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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Contrast injection for elbow joint X-ray imaging

CPT 24220the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $350 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,955 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $363. Most fall between $168 and $674 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,955
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,955 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
$118$195$350$558$995

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $995).

How the prices are spread

$83 – $113: 80 hospitals$83$113 – $154: 155 hospitals$154 – $210: 215 hospitals$154$210 – $286: 248 hospitals$286 – $390: 281 hospitals$286$390 – $531: 352 hospitals$531 – $724: 173 hospitals$531$724 – $987: 147 hospitals$987 – $1,345: 78 hospitals$987$1,345 – $1,833: 35 hospitals$1,345median $350price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,764 of 1,955 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$83$11380
$113$154155
$154$210215
$210$286248
$286$390281
$390$531352
$531$724173
$724$987147
$987$1,34578
$1,345$1,83335

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $350.

Alaska: median $423 across 10 hospitalsAK$423Maine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $170 across 14 hospitalsNH$170Washington: median $375 across 42 hospitalsWA$375Idaho: median $418 across 16 hospitalsID$418Montana: median $298 across 15 hospitalsMT$298North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $320 across 60 hospitalsMN$320Illinois: median $333 across 79 hospitalsIL$333Wisconsin: median $345 across 87 hospitalsWI$345Michigan: median $546 across 74 hospitalsMI$546New York: median $246 across 55 hospitalsNY$246Massachusetts: median $375 across 33 hospitalsMA$375Oregon: median $296 across 38 hospitalsOR$296Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $190 across 10 hospitalsSD$190Iowa: median $270 across 33 hospitalsIA$270Indiana: median $343 across 69 hospitalsIN$343Ohio: median $335 across 118 hospitalsOH$335Pennsylvania: median $461 across 97 hospitalsPA$461New Jersey: median $892 across 39 hospitalsNJ$892Connecticut: median $383 across 15 hospitalsCT$383Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $476 across 141 hospitalsCA$476Utah: median $405 across 26 hospitalsUT$405Colorado: median $281 across 44 hospitalsCO$281Nebraska: median $247 across 24 hospitalsNE$247Missouri: median $309 across 49 hospitalsMO$309Kentucky: median $237 across 20 hospitalsKY$237West Virginia: median $375 across 10 hospitalsWV$375Virginia: median $393 across 43 hospitalsVA$393Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $200 across 33 hospitalsAZ$200New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $372 across 31 hospitalsKS$372Arkansas: median $202 across 18 hospitalsAR$202Tennessee: median $132 across 39 hospitalsTN$132North Carolina: median $373 across 55 hospitalsNC$373South Carolina: median $485 across 37 hospitalsSC$485Oklahoma: median $178 across 35 hospitalsOK$178Louisiana: median $237 across 33 hospitalsLA$237Mississippi: median $184 across 36 hospitalsMS$184Alabama: median $321 across 33 hospitalsAL$321Georgia: median $449 across 65 hospitalsGA$449Hawaii: median $213 across 11 hospitalsHI$213Texas: median $398 across 137 hospitalsTX$398Florida: median $325 across 74 hospitalsFL$325
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $350. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ39$892+155%$87 – $4,881
Michigan MI74$546+56%$168 – $1,053
South Carolina SC37$485+38%$263 – $991
California CA141$476+36%$264 – $2,652
Pennsylvania PA97$461+32%$145 – $667
Georgia GA65$449+28%$294 – $733
Alaska AK10$423+21%$297 – $580
Idaho ID16$418+19%$285 – $764
Utah UT26$405+15%$405 – $476
Texas TX137$398+14%$212 – $498
Virginia VA43$393+12%$121 – $538
Connecticut CT15$383+9%$275 – $997
Washington WA42$375+7%$263 – $552
Massachusetts MA33$375+7%$169 – $907
West Virginia WV10$375+7%$183 – $485
North Carolina NC55$373+6%$144 – $671
Kansas KS31$372+6%$271 – $456
Wisconsin WI87$345−2%$236 – $569
Indiana IN69$343−2%$158 – $499
Ohio OH118$335−5%$212 – $767
Illinois IL79$333−5%$208 – $693
Florida FL74$325−7%$128 – $552
Alabama AL33$321−8%$126 – $763
Minnesota MN60$320−9%$201 – $514
Missouri MO49$309−12%$163 – $469
Montana MT15$298−15%$95 – $309
Oregon OR38$296−16%$219 – $739
Colorado CO44$281−20%$180 – $632
Iowa IA33$270−23%$138 – $533
Nebraska NE24$247−30%$165 – $372
New York NY55$246−30%$99 – $544
Louisiana LA33$237−32%$114 – $707
Kentucky KY20$237−32%$140 – $320
Hawaii HI11$213−39%$139 – $277
Arkansas AR18$202−42%$132 – $303
Arizona AZ33$200−43%$147 – $931
South Dakota SD10$190−46%$190 – $590
Mississippi MS36$184−47%$108 – $495
Oklahoma OK35$178−49%$113 – $317
New Hampshire NH14$170−51%$83 – $597
Tennessee TN39$132−62%$62 – $281
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $350.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,580$359$162 – $682
Children’s57$372$263 – $1,056
Critical access313$312$173 – $554
Ownership
For-profit179$398$171 – $897
Government277$306$156 – $516
Non-profit1,494$354$170 – $681
System affiliation
Part of a system1,625$356$165 – $680
Independent330$331$176 – $657

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$600
Median cash price$350
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

1,527 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $390 and the average of the middle 60% is $394; most fall between $173 and $734.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,527 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
$121$204$390$630$1,030

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($121 vs $1,030).

Of the 1,649 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,527 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,955 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,160 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,955
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code2,160

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 Procedure for Elbow Arthrography.

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 for elbow joint X-ray imaging (CPT 24220) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24220-contrast-injection-for-elbow-joint-x-ray-imaging