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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Injection of dye into the spleen for vein imaging

CPT 38200the billing code this page is about

The injection part of an imaging study in which contrast dye is placed into the spleen so the splenic and portal veins can be seen on X-ray.

Hospitals typically charge $522 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 604 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $683. Most fall between $223 and $1,923 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
604
States
46
Filings dated
Aug 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 604 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
$158$256$522$1,490$2,958

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $2,958).

How the prices are spread

$104 – $154: 23 hospitals$104$154 – $227: 68 hospitals$227 – $336: 72 hospitals$227$336 – $495: 101 hospitals$495 – $731: 59 hospitals$495$731 – $1,078: 73 hospitals$1,078 – $1,591: 39 hospitals$1,078$1,591 – $2,347: 50 hospitals$2,347 – $3,463: 37 hospitals$2,347$3,463 – $5,110: 22 hospitals$3,463median $522price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (544 of 604 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$104$15423
$154$22768
$227$33672
$336$495101
$495$73159
$731$1,07873
$1,078$1,59139
$1,591$2,34750
$2,347$3,46337
$3,463$5,11022

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $522.

Alaska: 2 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $397 across 13 hospitalsWA$397Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $342 across 28 hospitalsIL$342Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $202 across 13 hospitalsMI$202New York: median $320 across 16 hospitalsNY$320Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $314 across 16 hospitalsOR$314Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $342 across 16 hospitalsIA$342Indiana: median $593 across 15 hospitalsIN$593Ohio: median $516 across 33 hospitalsOH$516Pennsylvania: median $325 across 23 hospitalsPA$325New Jersey: median $5,110 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $616 across 69 hospitalsCA$616Utah: median $1,923 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,923Colorado: median $197 across 10 hospitalsCO$197Nebraska: median $389 across 11 hospitalsNE$389Missouri: median $2,163 across 15 hospitalsMO$2,163Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $405 across 20 hospitalsVA$405Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $889 across 16 hospitalsAZ$889New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $517 across 12 hospitalsNC$517South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $214 across 12 hospitalsOK$214Louisiana: median $416 across 10 hospitalsLA$416Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $634 across 23 hospitalsGA$634Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $983 across 61 hospitalsTX$983Florida: median $522 across 42 hospitalsFL$522
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $522. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$5,110+880%$3,986 – $6,311
Missouri MO15$2,163+315%$216 – $2,958
Utah UT23$1,923+269%$1,923 – $2,262
Texas TX61$983+88%$208 – $1,257
Arizona AZ16$889+70%$193 – $1,507
Georgia GA23$634+22%$488 – $1,960
California CA69$616+18%$358 – $1,049
Indiana IN15$593+14%$511 – $839
Florida FL42$5220%$191 – $2,197
North Carolina NC12$517−1%$256 – $927
Ohio OH33$516−1%$184 – $805
Louisiana LA10$416−20%$104 – $741
Virginia VA20$405−22%$308 – $2,525
Washington WA13$397−24%$360 – $811
Nebraska NE11$389−25%$270 – $541
Iowa IA16$342−35%$342 – $342
Illinois IL28$342−35%$169 – $2,619
Pennsylvania PA23$325−38%$83 – $788
New York NY16$320−39%$167 – $410
Oregon OR16$314−40%$233 – $3,183
Oklahoma OK12$214−59%$214 – $214
Michigan MI13$202−61%$158 – $357
Colorado CO10$197−62%$53 – $544
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $522.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care531$517$216 – $1,923
Children’s26$979$286 – $1,912
Critical access43$536$290 – $1,923
Ownership
For-profit55$843$270 – $1,912
Government59$386$191 – $929
Non-profit486$514$232 – $1,960
System affiliation
Part of a system539$541$232 – $1,960
Independent65$360$197 – $1,080

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$979
Median cash price$522
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

471 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $486 and the average of the middle 60% is $631; most fall between $214 and $1,912.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 471 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
$144$255$486$1,298$2,525

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($144 vs $2,525).

Of the 513 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 471 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

604 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 689 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted604
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
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 — excluded58
Hospitals that filed this code689

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 Splenoportograpy.

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, “Injection of dye into the spleen for vein imaging (CPT 38200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38200-injection-of-dye-into-the-spleen-for-vein-imaging