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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Limited X-ray of the facial bones

CPT 70140the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the bones of the face using fewer than three views.

Hospitals typically charge $224 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,920 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $231. Most fall between $111 and $395 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,920
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 2,920 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
$84$129$224$358$602

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($84 vs $602).

How the prices are spread

$61 – $80: 113 hospitals$61$80 – $105: 264 hospitals$105 – $137: 281 hospitals$105$137 – $180: 323 hospitals$180 – $236: 437 hospitals$180$236 – $309: 439 hospitals$309 – $405: 352 hospitals$309$405 – $531: 217 hospitals$531 – $696: 105 hospitals$531$696 – $912: 98 hospitals$696median $224price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,629 of 2,920 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$61$80113
$80$105264
$105$137281
$137$180323
$180$236437
$236$309439
$309$405352
$405$531217
$531$696105
$696$91298

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$224
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 $224.

Alaska: median $309 across 15 hospitalsAK$309Maine: median $134 across 24 hospitalsME$134Vermont: median $410 across 11 hospitalsVT$410New Hampshire: median $211 across 16 hospitalsNH$211Washington: median $216 across 67 hospitalsWA$216Idaho: median $262 across 21 hospitalsID$262Montana: median $185 across 17 hospitalsMT$185North Dakota: median $135 across 26 hospitalsND$135Minnesota: median $177 across 78 hospitalsMN$177Illinois: median $329 across 97 hospitalsIL$329Wisconsin: median $199 across 99 hospitalsWI$199Michigan: median $133 across 76 hospitalsMI$133New York: median $202 across 93 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $286 across 44 hospitalsMA$286Oregon: median $184 across 42 hospitalsOR$184Nevada: median $224 across 16 hospitalsNV$224Wyoming: median $276 across 14 hospitalsWY$276South Dakota: median $316 across 29 hospitalsSD$316Iowa: median $186 across 59 hospitalsIA$186Indiana: median $201 across 80 hospitalsIN$201Ohio: median $251 across 125 hospitalsOH$251Pennsylvania: median $189 across 106 hospitalsPA$189New Jersey: median $113 across 55 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $280 across 21 hospitalsCT$280Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $387 across 216 hospitalsCA$387Utah: median $390 across 37 hospitalsUT$390Colorado: median $244 across 54 hospitalsCO$244Nebraska: median $259 across 62 hospitalsNE$259Missouri: median $215 across 69 hospitalsMO$215Kentucky: median $247 across 57 hospitalsKY$247West Virginia: median $187 across 36 hospitalsWV$187Virginia: median $280 across 68 hospitalsVA$280Maryland: median $159 across 35 hospitalsMD$159Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $96 across 53 hospitalsAZ$96New Mexico: median $204 across 24 hospitalsNM$204Kansas: median $230 across 75 hospitalsKS$230Arkansas: median $104 across 27 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $105 across 71 hospitalsTN$105North Carolina: median $202 across 82 hospitalsNC$202South Carolina: median $248 across 49 hospitalsSC$248Oklahoma: median $178 across 64 hospitalsOK$178Louisiana: median $131 across 48 hospitalsLA$131Mississippi: median $123 across 39 hospitalsMS$123Alabama: median $163 across 37 hospitalsAL$163Georgia: median $229 across 81 hospitalsGA$229Hawaii: median $240 across 18 hospitalsHI$240Texas: median $253 across 221 hospitalsTX$253Florida: median $514 across 150 hospitalsFL$514
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $224. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL150$514+129%$274 – $1,585
Vermont VT11$410+83%$270 – $464
Utah UT37$390+74%$286 – $390
California CA216$387+73%$172 – $718
Illinois IL97$329+47%$114 – $510
South Dakota SD29$316+41%$243 – $469
Alaska AK15$309+38%$150 – $479
Massachusetts MA44$286+28%$175 – $475
Virginia VA68$280+25%$141 – $626
Connecticut CT21$280+25%$134 – $359
Wyoming WY14$276+23%$78 – $374
Idaho ID21$262+17%$135 – $365
Nebraska NE62$259+16%$94 – $333
Texas TX221$253+13%$124 – $678
Ohio OH125$251+12%$147 – $395
South Carolina SC49$248+11%$155 – $290
Kentucky KY57$247+10%$139 – $355
Colorado CO54$244+9%$192 – $381
Hawaii HI18$240+7%$221 – $296
Kansas KS75$230+2%$148 – $314
Georgia GA81$229+2%$113 – $328
Nevada NV16$2240%$94 – $372
Washington WA67$216−4%$156 – $326
Missouri MO69$215−4%$116 – $344
Rhode Island RI10$213−5%$91 – $286
New Hampshire NH16$211−6%$158 – $331
New Mexico NM24$204−9%$124 – $311
North Carolina NC82$202−10%$126 – $275
New York NY93$202−10%$102 – $422
Indiana IN80$201−10%$118 – $293
Wisconsin WI99$199−11%$99 – $282
Pennsylvania PA106$189−16%$103 – $424
West Virginia WV36$187−17%$137 – $259
Iowa IA59$186−17%$145 – $264
Montana MT17$185−17%$140 – $264
Oregon OR42$184−18%$101 – $310
Oklahoma OK64$178−20%$95 – $271
Minnesota MN78$177−21%$69 – $280
Alabama AL37$163−27%$86 – $357
Maryland MD35$159−29%$106 – $205
North Dakota ND26$135−40%$113 – $186
Maine ME24$134−40%$85 – $431
Michigan MI76$133−41%$86 – $330
Louisiana LA48$131−42%$68 – $200
Mississippi MS39$123−45%$83 – $249
New Jersey NJ55$113−50%$88 – $399
Tennessee TN71$105−53%$53 – $234
Arkansas AR27$104−53%$50 – $203
Arizona AZ53$96−57%$81 – $359
Delaware DE6not 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 $224.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,146$228$107 – $450
Children’s60$280$193 – $467
Critical access704$216$119 – $331
Ownership
For-profit431$302$121 – $1,011
Government474$203$111 – $326
Non-profit2,005$218$108 – $390
System affiliation
Part of a system2,454$229$113 – $408
Independent466$203$101 – $348

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$374
Median cash price$224
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

2,032 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $232 and the average of the middle 60% is $242; most fall between $121 and $399.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,032 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$139$232$368$559

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $559).

Of the 2,253 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,032 gave a usable cash price; 121 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,920 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,236 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,920
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here205
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 — excluded111
Hospitals that filed this code3,236

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 July 20, 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 Radex Facial Bones < 3 Views|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “Limited X-ray of the facial bones (CPT 70140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70140-limited-x-ray-of-the-facial-bones