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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Limited X-ray of the sinuses

CPT 70210the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the air spaces around the nose and eyes using fewer than three views.

Hospitals typically charge $200 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,931 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $209. Most fall between $105 and $351 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,931
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,931 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
$76$121$200$317$511

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $511).

How the prices are spread

$57 – $75: 146 hospitals$57$75 – $98: 213 hospitals$98 – $128: 272 hospitals$98$128 – $168: 383 hospitals$168 – $219: 499 hospitals$168$219 – $287: 399 hospitals$287 – $375: 365 hospitals$287$375 – $491: 180 hospitals$491 – $641: 110 hospitals$491$641 – $839: 74 hospitals$641median $200price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,641 of 2,931 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$57$75146
$75$98213
$98$128272
$128$168383
$168$219499
$219$287399
$287$375365
$375$491180
$491$641110
$641$83974

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$200
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $200.

Alaska: median $256 across 16 hospitalsAK$256Maine: median $137 across 22 hospitalsME$137Vermont: median $464 across 11 hospitalsVT$464New Hampshire: median $166 across 16 hospitalsNH$166Washington: median $215 across 69 hospitalsWA$215Idaho: median $266 across 21 hospitalsID$266Montana: median $186 across 18 hospitalsMT$186North Dakota: median $146 across 27 hospitalsND$146Minnesota: median $148 across 92 hospitalsMN$148Illinois: median $240 across 99 hospitalsIL$240Wisconsin: median $173 across 102 hospitalsWI$173Michigan: median $134 across 77 hospitalsMI$134New York: median $202 across 88 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $307 across 42 hospitalsMA$307Oregon: median $188 across 41 hospitalsOR$188Nevada: median $222 across 19 hospitalsNV$222Wyoming: median $195 across 14 hospitalsWY$195South Dakota: median $299 across 28 hospitalsSD$299Iowa: median $162 across 58 hospitalsIA$162Indiana: median $186 across 82 hospitalsIN$186Ohio: median $224 across 129 hospitalsOH$224Pennsylvania: median $215 across 111 hospitalsPA$215New Jersey: median $114 across 47 hospitalsNJ$114Connecticut: median $226 across 15 hospitalsCT$226Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $257 across 209 hospitalsCA$257Utah: median $332 across 35 hospitalsUT$332Colorado: median $200 across 64 hospitalsCO$200Nebraska: median $251 across 75 hospitalsNE$251Missouri: median $194 across 63 hospitalsMO$194Kentucky: median $198 across 55 hospitalsKY$198West Virginia: median $192 across 39 hospitalsWV$192Virginia: median $211 across 62 hospitalsVA$211Maryland: median $181 across 34 hospitalsMD$181Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $99 across 51 hospitalsAZ$99New Mexico: median $202 across 23 hospitalsNM$202Kansas: median $180 across 67 hospitalsKS$180Arkansas: median $66 across 33 hospitalsAR$66Tennessee: median $98 across 72 hospitalsTN$98North Carolina: median $173 across 83 hospitalsNC$173South Carolina: median $203 across 51 hospitalsSC$203Oklahoma: median $160 across 56 hospitalsOK$160Louisiana: median $125 across 49 hospitalsLA$125Mississippi: median $82 across 38 hospitalsMS$82Alabama: median $180 across 42 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $196 across 85 hospitalsGA$196Hawaii: median $240 across 18 hospitalsHI$240Texas: median $225 across 222 hospitalsTX$225Florida: median $372 across 145 hospitalsFL$372
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $200. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT11$464+132%$355 – $548
Florida FL145$372+86%$169 – $1,230
Utah UT35$332+66%$214 – $332
Massachusetts MA42$307+53%$171 – $417
South Dakota SD28$299+49%$243 – $365
Idaho ID21$266+32%$131 – $365
California CA209$257+28%$172 – $571
Alaska AK16$256+28%$178 – $485
Nebraska NE75$251+25%$188 – $326
Illinois IL99$240+20%$108 – $383
Hawaii HI18$240+20%$180 – $295
Connecticut CT15$226+12%$118 – $360
Texas TX222$225+12%$148 – $604
Ohio OH129$224+12%$153 – $395
Nevada NV19$222+11%$94 – $550
Pennsylvania PA111$215+7%$103 – $443
Washington WA69$215+7%$128 – $304
Rhode Island RI10$213+6%$94 – $286
Virginia VA62$211+5%$144 – $500
South Carolina SC51$203+1%$84 – $302
New Mexico NM23$202+1%$153 – $242
New York NY88$202+1%$100 – $315
Colorado CO64$2000%$138 – $366
Kentucky KY55$198−1%$95 – $354
Georgia GA85$196−2%$83 – $417
Wyoming WY14$195−3%$80 – $323
Missouri MO63$194−3%$119 – $288
West Virginia WV39$192−4%$119 – $333
Oregon OR41$188−6%$104 – $274
Montana MT18$186−7%$140 – $219
Indiana IN82$186−7%$114 – $247
Maryland MD34$181−10%$117 – $241
Alabama AL42$180−10%$83 – $276
Kansas KS67$180−10%$130 – $280
North Carolina NC83$173−14%$120 – $258
Wisconsin WI102$173−14%$77 – $283
New Hampshire NH16$166−17%$130 – $551
Iowa IA58$162−19%$108 – $208
Oklahoma OK56$160−20%$71 – $251
Minnesota MN92$148−26%$99 – $222
North Dakota ND27$146−27%$120 – $241
Maine ME22$137−32%$85 – $289
Michigan MI77$134−33%$86 – $302
Louisiana LA49$125−38%$79 – $194
New Jersey NJ47$114−43%$96 – $215
Arizona AZ51$99−51%$80 – $281
Tennessee TN72$98−51%$52 – $199
Mississippi MS38$82−59%$48 – $162
Arkansas AR33$66−67%$58 – $190
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 $200.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,140$202$103 – $377
Children’s62$279$195 – $462
Critical access721$189$106 – $305
Ownership
For-profit428$275$122 – $855
Government490$173$97 – $275
Non-profit2,005$198$104 – $339
System affiliation
Part of a system2,450$203$105 – $362
Independent481$182$102 – $318

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$342
Median cash price$200
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

2,059 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $209 and the average of the middle 60% is $218; most fall between $113 and $354.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,059 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
$76$133$209$326$482

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $482).

Of the 2,273 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,059 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 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,931 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 3,240 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,931
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here208
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 — excluded100
Hospitals that filed this code3,240

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 Sinuses Paranasal <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 sinuses (CPT 70210) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70210-limited-x-ray-of-the-sinuses