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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Injection of dye into the shoulder joint for imaging

CPT 23350the billing code this page is about

Contrast material is injected into the shoulder joint so the joint can be seen on X-ray, CT, or MRI images; the imaging itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $387 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,488 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $402. Most fall between $183 and $695 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,488
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,488 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
$119$212$387$598$990

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($119 vs $990).

How the prices are spread

$88 – $117: 114 hospitals$88$117 – $155: 125 hospitals$155 – $205: 220 hospitals$155$205 – $271: 222 hospitals$271 – $359: 332 hospitals$271$359 – $476: 362 hospitals$476 – $631: 420 hospitals$476$631 – $835: 203 hospitals$835 – $1,106: 146 hospitals$835$1,106 – $1,465: 96 hospitals$1,106median $387price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,240 of 2,488 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$88$117114
$117$155125
$155$205220
$205$271222
$271$359332
$359$476362
$476$631420
$631$835203
$835$1,106146
$1,106$1,46596

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $387.

Alaska: median $573 across 10 hospitalsAK$573Maine: median $241 across 17 hospitalsME$241Vermont: median $464 across 12 hospitalsVT$464New Hampshire: median $288 across 18 hospitalsNH$288Washington: median $336 across 56 hospitalsWA$336Idaho: median $407 across 17 hospitalsID$407Montana: median $255 across 21 hospitalsMT$255North Dakota: median $407 across 10 hospitalsND$407Minnesota: median $385 across 86 hospitalsMN$385Illinois: median $444 across 111 hospitalsIL$444Wisconsin: median $356 across 102 hospitalsWI$356Michigan: median $375 across 84 hospitalsMI$375New York: median $264 across 68 hospitalsNY$264Massachusetts: median $347 across 42 hospitalsMA$347Oregon: median $287 across 45 hospitalsOR$287Nevada: median $354 across 15 hospitalsNV$354Wyoming: median $394 across 15 hospitalsWY$394South Dakota: median $322 across 13 hospitalsSD$322Iowa: median $357 across 67 hospitalsIA$357Indiana: median $390 across 77 hospitalsIN$390Ohio: median $495 across 134 hospitalsOH$495Pennsylvania: median $461 across 96 hospitalsPA$461New Jersey: median $900 across 41 hospitalsNJ$900Connecticut: median $500 across 17 hospitalsCT$500Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $660 across 169 hospitalsCA$660Utah: median $497 across 31 hospitalsUT$497Colorado: median $332 across 58 hospitalsCO$332Nebraska: median $425 across 46 hospitalsNE$425Missouri: median $362 across 63 hospitalsMO$362Kentucky: median $339 across 36 hospitalsKY$339West Virginia: median $241 across 29 hospitalsWV$241Virginia: median $517 across 54 hospitalsVA$517Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $231 across 39 hospitalsAZ$231New Mexico: median $320 across 19 hospitalsNM$320Kansas: median $444 across 43 hospitalsKS$444Arkansas: median $189 across 24 hospitalsAR$189Tennessee: median $161 across 55 hospitalsTN$161North Carolina: median $385 across 70 hospitalsNC$385South Carolina: median $390 across 41 hospitalsSC$390Oklahoma: median $172 across 47 hospitalsOK$172Louisiana: median $218 across 43 hospitalsLA$218Mississippi: median $185 across 44 hospitalsMS$185Alabama: median $310 across 36 hospitalsAL$310Georgia: median $395 across 77 hospitalsGA$395Hawaii: median $228 across 15 hospitalsHI$228Texas: median $372 across 159 hospitalsTX$372Florida: median $538 across 99 hospitalsFL$538
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $387. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ41$900+132%$139 – $5,110
California CA169$660+70%$271 – $1,123
Alaska AK10$573+48%$423 – $911
Florida FL99$538+39%$213 – $1,247
Virginia VA54$517+34%$197 – $1,279
Connecticut CT17$500+29%$418 – $725
Utah UT31$497+28%$422 – $515
Ohio OH134$495+28%$258 – $621
Vermont VT12$464+20%$268 – $688
Pennsylvania PA96$461+19%$222 – $934
Illinois IL111$444+15%$206 – $864
Kansas KS43$444+15%$225 – $696
Nebraska NE46$425+10%$284 – $626
North Dakota ND10$407+5%$88 – $554
Idaho ID17$407+5%$311 – $540
Georgia GA77$395+2%$290 – $693
Wyoming WY15$394+2%$162 – $489
South Carolina SC41$390+1%$334 – $759
Indiana IN77$390+1%$187 – $685
Minnesota MN86$3850%$233 – $528
North Carolina NC70$3850%$208 – $564
Michigan MI84$375−3%$161 – $959
Texas TX159$372−4%$204 – $592
Missouri MO63$362−6%$182 – $493
Iowa IA67$357−8%$154 – $526
Wisconsin WI102$356−8%$268 – $531
Nevada NV15$354−9%$131 – $633
Massachusetts MA42$347−10%$130 – $561
Kentucky KY36$339−12%$140 – $566
Washington WA56$336−13%$245 – $539
Colorado CO58$332−14%$182 – $970
South Dakota SD13$322−17%$282 – $752
New Mexico NM19$320−17%$193 – $1,264
Alabama AL36$310−20%$163 – $492
New Hampshire NH18$288−26%$99 – $597
Oregon OR45$287−26%$190 – $751
New York NY68$264−32%$91 – $735
Montana MT21$255−34%$182 – $420
West Virginia WV29$241−38%$97 – $539
Maine ME17$241−38%$118 – $546
Arizona AZ39$231−40%$134 – $1,470
Hawaii HI15$228−41%$181 – $268
Louisiana LA43$218−44%$110 – $850
Arkansas AR24$189−51%$163 – $294
Mississippi MS44$185−52%$120 – $451
Oklahoma OK47$172−56%$96 – $329
Tennessee TN55$161−58%$116 – $262
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $387.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,897$401$192 – $748
Children’s58$336$143 – $921
Critical access523$340$176 – $562
Ownership
For-profit257$450$192 – $874
Government415$317$154 – $538
Non-profit1,806$405$193 – $708
System affiliation
Part of a system2,032$395$190 – $719
Independent456$352$163 – $612

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$663
Median cash price$387
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

1,875 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $422 and the average of the middle 60% is $434; most fall between $206 and $749.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,875 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
$137$249$422$653$1,103

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $1,103).

Of the 2,036 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,875 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,488 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,759 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,488
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here92
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded170
Hospitals that filed this code2,759

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 4, 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 Injection Shoulder Arthrography/ CT/MRI Arthg.

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, “Injection of dye into the shoulder joint for imaging (CPT 23350) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23350-injection-of-dye-into-the-shoulder-joint-for-imaging