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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI tissue measurement of several organs, done on its own

CPT 0697Tthe billing code this page is about

A magnetic resonance study that measures tissue makeup, such as fat or iron, in more than one organ in the same session, billed when no standard diagnostic MRI of those areas is performed.

Hospitals typically charge $645 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 140 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $825. Most fall between $282 and $2,600 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
140
States
20
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – Aug 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 140 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
$162$282$645$1,642$2,929

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($162 vs $2,929).

How the prices are spread

$162 – $216: 13 hospitals$162$216 – $289: 39 hospitals$289 – $386: 1 hospitals$289$386 – $515: 3 hospitals$515 – $688: 18 hospitals$515$688 – $919: 7 hospitals$919 – $1,228: 6 hospitals$919$1,228 – $1,641: 12 hospitals$1,641 – $2,192: 7 hospitals$1,641$2,192 – $2,929: 25 hospitals$2,192median $645price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (131 of 140 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$162$21613
$216$28939
$289$3861
$386$5153
$515$68818
$688$9197
$919$1,2286
$1,228$1,64112
$1,641$2,1927
$2,192$2,92925

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$951
Median cash price$645
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $645.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth 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: median $645 across 14 hospitalsWI$645Michigan: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMINew York: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOHPennsylvania: 7 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: median $2,929 across 20 hospitalsCA$2,929Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $282 across 10 hospitalsCO$282Nebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital 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: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $162 across 21 hospitalsGA$162Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $282 across 31 hospitalsTX$282Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $645. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA20$2,929+354%$2,929 – $2,929
Wisconsin WI14$6450%$645 – $645
Texas TX31$282−56%$282 – $282
Colorado CO10$282−56%$265 – $1,289
Georgia GA21$162−75%$162 – $2,600
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $645.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care132$645$282 – $2,600
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access3fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit18fewer than 20 hospitals
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit102$645$282 – $2,929
System affiliation
Part of a system129$645$282 – $2,600
Independent11fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$964
Median cash price$645
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

124 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $411 and the average of the middle 60% is $639; most fall between $282 and $2,600.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 124 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
$162$282$411$1,268$2,929

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($162 vs $2,929).

Of the 127 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 124 gave a usable cash price; 2 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

140 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 155 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted140
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 code155

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 Tis Compj WO MRI Same Sess Mlt Orgn.

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 several organs, done on its own (CPT 0697T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0697t-mri-tissue-measurement-of-several-organs-done-on-its-own