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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the inner ear canals

CPT 70134the billing code this page is about

Complete X-ray study of the internal auditory canals, the bony passages carrying the hearing and balance nerves.

Hospitals typically charge $380 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 576 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $456. Most fall between $159 and $1,045 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
576
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 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 576 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
$86$185$380$799$1,495

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $1,495).

How the prices are spread

$49 – $71: 18 hospitals$49$71 – $104: 25 hospitals$104 – $151: 40 hospitals$104$151 – $219: 56 hospitals$219 – $319: 48 hospitals$219$319 – $464: 104 hospitals$464 – $675: 81 hospitals$464$675 – $981: 56 hospitals$981 – $1,427: 59 hospitals$981$1,427 – $2,075: 35 hospitals$1,427median $380price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (522 of 576 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$49$7118
$71$10425
$104$15140
$151$21956
$219$31948
$319$464104
$464$67581
$675$98156
$981$1,42759
$1,427$2,07535

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$558
Median cash price$380
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $380.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $353 across 26 hospitalsIL$353Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $649 across 38 hospitalsNY$649Massachusetts: median $414 across 12 hospitalsMA$414Oregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $36 across 16 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $356 across 28 hospitalsOH$356Pennsylvania: median $438 across 24 hospitalsPA$438New Jersey: median $607 across 14 hospitalsNJ$607Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,081 across 80 hospitalsCA$1,081Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $234 across 10 hospitalsKY$234West Virginia: median $283 across 14 hospitalsWV$283Virginia: median $169 across 15 hospitalsVA$169Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $159 across 15 hospitalsAZ$159New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $243 across 22 hospitalsTN$243North Carolina: median $342 across 21 hospitalsNC$342South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $28 across 11 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: median $183 across 17 hospitalsLA$183Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $183 across 16 hospitalsGA$183Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $328 across 54 hospitalsTX$328Florida: median $1,260 across 36 hospitalsFL$1,260
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $380. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL36$1,260+232%$558 – $3,074
California CA80$1,081+185%$607 – $1,495
New York NY38$649+71%$120 – $682
New Jersey NJ14$607+60%$607 – $707
Pennsylvania PA24$438+15%$292 – $613
Massachusetts MA12$414+9%$272 – $818
Ohio OH28$356−6%$278 – $1,224
Illinois IL26$353−7%$97 – $608
North Carolina NC21$342−10%$317 – $534
Texas TX54$328−14%$322 – $925
West Virginia WV14$283−26%$169 – $1,424
Tennessee TN22$243−36%$71 – $276
Kentucky KY10$234−38%$50 – $373
Georgia GA16$183−52%$111 – $760
Louisiana LA17$183−52%$82 – $261
Virginia VA15$169−55%$169 – $609
Arizona AZ15$159−58%$126 – $235
Iowa IA16$36−91%$36 – $173
Oklahoma OK11$28−93%$28 – $185
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $380.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care478$421$162 – $1,058
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access84$302$133 – $557
Ownership
For-profit91$721$196 – $2,116
Government76$296$129 – $649
Non-profit407$356$159 – $986
System affiliation
Part of a system493$371$156 – $1,048
Independent83$490$171 – $904

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$599
Median cash price$380
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

377 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $339 and the average of the middle 60% is $411; most fall between $133 and $1,017.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 377 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
$50$168$339$760$1,310

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $1,310).

Of the 428 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 377 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

576 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 666 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted576
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code666

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 Middle Ear.

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, “X-ray of the inner ear canals (CPT 70134) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70134-x-ray-of-the-inner-ear-canals