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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Complete X-ray of the mastoid bones behind the ear

CPT 70130the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the mastoid bone behind the ear using three or more views per side.

Hospitals typically charge $271 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,044 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $283. Most fall between $133 and $502 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,044
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 2,044 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
$103$154$271$441$778

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($103 vs $778).

How the prices are spread

$80 – $104: 110 hospitals$80$104 – $134: 198 hospitals$134 – $174: 180 hospitals$134$174 – $226: 200 hospitals$226 – $293: 341 hospitals$226$293 – $381: 293 hospitals$381 – $494: 186 hospitals$381$494 – $641: 183 hospitals$641 – $831: 59 hospitals$641$831 – $1,078: 91 hospitals$831median $271price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,841 of 2,044 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$80$104110
$104$134198
$134$174180
$174$226200
$226$293341
$293$381293
$381$494186
$494$641183
$641$83159
$831$1,07891

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$271
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $271.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $238 across 20 hospitalsME$238Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $282 across 38 hospitalsWA$282Idaho: median $441 across 11 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $284 across 11 hospitalsMT$284North Dakota: median $244 across 12 hospitalsND$244Minnesota: median $214 across 30 hospitalsMN$214Illinois: median $338 across 85 hospitalsIL$338Wisconsin: median $253 across 43 hospitalsWI$253Michigan: median $144 across 60 hospitalsMI$144New York: median $241 across 78 hospitalsNY$241Massachusetts: median $384 across 33 hospitalsMA$384Oregon: median $215 across 19 hospitalsOR$215Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $231 across 10 hospitalsWY$231South Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $282 across 47 hospitalsIA$282Indiana: median $240 across 64 hospitalsIN$240Ohio: median $322 across 100 hospitalsOH$322Pennsylvania: median $244 across 74 hospitalsPA$244New Jersey: median $123 across 50 hospitalsNJ$123Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $584 across 145 hospitalsCA$584Utah: median $255 across 29 hospitalsUT$255Colorado: median $332 across 46 hospitalsCO$332Nebraska: median $289 across 39 hospitalsNE$289Missouri: median $248 across 44 hospitalsMO$248Kentucky: median $249 across 51 hospitalsKY$249West Virginia: median $265 across 29 hospitalsWV$265Virginia: median $267 across 46 hospitalsVA$267Maryland: median $319 across 28 hospitalsMD$319Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $236 across 30 hospitalsAZ$236New Mexico: median $286 across 13 hospitalsNM$286Kansas: median $266 across 36 hospitalsKS$266Arkansas: median $108 across 15 hospitalsAR$108Tennessee: median $115 across 50 hospitalsTN$115North Carolina: median $259 across 62 hospitalsNC$259South Carolina: median $248 across 28 hospitalsSC$248Oklahoma: median $152 across 42 hospitalsOK$152Louisiana: median $157 across 39 hospitalsLA$157Mississippi: median $125 across 28 hospitalsMS$125Alabama: median $215 across 23 hospitalsAL$215Georgia: median $140 across 64 hospitalsGA$140Hawaii: median $338 across 13 hospitalsHI$338Texas: median $286 across 192 hospitalsTX$286Florida: median $596 across 108 hospitalsFL$596
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $271. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL108$596+120%$283 – $1,809
California CA145$584+116%$232 – $961
Idaho ID11$441+63%$249 – $441
Massachusetts MA33$384+42%$226 – $526
Hawaii HI13$338+25%$292 – $464
Illinois IL85$338+25%$181 – $531
Colorado CO46$332+23%$207 – $488
Ohio OH100$322+19%$232 – $524
Maryland MD28$319+18%$194 – $422
Nebraska NE39$289+7%$211 – $433
Texas TX192$286+6%$174 – $629
New Mexico NM13$286+6%$136 – $531
Montana MT11$284+5%$197 – $340
Washington WA38$282+4%$220 – $645
Iowa IA47$282+4%$180 – $392
Virginia VA46$267−2%$154 – $381
Kansas KS36$266−2%$149 – $364
West Virginia WV29$265−2%$183 – $368
North Carolina NC62$259−4%$191 – $280
Utah UT29$255−6%$255 – $288
Wisconsin WI43$253−6%$85 – $414
Kentucky KY51$249−8%$143 – $922
South Carolina SC28$248−8%$89 – $425
Missouri MO44$248−8%$139 – $374
North Dakota ND12$244−10%$130 – $534
Pennsylvania PA74$244−10%$133 – $502
New York NY78$241−11%$126 – $477
Indiana IN64$240−11%$158 – $333
Maine ME20$238−12%$115 – $457
Arizona AZ30$236−13%$142 – $452
Wyoming WY10$231−15%$84 – $305
Alabama AL23$215−20%$99 – $289
Oregon OR19$215−21%$38 – $324
Minnesota MN30$214−21%$114 – $253
Louisiana LA39$157−42%$79 – $256
Oklahoma OK42$152−44%$94 – $295
Michigan MI60$144−47%$113 – $245
Georgia GA64$140−48%$95 – $333
Mississippi MS28$125−54%$109 – $310
New Jersey NJ50$123−54%$110 – $243
Tennessee TN50$115−58%$69 – $198
Arkansas AR15$108−60%$88 – $219
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $271.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,549$272$126 – $524
Children’s33$431$186 – $656
Critical access457$266$154 – $436
Ownership
For-profit284$348$146 – $1,285
Government344$245$123 – $382
Non-profit1,411$263$135 – $488
System affiliation
Part of a system1,695$278$136 – $509
Independent349$244$123 – $488

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$448
Median cash price$271
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

1,426 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $282 and the average of the middle 60% is $295; most fall between $142 and $494.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,426 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$174$282$442$705

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $705).

Of the 1,589 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,426 gave a usable cash price; 84 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,044 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,285 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,044
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded84
Hospitals that filed this code2,285

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 PR X-Ray Mastoids 3+ Vw.

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, “Complete X-ray of the mastoid bones behind the ear (CPT 70130) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70130-complete-x-ray-of-the-mastoid-bones-behind-the-ear