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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the salivary duct with dye injected

CPT 70390the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of a salivary gland duct after contrast dye is placed into it; covers the imaging portion only.

Hospitals typically charge $479 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,325 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $525. Most fall between $268 and $973 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,325
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 1,325 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
$178$296$479$868$1,579

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($178 vs $1,579).

How the prices are spread

$123 – $163: 41 hospitals$123$163 – $217: 85 hospitals$217 – $288: 115 hospitals$217$288 – $383: 179 hospitals$383 – $509: 219 hospitals$383$509 – $677: 182 hospitals$677 – $899: 115 hospitals$677$899 – $1,196: 124 hospitals$1,196 – $1,589: 68 hospitals$1,196$1,589 – $2,113: 65 hospitals$1,589median $479price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,193 of 1,325 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$123$16341
$163$21785
$217$288115
$288$383179
$383$509219
$509$677182
$677$899115
$899$1,196124
$1,196$1,58968
$1,589$2,11365

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$479
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.96×

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 $479.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $516 across 34 hospitalsWA$516Idaho: median $1,001 across 12 hospitalsID$1,001Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $822 across 15 hospitalsMN$822Illinois: median $480 across 55 hospitalsIL$480Wisconsin: median $415 across 43 hospitalsWI$415Michigan: median $396 across 42 hospitalsMI$396New York: median $286 across 53 hospitalsNY$286Massachusetts: median $948 across 27 hospitalsMA$948Oregon: median $560 across 12 hospitalsOR$560Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $292 across 18 hospitalsIA$292Indiana: median $381 across 47 hospitalsIN$381Ohio: median $499 across 71 hospitalsOH$499Pennsylvania: median $487 across 62 hospitalsPA$487New Jersey: median $268 across 22 hospitalsNJ$268Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,119 across 116 hospitalsCA$1,119Utah: median $543 across 24 hospitalsUT$543Colorado: median $543 across 36 hospitalsCO$543Nebraska: median $297 across 12 hospitalsNE$297Missouri: median $456 across 28 hospitalsMO$456Kentucky: median $423 across 27 hospitalsKY$423West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $561 across 26 hospitalsVA$561Maryland: median $101 across 16 hospitalsMD$101Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $286 across 26 hospitalsAZ$286New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $408 across 22 hospitalsKS$408Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $170 across 26 hospitalsTN$170North Carolina: median $359 across 39 hospitalsNC$359South Carolina: median $464 across 19 hospitalsSC$464Oklahoma: median $169 across 27 hospitalsOK$169Louisiana: median $358 across 24 hospitalsLA$358Mississippi: median $221 across 15 hospitalsMS$221Alabama: median $462 across 17 hospitalsAL$462Georgia: median $390 across 31 hospitalsGA$390Hawaii: median $530 across 11 hospitalsHI$530Texas: median $476 across 125 hospitalsTX$476Florida: median $922 across 69 hospitalsFL$922
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $479. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA116$1,119+134%$436 – $1,966
Idaho ID12$1,001+109%$359 – $1,001
Massachusetts MA27$948+98%$382 – $1,194
Florida FL69$922+93%$472 – $3,016
Minnesota MN15$822+72%$232 – $863
Virginia VA26$561+17%$498 – $629
Oregon OR12$560+17%$363 – $721
Utah UT24$543+14%$543 – $543
Colorado CO36$543+13%$292 – $1,447
Hawaii HI11$530+11%$452 – $653
Washington WA34$516+8%$357 – $782
Ohio OH71$499+4%$448 – $920
Pennsylvania PA62$487+2%$251 – $1,257
Illinois IL55$4800%$341 – $1,157
Texas TX125$476−1%$296 – $1,184
South Carolina SC19$464−3%$222 – $717
Alabama AL17$462−4%$265 – $629
Missouri MO28$456−5%$374 – $1,006
Kentucky KY27$423−12%$194 – $1,226
Wisconsin WI43$415−13%$388 – $605
Kansas KS22$408−15%$235 – $1,006
Michigan MI42$396−17%$328 – $805
Georgia GA31$390−19%$164 – $479
Indiana IN47$381−20%$258 – $574
North Carolina NC39$359−25%$253 – $586
Louisiana LA24$358−25%$182 – $466
Nebraska NE12$297−38%$213 – $458
Iowa IA18$292−39%$45 – $448
New York NY53$286−40%$244 – $657
Arizona AZ26$286−40%$180 – $2,064
New Jersey NJ22$268−44%$264 – $405
Mississippi MS15$221−54%$142 – $466
Tennessee TN26$170−65%$124 – $398
Oklahoma OK27$169−65%$30 – $458
Maryland MD16$101−79%$74 – $266
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $479.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,122$479$259 – $991
Children’s32$621$369 – $1,119
Critical access164$470$314 – $770
Ownership
For-profit197$868$296 – $2,064
Government176$423$223 – $641
Non-profit945$476$268 – $917
System affiliation
Part of a system1,138$487$274 – $1,001
Independent187$431$251 – $798

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$883
Median cash price$479
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

952 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $499 and the average of the middle 60% is $546; most fall between $289 and $948.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 952 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
$169$315$499$863$1,378

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($169 vs $1,378).

Of the 1,060 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 952 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 49 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,325 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,496 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,325
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here114
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded56
Hospitals that filed this code1,496

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 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 Sialography Rs&I|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 salivary duct with dye injected (CPT 70390) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70390-x-ray-of-the-salivary-duct-with-dye-injected