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Procedure price report · Computerized axial tomography (CT) scan head

CT scan of the eye socket or inner ear, no contrast

CPT 70480the billing code this page is about

A CT scan of the eye sockets, inner ear, or base-of-skull area taken without injected contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $1,161 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,337 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,202. Most fall between $560 and $2,148 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,337
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 3,337 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
$352$650$1,161$1,875$3,288

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($352 vs $3,288).

How the prices are spread

$202 – $279: 69 hospitals$202$279 – $384: 133 hospitals$384 – $529: 253 hospitals$384$529 – $728: 347 hospitals$728 – $1,003: 422 hospitals$728$1,003 – $1,382: 638 hospitals$1,382 – $1,904: 500 hospitals$1,382$1,904 – $2,623: 360 hospitals$2,623 – $3,613: 188 hospitals$2,623$3,613 – $4,977: 95 hospitals$3,613median $1,161price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,005 of 3,337 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$202$27969
$279$384133
$384$529253
$529$728347
$728$1,003422
$1,003$1,382638
$1,382$1,904500
$1,904$2,623360
$2,623$3,613188
$3,613$4,97795

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$1,161
Cash as a multiple of Medicare10.9×

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 $1,161.

Alaska: median $1,875 across 17 hospitalsAK$1,875Maine: median $695 across 25 hospitalsME$695Vermont: median $2,006 across 12 hospitalsVT$2,006New Hampshire: median $1,240 across 21 hospitalsNH$1,240Washington: median $962 across 70 hospitalsWA$962Idaho: median $832 across 22 hospitalsID$832Montana: median $1,141 across 18 hospitalsMT$1,141North Dakota: median $1,427 across 31 hospitalsND$1,427Minnesota: median $995 across 101 hospitalsMN$995Illinois: median $1,740 across 135 hospitalsIL$1,740Wisconsin: median $1,196 across 108 hospitalsWI$1,196Michigan: median $1,112 across 86 hospitalsMI$1,112New York: median $607 across 112 hospitalsNY$607Massachusetts: median $1,061 across 53 hospitalsMA$1,061Oregon: median $1,040 across 46 hospitalsOR$1,040Nevada: median $1,220 across 21 hospitalsNV$1,220Wyoming: median $1,352 across 14 hospitalsWY$1,352South Dakota: median $2,260 across 38 hospitalsSD$2,260Iowa: median $1,310 across 84 hospitalsIA$1,310Indiana: median $712 across 96 hospitalsIN$712Ohio: median $862 across 142 hospitalsOH$862Pennsylvania: median $921 across 113 hospitalsPA$921New Jersey: median $284 across 57 hospitalsNJ$284Connecticut: median $1,181 across 22 hospitalsCT$1,181Rhode Island: median $807 across 10 hospitalsRI$807California: median $2,278 across 212 hospitalsCA$2,278Utah: median $1,319 across 42 hospitalsUT$1,319Colorado: median $1,300 across 66 hospitalsCO$1,300Nebraska: median $2,164 across 81 hospitalsNE$2,164Missouri: median $907 across 75 hospitalsMO$907Kentucky: median $1,118 across 67 hospitalsKY$1,118West Virginia: median $782 across 41 hospitalsWV$782Virginia: median $1,163 across 71 hospitalsVA$1,163Maryland: median $221 across 37 hospitalsMD$221Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $948 across 53 hospitalsAZ$948New Mexico: median $1,067 across 29 hospitalsNM$1,067Kansas: median $1,013 across 86 hospitalsKS$1,013Arkansas: median $596 across 38 hospitalsAR$596Tennessee: median $560 across 78 hospitalsTN$560North Carolina: median $1,273 across 94 hospitalsNC$1,273South Carolina: median $1,442 across 52 hospitalsSC$1,442Oklahoma: median $917 across 71 hospitalsOK$917Louisiana: median $624 across 54 hospitalsLA$624Mississippi: median $660 across 49 hospitalsMS$660Alabama: median $938 across 42 hospitalsAL$938Georgia: median $1,039 across 109 hospitalsGA$1,039Hawaii: median $1,152 across 17 hospitalsHI$1,152Texas: median $1,679 across 239 hospitalsTX$1,679Florida: median $2,572 across 174 hospitalsFL$2,572
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,161. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL174$2,572+121%$1,095 – $9,217
California CA212$2,278+96%$1,073 – $3,592
South Dakota SD38$2,260+95%$1,991 – $2,693
Nebraska NE81$2,164+86%$1,496 – $2,518
Vermont VT12$2,006+73%$1,045 – $3,059
Alaska AK17$1,875+61%$958 – $2,914
Illinois IL135$1,740+50%$800 – $2,744
Texas TX239$1,679+45%$765 – $3,348
South Carolina SC52$1,442+24%$951 – $1,879
North Dakota ND31$1,427+23%$1,175 – $1,772
Wyoming WY14$1,352+16%$649 – $2,047
Utah UT42$1,319+14%$1,067 – $1,846
Iowa IA84$1,310+13%$992 – $1,705
Colorado CO66$1,300+12%$911 – $2,374
North Carolina NC94$1,273+10%$739 – $1,653
New Hampshire NH21$1,240+7%$804 – $3,182
Nevada NV21$1,220+5%$636 – $2,011
Wisconsin WI108$1,196+3%$586 – $1,584
Connecticut CT22$1,181+2%$457 – $1,271
Virginia VA71$1,1630%$628 – $2,592
Hawaii HI17$1,152−1%$993 – $1,431
Montana MT18$1,141−2%$809 – $1,611
Kentucky KY67$1,118−4%$700 – $2,134
Michigan MI86$1,112−4%$497 – $1,838
New Mexico NM29$1,067−8%$724 – $1,631
Massachusetts MA53$1,061−9%$515 – $1,699
Oregon OR46$1,040−10%$738 – $1,450
Georgia GA109$1,039−11%$497 – $1,578
Kansas KS86$1,013−13%$663 – $1,624
Minnesota MN101$995−14%$510 – $1,497
Washington WA70$962−17%$631 – $1,651
Arizona AZ53$948−18%$318 – $5,014
Alabama AL42$938−19%$409 – $1,760
Pennsylvania PA113$921−21%$268 – $2,138
Oklahoma OK71$917−21%$522 – $1,298
Missouri MO75$907−22%$618 – $1,810
Ohio OH142$862−26%$599 – $1,400
Idaho ID22$832−28%$784 – $1,086
Rhode Island RI10$807−31%$177 – $1,041
West Virginia WV41$782−33%$546 – $1,197
Indiana IN96$712−39%$410 – $1,342
Maine ME25$695−40%$384 – $1,382
Mississippi MS49$660−43%$440 – $788
Louisiana LA54$624−46%$321 – $1,211
New York NY112$607−48%$133 – $1,965
Arkansas AR38$596−49%$384 – $818
Tennessee TN78$560−52%$329 – $1,181
New Jersey NJ57$284−76%$125 – $536
Maryland MD37$221−81%$161 – $310
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 $1,161.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,359$1,125$497 – $2,288
Children’s62$1,743$1,126 – $2,804
Critical access906$1,196$682 – $1,896
Ownership
For-profit482$1,679$650 – $6,599
Government603$1,090$581 – $1,784
Non-profit2,242$1,130$532 – $1,991
System affiliation
Part of a system2,744$1,181$560 – $2,256
Independent593$1,099$545 – $1,864

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,980
Median cash price$1,161
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

2,244 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,217 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,254; most fall between $608 and $2,134.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,244 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
$419$712$1,217$1,903$2,843

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($419 vs $2,843).

Of the 2,494 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,244 gave a usable cash price; 141 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,337 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 3,688 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,337
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here229
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 — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code3,688

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 Computerized axial tomography (CT) scan head family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CT Orbit Sella/Post Fossa/Ear W/O Contrast Matrl|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, “CT scan of the eye socket or inner ear, no contrast (CPT 70480) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70480-ct-scan-of-the-eye-socket-or-inner-ear-no-contrast