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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Complete X-ray of the nasal bones

CPT 70160the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the bones of the nose using three or more views.

Hospitals typically charge $245 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,308 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $253. Most fall between $124 and $426 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,308
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 3,308 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$145$245$373$649

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $649).

How the prices are spread

$68 – $90: 193 hospitals$68$90 – $118: 239 hospitals$118 – $154: 306 hospitals$118$154 – $202: 394 hospitals$202 – $265: 518 hospitals$202$265 – $348: 526 hospitals$348 – $456: 375 hospitals$348$456 – $598: 193 hospitals$598 – $785: 139 hospitals$598$785 – $1,029: 98 hospitals$785median $245price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,981 of 3,308 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$68$90193
$90$118239
$118$154306
$154$202394
$202$265518
$265$348526
$348$456375
$456$598193
$598$785139
$785$1,02998

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$245
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $245.

Alaska: median $375 across 17 hospitalsAK$375Maine: median $201 across 25 hospitalsME$201Vermont: median $437 across 12 hospitalsVT$437New Hampshire: median $270 across 21 hospitalsNH$270Washington: median $248 across 70 hospitalsWA$248Idaho: median $289 across 21 hospitalsID$289Montana: median $192 across 20 hospitalsMT$192North Dakota: median $152 across 31 hospitalsND$152Minnesota: median $204 across 98 hospitalsMN$204Illinois: median $302 across 125 hospitalsIL$302Wisconsin: median $237 across 103 hospitalsWI$237Michigan: median $162 across 87 hospitalsMI$162New York: median $202 across 101 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $320 across 51 hospitalsMA$320Oregon: median $221 across 46 hospitalsOR$221Nevada: median $272 across 21 hospitalsNV$272Wyoming: median $248 across 14 hospitalsWY$248South Dakota: median $325 across 34 hospitalsSD$325Iowa: median $205 across 87 hospitalsIA$205Indiana: median $199 across 89 hospitalsIN$199Ohio: median $261 across 143 hospitalsOH$261Pennsylvania: median $245 across 116 hospitalsPA$245New Jersey: median $117 across 57 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $215 across 22 hospitalsCT$215Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $407 across 217 hospitalsCA$407Utah: median $344 across 41 hospitalsUT$344Colorado: median $243 across 66 hospitalsCO$243Nebraska: median $314 across 81 hospitalsNE$314Missouri: median $208 across 75 hospitalsMO$208Kentucky: median $294 across 67 hospitalsKY$294West Virginia: median $179 across 43 hospitalsWV$179Virginia: median $278 across 71 hospitalsVA$278Maryland: median $223 across 39 hospitalsMD$223Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $116 across 53 hospitalsAZ$116New Mexico: median $236 across 28 hospitalsNM$236Kansas: median $223 across 82 hospitalsKS$223Arkansas: median $104 across 37 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $109 across 77 hospitalsTN$109North Carolina: median $274 across 95 hospitalsNC$274South Carolina: median $313 across 52 hospitalsSC$313Oklahoma: median $189 across 70 hospitalsOK$189Louisiana: median $128 across 54 hospitalsLA$128Mississippi: median $121 across 50 hospitalsMS$121Alabama: median $191 across 42 hospitalsAL$191Georgia: median $235 across 110 hospitalsGA$235Hawaii: median $253 across 19 hospitalsHI$253Texas: median $275 across 239 hospitalsTX$275Florida: median $609 across 173 hospitalsFL$609
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $245. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$609+149%$256 – $2,159
Vermont VT12$437+78%$351 – $624
California CA217$407+66%$211 – $693
Alaska AK17$375+53%$283 – $641
Utah UT41$344+41%$210 – $344
South Dakota SD34$325+33%$252 – $474
Massachusetts MA51$320+31%$230 – $430
Nebraska NE81$314+28%$224 – $385
South Carolina SC52$313+28%$137 – $425
Illinois IL125$302+23%$188 – $548
Kentucky KY67$294+20%$161 – $384
Idaho ID21$289+18%$143 – $365
Virginia VA71$278+13%$174 – $512
Texas TX239$275+12%$152 – $785
North Carolina NC95$274+12%$151 – $373
Nevada NV21$272+11%$117 – $578
New Hampshire NH21$270+10%$216 – $572
Ohio OH143$261+7%$167 – $395
Hawaii HI19$253+3%$227 – $411
Washington WA70$248+1%$162 – $350
Wyoming WY14$248+1%$84 – $427
Pennsylvania PA116$2450%$113 – $457
Colorado CO66$243−1%$175 – $446
Wisconsin WI103$237−3%$74 – $333
New Mexico NM28$236−4%$150 – $340
Georgia GA110$235−4%$82 – $377
Maryland MD39$223−9%$149 – $281
Kansas KS82$223−9%$162 – $330
Oregon OR46$221−10%$112 – $301
Connecticut CT22$215−12%$118 – $426
Rhode Island RI10$213−13%$94 – $286
Missouri MO75$208−15%$126 – $358
Iowa IA87$205−16%$149 – $289
Minnesota MN98$204−17%$113 – $295
New York NY101$202−18%$104 – $401
Maine ME25$201−18%$97 – $381
Indiana IN89$199−19%$127 – $321
Montana MT20$192−22%$176 – $266
Alabama AL42$191−22%$86 – $373
Oklahoma OK70$189−23%$112 – $273
West Virginia WV43$179−27%$121 – $259
Michigan MI87$162−34%$116 – $302
North Dakota ND31$152−38%$121 – $205
Louisiana LA54$128−48%$79 – $202
Mississippi MS50$121−51%$65 – $168
New Jersey NJ57$117−52%$97 – $230
Arizona AZ53$116−53%$84 – $398
Tennessee TN77$109−56%$68 – $323
Arkansas AR37$104−57%$77 – $231
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 $245.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,340$252$120 – $484
Children’s60$358$233 – $486
Critical access898$228$129 – $345
Ownership
For-profit477$328$144 – $1,186
Government602$206$109 – $342
Non-profit2,219$243$125 – $403
System affiliation
Part of a system2,720$252$127 – $446
Independent588$214$108 – $365

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$406
Median cash price$245
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,264 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $258 and the average of the middle 60% is $262; most fall between $135 and $423.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,264 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
$92$155$258$379$601

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $601).

Of the 2,511 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,264 gave a usable cash price; 138 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,308 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,667 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,308
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here236
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,667

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 PR X-Ray Nasal Bones.

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 nasal bones (CPT 70160) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70160-complete-x-ray-of-the-nasal-bones