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$114.82

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.1 times more in Minnesota than in West Virginia. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Louisiana· 30th of 51

$87.10

MN $162WV $75.86

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.