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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the skull, limited views

CPT 70250the billing code this page is about

A skull X-ray study using fewer than four views.

Hospitals typically charge $260 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,289 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $271. Most fall between $135 and $458 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,289
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 3,289 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
$98$156$260$407$683

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $683).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $89: 96 hospitals$67$89 – $118: 263 hospitals$118 – $155: 298 hospitals$118$155 – $205: 353 hospitals$205 – $271: 539 hospitals$205$271 – $359: 544 hospitals$359 – $474: 412 hospitals$359$474 – $626: 228 hospitals$626 – $827: 134 hospitals$626$827 – $1,093: 95 hospitals$827median $260price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,962 of 3,289 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$8996
$89$118263
$118$155298
$155$205353
$205$271539
$271$359544
$359$474412
$474$626228
$626$827134
$827$1,09395

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$260
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $260.

Alaska: median $417 across 17 hospitalsAK$417Maine: median $193 across 25 hospitalsME$193Vermont: median $544 across 12 hospitalsVT$544New Hampshire: median $235 across 20 hospitalsNH$235Washington: median $280 across 70 hospitalsWA$280Idaho: median $289 across 21 hospitalsID$289Montana: median $213 across 18 hospitalsMT$213North Dakota: median $168 across 29 hospitalsND$168Minnesota: median $203 across 98 hospitalsMN$203Illinois: median $333 across 124 hospitalsIL$333Wisconsin: median $235 across 106 hospitalsWI$235Michigan: median $187 across 85 hospitalsMI$187New York: median $234 across 98 hospitalsNY$234Massachusetts: median $362 across 51 hospitalsMA$362Oregon: median $270 across 46 hospitalsOR$270Nevada: median $358 across 21 hospitalsNV$358Wyoming: median $288 across 14 hospitalsWY$288South Dakota: median $427 across 32 hospitalsSD$427Iowa: median $205 across 80 hospitalsIA$205Indiana: median $229 across 90 hospitalsIN$229Ohio: median $256 across 143 hospitalsOH$256Pennsylvania: median $263 across 116 hospitalsPA$263New Jersey: median $125 across 57 hospitalsNJ$125Connecticut: median $279 across 22 hospitalsCT$279Rhode Island: median $261 across 10 hospitalsRI$261California: median $389 across 218 hospitalsCA$389Utah: median $416 across 40 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $296 across 65 hospitalsCO$296Nebraska: median $279 across 80 hospitalsNE$279Missouri: median $250 across 76 hospitalsMO$250Kentucky: median $260 across 64 hospitalsKY$260West Virginia: median $207 across 43 hospitalsWV$207Virginia: median $327 across 71 hospitalsVA$327Maryland: median $223 across 40 hospitalsMD$223Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $111 across 53 hospitalsAZ$111New Mexico: median $291 across 29 hospitalsNM$291Kansas: median $225 across 84 hospitalsKS$225Arkansas: median $107 across 37 hospitalsAR$107Tennessee: median $121 across 77 hospitalsTN$121North Carolina: median $275 across 95 hospitalsNC$275South Carolina: median $286 across 52 hospitalsSC$286Oklahoma: median $202 across 69 hospitalsOK$202Louisiana: median $133 across 55 hospitalsLA$133Mississippi: median $116 across 48 hospitalsMS$116Alabama: median $201 across 42 hospitalsAL$201Georgia: median $213 across 108 hospitalsGA$213Hawaii: median $317 across 19 hospitalsHI$317Texas: median $351 across 242 hospitalsTX$351Florida: median $597 across 171 hospitalsFL$597
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $260. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL171$597+129%$343 – $2,046
Vermont VT12$544+109%$437 – $682
South Dakota SD32$427+64%$307 – $550
Alaska AK17$417+60%$229 – $630
Utah UT40$416+60%$257 – $416
California CA218$389+49%$214 – $717
Massachusetts MA51$362+39%$263 – $510
Nevada NV21$358+37%$113 – $578
Texas TX242$351+35%$173 – $738
Illinois IL124$333+28%$152 – $505
Virginia VA71$327+25%$182 – $642
Hawaii HI19$317+22%$271 – $451
Colorado CO65$296+14%$198 – $429
New Mexico NM29$291+12%$180 – $445
Idaho ID21$289+11%$163 – $441
Wyoming WY14$288+11%$79 – $475
South Carolina SC52$286+10%$110 – $412
Washington WA70$280+7%$162 – $381
Connecticut CT22$279+7%$215 – $398
Nebraska NE80$279+7%$144 – $367
North Carolina NC95$275+6%$152 – $323
Oregon OR46$270+4%$115 – $337
Pennsylvania PA116$263+1%$124 – $486
Rhode Island RI10$2610%$149 – $286
Kentucky KY64$2600%$155 – $508
Ohio OH143$256−2%$198 – $417
Missouri MO76$250−4%$163 – $374
Wisconsin WI106$235−10%$104 – $309
New Hampshire NH20$235−10%$194 – $579
New York NY98$234−10%$115 – $457
Indiana IN90$229−12%$172 – $332
Kansas KS84$225−14%$159 – $341
Maryland MD40$223−14%$149 – $281
Montana MT18$213−18%$171 – $271
Georgia GA108$213−18%$106 – $468
West Virginia WV43$207−21%$144 – $373
Iowa IA80$205−21%$144 – $272
Minnesota MN98$203−22%$138 – $298
Oklahoma OK69$202−22%$143 – $316
Alabama AL42$201−23%$123 – $387
Maine ME25$193−26%$103 – $366
Michigan MI85$187−28%$118 – $329
North Dakota ND29$168−35%$136 – $319
Louisiana LA55$133−49%$79 – $221
New Jersey NJ57$125−52%$108 – $243
Tennessee TN77$121−54%$63 – $278
Mississippi MS48$116−55%$71 – $227
Arizona AZ53$111−57%$88 – $369
Arkansas AR37$107−59%$98 – $226
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 $260.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,331$274$134 – $508
Children’s67$288$226 – $550
Critical access881$235$134 – $372
Ownership
For-profit482$374$152 – $1,216
Government595$227$125 – $356
Non-profit2,202$257$135 – $429
System affiliation
Part of a system2,705$268$138 – $477
Independent584$232$116 – $393

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$433
Median cash price$260
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

2,256 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $278 and the average of the middle 60% is $283; most fall between $142 and $450.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,256 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
$98$165$278$412$621

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $621).

Of the 2,502 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,256 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 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,289 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,645 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,289
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here235
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 — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,645

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 Radiologic Examination Skull 4< 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, “X-ray of the skull, limited views (CPT 70250) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70250-x-ray-of-the-skull-limited-views