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X-ray of the throat and voice box with swallowing study

CPT 70370the billing code this page is about

Moving X-ray imaging of the throat and voice box, including the act of swallowing, with magnified or spot images.

Hospitals typically charge $260 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 553 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $277. Most fall between $103 and $561 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
553
States
48
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 553 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
$67$113$260$481$818

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $818).

How the prices are spread

$33 – $48: 14 hospitals$33$48 – $70: 22 hospitals$70 – $103: 49 hospitals$70$103 – $150: 81 hospitals$150 – $220: 66 hospitals$150$220 – $322: 68 hospitals$322 – $472: 90 hospitals$322$472 – $690: 58 hospitals$690 – $1,011: 40 hospitals$690$1,011 – $1,479: 16 hospitals$1,011median $260price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (504 of 553 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$33$4814
$48$7022
$70$10349
$103$15081
$150$22066
$220$32268
$322$47290
$472$69058
$690$1,01140
$1,011$1,47916

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$260
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $138 across 12 hospitalsWA$138Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $225 across 18 hospitalsIL$225Wisconsin: median $634 across 13 hospitalsWI$634Michigan: median $320 across 30 hospitalsMI$320New York: median $110 across 37 hospitalsNY$110Massachusetts: median $623 across 15 hospitalsMA$623Oregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $33 across 14 hospitalsIA$33Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $174 across 12 hospitalsOH$174Pennsylvania: median $103 across 35 hospitalsPA$103New Jersey: median $113 across 22 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $614 across 65 hospitalsCA$614Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $542 across 14 hospitalsMD$542Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $178 across 18 hospitalsAZ$178New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: median $366 across 13 hospitalsKS$366Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $25 across 13 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $132 across 19 hospitalsGA$132Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $427 across 44 hospitalsTX$427Florida: median $190 across 30 hospitalsFL$190
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
Wisconsin WI13$634+144%$616 – $667
Massachusetts MA15$623+140%$240 – $736
California CA65$614+137%$395 – $818
Maryland MD14$542+109%$359 – $634
Texas TX44$427+65%$247 – $1,657
Kansas KS13$366+41%$165 – $523
Michigan MI30$320+23%$120 – $379
Illinois IL18$225−13%$49 – $400
Florida FL30$190−27%$168 – $502
Arizona AZ18$178−31%$135 – $1,479
Ohio OH12$174−33%$83 – $311
Washington WA12$138−47%$127 – $370
Georgia GA19$132−49%$113 – $188
New Jersey NJ22$113−57%$97 – $659
New York NY37$110−58%$104 – $289
Pennsylvania PA35$103−60%$85 – $179
Iowa IA14$33−87%$33 – $54
Oklahoma OK13$25−90%$25 – $251
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 care461$225$103 – $572
Children’s31$437$174 – $772
Critical access60$317$152 – $405
Ownership
For-profit80$365$113 – $847
Government68$191$104 – $428
Non-profit404$260$103 – $546
System affiliation
Part of a system462$266$104 – $623
Independent91$239$95 – $455

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$470
Median cash price$260
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

400 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $313 and the average of the middle 60% is $313; most fall between $113 and $617.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 400 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
$56$132$313$498$818

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $818).

Of the 460 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 400 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

553 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 636 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted553
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code636

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 Pharynx/Larx W/Fluor&/Magnification Tq|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, “X-ray of the throat and voice box with swallowing study (CPT 70370) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70370-x-ray-of-the-throat-and-voice-box-with-swallowing-study