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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the soft tissues of the neck

CPT 70360the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the soft tissue structures of the neck, such as the airway and throat.

Hospitals typically charge $216 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,329 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $225. Most fall between $117 and $378 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,329
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 3,329 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
$85$135$216$333$560

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $560).

How the prices are spread

$62 – $81: 136 hospitals$62$81 – $106: 251 hospitals$106 – $138: 315 hospitals$106$138 – $180: 430 hospitals$180 – $235: 530 hospitals$180$235 – $306: 551 hospitals$306 – $399: 364 hospitals$306$399 – $520: 225 hospitals$520 – $678: 99 hospitals$520$678 – $883: 96 hospitals$678median $216price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,997 of 3,329 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$62$81136
$81$106251
$106$138315
$138$180430
$180$235530
$235$306551
$306$399364
$399$520225
$520$67899
$678$88396

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$216
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 $216.

Alaska: median $318 across 17 hospitalsAK$318Maine: median $164 across 25 hospitalsME$164Vermont: median $409 across 12 hospitalsVT$409New Hampshire: median $212 across 21 hospitalsNH$212Washington: median $208 across 70 hospitalsWA$208Idaho: median $284 across 22 hospitalsID$284Montana: median $162 across 19 hospitalsMT$162North Dakota: median $136 across 33 hospitalsND$136Minnesota: median $162 across 100 hospitalsMN$162Illinois: median $272 across 125 hospitalsIL$272Wisconsin: median $206 across 108 hospitalsWI$206Michigan: median $167 across 84 hospitalsMI$167New York: median $202 across 103 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $300 across 53 hospitalsMA$300Oregon: median $205 across 46 hospitalsOR$205Nevada: median $275 across 20 hospitalsNV$275Wyoming: median $200 across 14 hospitalsWY$200South Dakota: median $335 across 37 hospitalsSD$335Iowa: median $181 across 87 hospitalsIA$181Indiana: median $166 across 92 hospitalsIN$166Ohio: median $221 across 142 hospitalsOH$221Pennsylvania: median $215 across 115 hospitalsPA$215New Jersey: median $113 across 58 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $315 across 218 hospitalsCA$315Utah: median $284 across 40 hospitalsUT$284Colorado: median $238 across 66 hospitalsCO$238Nebraska: median $291 across 83 hospitalsNE$291Missouri: median $209 across 74 hospitalsMO$209Kentucky: median $253 across 67 hospitalsKY$253West Virginia: median $184 across 43 hospitalsWV$184Virginia: median $251 across 71 hospitalsVA$251Maryland: median $159 across 39 hospitalsMD$159Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $107 across 53 hospitalsAZ$107New Mexico: median $238 across 29 hospitalsNM$238Kansas: median $190 across 84 hospitalsKS$190Arkansas: median $69 across 37 hospitalsAR$69Tennessee: median $109 across 78 hospitalsTN$109North Carolina: median $235 across 95 hospitalsNC$235South Carolina: median $268 across 53 hospitalsSC$268Oklahoma: median $178 across 70 hospitalsOK$178Louisiana: median $128 across 54 hospitalsLA$128Mississippi: median $108 across 50 hospitalsMS$108Alabama: median $146 across 42 hospitalsAL$146Georgia: median $163 across 109 hospitalsGA$163Hawaii: median $263 across 19 hospitalsHI$263Texas: median $238 across 241 hospitalsTX$238Florida: median $494 across 173 hospitalsFL$494
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $216. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$494+129%$255 – $1,900
Vermont VT12$409+89%$365 – $570
South Dakota SD37$335+55%$269 – $465
Alaska AK17$318+47%$133 – $589
California CA218$315+46%$178 – $576
Massachusetts MA53$300+39%$186 – $444
Nebraska NE83$291+35%$203 – $361
Idaho ID22$284+32%$172 – $365
Utah UT40$284+32%$193 – $366
Nevada NV20$275+27%$94 – $519
Illinois IL125$272+26%$142 – $418
South Carolina SC53$268+24%$159 – $381
Hawaii HI19$263+22%$221 – $309
Kentucky KY67$253+17%$161 – $354
Virginia VA71$251+16%$127 – $647
Colorado CO66$238+10%$180 – $361
New Mexico NM29$238+10%$149 – $339
Texas TX241$238+10%$166 – $595
North Carolina NC95$235+9%$134 – $289
Ohio OH142$221+2%$168 – $365
Connecticut CT22$2170%$134 – $352
Pennsylvania PA115$2150%$107 – $419
Rhode Island RI10$213−1%$94 – $286
New Hampshire NH21$212−2%$173 – $471
Missouri MO74$209−3%$116 – $317
Washington WA70$208−4%$162 – $297
Wisconsin WI108$206−5%$85 – $280
Oregon OR46$205−5%$94 – $267
New York NY103$202−7%$104 – $336
Wyoming WY14$200−7%$79 – $327
Kansas KS84$190−12%$135 – $293
West Virginia WV43$184−15%$101 – $259
Iowa IA87$181−16%$134 – $261
Oklahoma OK70$178−17%$109 – $243
Michigan MI84$167−22%$105 – $282
Indiana IN92$166−23%$118 – $254
Maine ME25$164−24%$85 – $289
Georgia GA109$163−25%$88 – $324
Minnesota MN100$162−25%$124 – $229
Montana MT19$162−25%$111 – $294
Maryland MD39$159−26%$107 – $205
Alabama AL42$146−33%$85 – $354
North Dakota ND33$136−37%$110 – $193
Louisiana LA54$128−41%$67 – $200
New Jersey NJ58$113−48%$88 – $215
Tennessee TN78$109−50%$69 – $238
Mississippi MS50$108−50%$79 – $144
Arizona AZ53$107−51%$79 – $329
Arkansas AR37$69−68%$44 – $217
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 $216.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,347$220$116 – $420
Children’s65$263$176 – $431
Critical access907$205$114 – $305
Ownership
For-profit482$303$125 – $1,058
Government605$191$105 – $302
Non-profit2,232$213$118 – $359
System affiliation
Part of a system2,739$221$121 – $389
Independent590$194$101 – $316

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$365
Median cash price$216
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

2,279 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $226 and the average of the middle 60% is $233; most fall between $127 and $375.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,279 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
$87$145$226$335$492

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $492).

Of the 2,532 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,279 gave a usable cash price; 142 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,329 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 3,689 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,329
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 — excluded123
Hospitals that filed this code3,689

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 Neck Soft Tissue.

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 soft tissues of the neck (CPT 70360) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70360-x-ray-of-the-soft-tissues-of-the-neck