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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Contrast injection into the jaw joint for X-ray imaging

CPT 21116the billing code this page is about

Injection of contrast dye into the temporomandibular (jaw) joint so the joint can be seen on X-ray images; the imaging itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $282 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 483 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $319. Most fall between $103 and $652 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
483
States
47
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 483 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
$68$119$282$555$945

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($68 vs $945).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $73: 34 hospitals$50$73 – $106: 44 hospitals$106 – $153: 36 hospitals$106$153 – $222: 49 hospitals$222 – $322: 74 hospitals$222$322 – $467: 67 hospitals$467 – $676: 61 hospitals$467$676 – $979: 48 hospitals$979 – $1,419: 12 hospitals$979$1,419 – $2,057: 10 hospitals$1,419median $282price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (435 of 483 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$7334
$73$10644
$106$15336
$153$22249
$222$32274
$322$46767
$467$67661
$676$97948
$979$1,41912
$1,419$2,05710

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $282.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $247 across 19 hospitalsIL$247Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $277 across 13 hospitalsNY$277Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $482 across 18 hospitalsIA$482Indiana: median $80 across 17 hospitalsIN$80Ohio: median $220 across 36 hospitalsOH$220Pennsylvania: median $74 across 31 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $3,986 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $875 across 59 hospitalsCA$875Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $413 across 12 hospitalsMO$413Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $118 across 17 hospitalsNC$118South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $74 across 15 hospitalsOK$74Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $451 across 19 hospitalsGA$451Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $236 across 60 hospitalsTX$236Florida: median $303 across 13 hospitalsFL$303
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $282. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$3,986+1313%$69 – $5,419
California CA59$875+210%$489 – $885
Iowa IA18$482+71%$295 – $482
Georgia GA19$451+60%$87 – $1,052
Missouri MO12$413+47%$263 – $644
Florida FL13$303+8%$111 – $755
New York NY13$277−2%$180 – $536
Illinois IL19$247−12%$142 – $579
Texas TX60$236−16%$229 – $376
Ohio OH36$220−22%$154 – $295
North Carolina NC17$118−58%$111 – $402
Indiana IN17$80−71%$64 – $290
Pennsylvania PA31$74−74%$30 – $362
Oklahoma OK15$74−74%$74 – $267
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $282.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care411$284$102 – $644
Children’s20$372$198 – $1,694
Critical access50$267$99 – $510
Ownership
For-profit40$229$118 – $609
Government52$278$87 – $438
Non-profit389$295$103 – $727
System affiliation
Part of a system409$278$103 – $644
Independent74$290$87 – $831

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$450
Median cash price$282
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

362 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $303 and the average of the middle 60% is $340; most fall between $111 and $687.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 362 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
$74$153$303$579$885

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $885).

Of the 392 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 362 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

483 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 543 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted483
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code543

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Injection, Jaw Joint X-Ray.

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, “Contrast injection into the jaw joint for X-ray imaging (CPT 21116) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21116-contrast-injection-into-the-jaw-joint-for-x-ray-imaging