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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Injection of dye into the penis for X-ray imaging

CPT 54230the billing code this page is about

Injection of contrast material into the erection chambers of the penis so the blood vessels can be imaged; covers the injection only, not the X-ray reading.

Hospitals typically charge $315 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 344 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $381. Most fall between $139 and $781 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
344
States
40
Filings dated
Dec 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 344 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
$105$172$315$715$2,616

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $2,616).

How the prices are spread

$76 – $115: 27 hospitals$76$115 – $174: 46 hospitals$174 – $264: 56 hospitals$174$264 – $400: 64 hospitals$400 – $607: 30 hospitals$400$607 – $921: 44 hospitals$921 – $1,397: 11 hospitals$921$1,397 – $2,119: 11 hospitals$2,119 – $3,214: 14 hospitals$2,119$3,214 – $4,876: 11 hospitals$3,214median $315price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (314 of 344 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$76$11527
$115$17446
$174$26456
$264$40064
$400$60730
$607$92144
$921$1,39711
$1,397$2,11911
$2,119$3,21414
$3,214$4,87611

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $315.

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: median $173 across 13 hospitalsWA$173Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $142 across 15 hospitalsIL$142Wisconsin: median $377 across 12 hospitalsWI$377Michigan: median $122 across 12 hospitalsMI$122New York: median $106 across 10 hospitalsNY$106Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $250 across 14 hospitalsIA$250Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $1,706 across 22 hospitalsOH$1,706Pennsylvania: median $715 across 26 hospitalsPA$715New Jersey: median $4,627 across 16 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $276 across 37 hospitalsCA$276Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $132 across 11 hospitalsOK$132Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $330 across 32 hospitalsTX$330Florida: median $454 across 24 hospitalsFL$454
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $315. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ16$4,627+1371%$3,786 – $5,741
Ohio OH22$1,706+442%$348 – $2,616
Pennsylvania PA26$715+127%$54 – $955
Florida FL24$454+44%$186 – $454
Wisconsin WI12$377+20%$377 – $377
Texas TX32$330+5%$315 – $781
California CA37$276−12%$276 – $712
Iowa IA14$250−21%$250 – $250
Washington WA13$173−45%$132 – $435
Illinois IL15$142−55%$76 – $223
Oklahoma OK11$132−58%$132 – $132
Michigan MI12$122−61%$105 – $377
New York NY10$106−66%$70 – $450
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $315.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care306$315$135 – $781
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$377$185 – $454
Ownership
For-profit29$377$93 – $678
Government34$200$154 – $728
Non-profit278$330$140 – $781
System affiliation
Part of a system293$331$148 – $781
Independent51$196$125 – $609

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$514
Median cash price$315
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

275 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $330 and the average of the middle 60% is $401; most fall between $157 and $781.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 275 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
$131$183$330$715$1,706

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $1,706).

Of the 316 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 275 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 7 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

344 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 405 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted344
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code405

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 Corpora Cavernosograpy.

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 penis for X-ray imaging (CPT 54230) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54230-injection-of-dye-into-the-penis-for-x-ray-imaging