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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI tissue measurement of one organ, done on its own

CPT 0648Tthe billing code this page is about

A magnetic resonance scan that measures tissue makeup, such as fat or iron content, in a single organ, billed when no standard diagnostic MRI of that same area is done in the session; includes the report.

Hospitals typically charge $1,137 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 113 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,250. Most fall between $706 and $2,229 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
113
States
25
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – 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 113 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
$491$823$1,137$1,914$2,600

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($491 vs $2,600).

How the prices are spread

$330 – $416: 5 hospitals$330$416 – $525: 8 hospitals$525 – $662: 2 hospitals$525$662 – $836: 12 hospitals$836 – $1,054: 20 hospitals$836$1,054 – $1,330: 18 hospitals$1,330 – $1,677: 9 hospitals$1,330$1,677 – $2,115: 12 hospitals$2,115 – $2,668: 14 hospitals$2,115$2,668 – $3,366: 5 hospitals$2,668median $1,137price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (105 of 113 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$330$4165
$416$5258
$525$6622
$662$83612
$836$1,05420
$1,054$1,33018
$1,330$1,6779
$1,677$2,11512
$2,115$2,66814
$2,668$3,3665

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$951
Median cash price$1,137
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.20×

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 $1,137.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMINew York: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $692 across 14 hospitalsIN$692Ohio: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOHPennsylvania: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 7 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $1,071 across 13 hospitalsCO$1,071Nebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $972 across 18 hospitalsTX$972Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,137. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO13$1,071−6%$852 – $1,739
Texas TX18$972−15%$823 – $1,426
Indiana IN14$692−39%$517 – $935
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,137.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care95$1,130$692 – $1,914
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access10fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government20$1,149$513 – $1,642
Non-profit80$1,149$760 – $2,289
System affiliation
Part of a system98$1,023$692 – $1,914
Independent15fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,457
Median cash price$1,137
Cash as a share of list, median hospital50%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 50%. 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.

How complete is this

113 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 116 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted113
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 — excluded0
Hospitals that filed this code116

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 5, 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.

Related procedures

Part of the Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Quan MR Alys Tiss Compj W/O MRI Same Sess 1orgn.

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, “MRI tissue measurement of one organ, done on its own (CPT 0648T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0648t-mri-tissue-measurement-of-one-organ-done-on-its-own