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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Injection of dye into the ankle joint for imaging

CPT 27648the billing code this page is about

Injection of contrast material into the ankle joint so the joint can be seen on X-ray, CT, or MRI images; covers the injection itself, not the imaging.

Hospitals typically charge $350 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,577 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $366. Most fall between $151 and $690 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,577
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,577 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
$98$179$350$586$1,052

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $1,052).

How the prices are spread

$75 – $105: 104 hospitals$75$105 – $146: 112 hospitals$146 – $203: 153 hospitals$146$203 – $282: 224 hospitals$282 – $393: 185 hospitals$282$393 – $547: 250 hospitals$547 – $762: 213 hospitals$547$762 – $1,060: 103 hospitals$1,060 – $1,476: 41 hospitals$1,060$1,476 – $2,055: 36 hospitals$1,476median $350price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,421 of 1,577 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$75$105104
$105$146112
$146$203153
$203$282224
$282$393185
$393$547250
$547$762213
$762$1,060103
$1,060$1,47641
$1,476$2,05536

By state

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

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $174 across 11 hospitalsNH$174Washington: median $310 across 38 hospitalsWA$310Idaho: median $550 across 17 hospitalsID$550Montana: median $238 across 14 hospitalsMT$238North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $549 across 37 hospitalsMN$549Illinois: median $333 across 76 hospitalsIL$333Wisconsin: median $460 across 71 hospitalsWI$460Michigan: median $637 across 71 hospitalsMI$637New York: median $258 across 48 hospitalsNY$258Massachusetts: median $384 across 26 hospitalsMA$384Oregon: median $309 across 29 hospitalsOR$309Nevada: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $319 across 28 hospitalsIA$319Indiana: median $267 across 60 hospitalsIN$267Ohio: median $375 across 94 hospitalsOH$375Pennsylvania: median $316 across 79 hospitalsPA$316New Jersey: median $1,625 across 31 hospitalsNJ$1,625Connecticut: median $175 across 11 hospitalsCT$175Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $551 across 110 hospitalsCA$551Utah: median $586 across 23 hospitalsUT$586Colorado: median $487 across 43 hospitalsCO$487Nebraska: median $149 across 18 hospitalsNE$149Missouri: median $224 across 35 hospitalsMO$224Kentucky: median $152 across 14 hospitalsKY$152West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $240 across 30 hospitalsVA$240Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $198 across 29 hospitalsAZ$198New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $408 across 13 hospitalsKS$408Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $155 across 24 hospitalsTN$155North Carolina: median $373 across 49 hospitalsNC$373South Carolina: median $696 across 30 hospitalsSC$696Oklahoma: median $126 across 30 hospitalsOK$126Louisiana: median $177 across 23 hospitalsLA$177Mississippi: median $134 across 20 hospitalsMS$134Alabama: median $311 across 21 hospitalsAL$311Georgia: median $363 across 57 hospitalsGA$363Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $405 across 119 hospitalsTX$405Florida: median $228 across 55 hospitalsFL$228
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 NJ31$1,625+364%$115 – $5,110
South Carolina SC30$696+99%$330 – $798
Michigan MI71$637+82%$215 – $895
Utah UT23$586+67%$586 – $690
California CA110$551+57%$215 – $3,707
Idaho ID17$550+57%$350 – $1,365
Minnesota MN37$549+57%$239 – $553
Colorado CO43$487+39%$206 – $939
Wisconsin WI71$460+31%$265 – $611
Kansas KS13$408+16%$213 – $521
Texas TX119$405+16%$184 – $532
Massachusetts MA26$384+10%$115 – $1,145
Ohio OH94$375+7%$209 – $644
North Carolina NC49$373+7%$106 – $731
Georgia GA57$363+4%$268 – $669
Illinois IL76$333−5%$129 – $639
Iowa IA28$319−9%$150 – $491
Pennsylvania PA79$316−10%$89 – $578
Alabama AL21$311−11%$155 – $475
Washington WA38$310−11%$224 – $490
Oregon OR29$309−12%$202 – $750
Indiana IN60$267−24%$146 – $409
New York NY48$258−26%$134 – $520
Virginia VA30$240−32%$121 – $399
Montana MT14$238−32%$222 – $339
Florida FL55$228−35%$84 – $490
Missouri MO35$224−36%$92 – $319
Arizona AZ29$198−44%$155 – $1,578
Louisiana LA23$177−49%$102 – $422
Connecticut CT11$175−50%$148 – $688
New Hampshire NH11$174−50%$61 – $410
Tennessee TN24$155−56%$120 – $332
Kentucky KY14$152−57%$113 – $728
Nebraska NE18$149−57%$100 – $691
Mississippi MS20$134−62%$106 – $407
Oklahoma OK30$126−64%$88 – $261
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 care1,275$348$146 – $690
Children’s50$777$213 – $1,048
Critical access246$337$158 – $582
Ownership
For-profit138$405$171 – $939
Government219$327$139 – $623
Non-profit1,214$345$152 – $690
System affiliation
Part of a system1,313$363$153 – $695
Independent264$305$142 – $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

1,220 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $400 and the average of the middle 60% is $410; most fall between $171 and $731.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,220 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
$106$210$400$654$1,071

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $1,071).

Of the 1,314 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,220 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,577 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,740 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,577
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
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 — excluded107
Hospitals that filed this code1,740

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 Ankle 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, “Injection of dye into the ankle joint for imaging (CPT 27648) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27648-injection-of-dye-into-the-ankle-joint-for-imaging