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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Head X-ray for orthodontic measurement

CPT 70350the billing code this page is about

A standardized side-view X-ray of the skull and face used to take measurements for dental or orthodontic planning.

Hospitals typically charge $113 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 327 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $135. Most fall between $68 and $239 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
327
States
41
Filings dated
Dec 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 327 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
$20$81$113$219$494

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $494).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $19: 8 hospitals$13$19 – $28: 18 hospitals$28 – $41: 7 hospitals$28$41 – $59: 16 hospitals$59 – $86: 23 hospitals$59$86 – $125: 95 hospitals$125 – $181: 45 hospitals$125$181 – $263: 47 hospitals$263 – $382: 15 hospitals$263$382 – $554: 26 hospitals$382median $113price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (300 of 327 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$198
$19$2818
$28$417
$41$5916
$59$8623
$86$12595
$125$18145
$181$26347
$263$38215
$382$55426

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$113
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $113.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $81 across 14 hospitalsIL$81Wisconsin: median $113 across 11 hospitalsWI$113Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $104 across 25 hospitalsNY$104Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $20 across 11 hospitalsIA$20Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $167 across 19 hospitalsOH$167Pennsylvania: median $98 across 30 hospitalsPA$98New Jersey: median $98 across 13 hospitalsNJ$98Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $329 across 40 hospitalsCA$329Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $159 across 11 hospitalsVA$159Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $136 across 15 hospitalsNC$136South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $13 across 10 hospitalsOK$13Louisiana: median $76 across 10 hospitalsLA$76Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $214 across 31 hospitalsTX$214Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $113. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA40$329+192%$239 – $554
Texas TX31$214+90%$94 – $220
Ohio OH19$167+48%$44 – $403
Virginia VA11$159+41%$142 – $159
North Carolina NC15$136+20%$103 – $138
Wisconsin WI11$1130%$105 – $127
New York NY25$104−7%$47 – $109
Pennsylvania PA30$98−13%$6 – $109
New Jersey NJ13$98−13%$97 – $113
Illinois IL14$81−28%$11 – $375
Louisiana LA10$76−32%$42 – $424
Iowa IA11$20−82%$20 – $20
Oklahoma OK10$13−88%$13 – $13
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $113.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care276$111$69 – $239
Children’s26$237$72 – $295
Critical access25$105$25 – $138
Ownership
For-profit31$103$41 – $307
Government27$104$81 – $122
Non-profit269$120$56 – $239
System affiliation
Part of a system284$114$62 – $239
Independent43$102$77 – $207

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$236
Median cash price$113
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

199 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $142 and the average of the middle 60% is $152; most fall between $76 and $239.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 199 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
$20$86$142$239$554

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $554).

Of the 233 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 199 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

327 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 373 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted327
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code373

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 23, 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 Cephalogram Orthodontic|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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Head X-ray for orthodontic measurement (CPT 70350) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70350-head-x-ray-for-orthodontic-measurement