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

CT of the face and sinuses, before and after contrast

CPT 70488the billing code this page is about

A CT scan of the facial bones, jaws, and sinuses taken first without contrast dye and again after the dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $1,594 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,137 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,648. Most fall between $778 and $2,832 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,137
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 3,137 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
$490$895$1,594$2,475$4,030

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($490 vs $4,030).

How the prices are spread

$265 – $368: 58 hospitals$265$368 – $512: 116 hospitals$512 – $711: 226 hospitals$512$711 – $987: 295 hospitals$987 – $1,372: 469 hospitals$987$1,372 – $1,905: 552 hospitals$1,905 – $2,647: 547 hospitals$1,905$2,647 – $3,678: 342 hospitals$3,678 – $5,109: 149 hospitals$3,678$5,109 – $7,098: 71 hospitals$5,109median $1,594price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,825 of 3,137 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$265$36858
$368$512116
$512$711226
$711$987295
$987$1,372469
$1,372$1,905552
$1,905$2,647547
$2,647$3,678342
$3,678$5,109149
$5,109$7,09871

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$179
Median cash price$1,594
Cash as a multiple of Medicare8.9×

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 $1,594.

Alaska: median $2,785 across 15 hospitalsAK$2,785Maine: median $1,133 across 24 hospitalsME$1,133Vermont: median $2,160 across 12 hospitalsVT$2,160New Hampshire: median $1,708 across 17 hospitalsNH$1,708Washington: median $1,384 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,384Idaho: median $1,421 across 19 hospitalsID$1,421Montana: median $1,579 across 17 hospitalsMT$1,579North Dakota: median $1,602 across 29 hospitalsND$1,602Minnesota: median $1,439 across 72 hospitalsMN$1,439Illinois: median $2,210 across 129 hospitalsIL$2,210Wisconsin: median $1,486 across 100 hospitalsWI$1,486Michigan: median $1,262 across 83 hospitalsMI$1,262New York: median $1,001 across 94 hospitalsNY$1,001Massachusetts: median $1,410 across 47 hospitalsMA$1,410Oregon: median $1,421 across 43 hospitalsOR$1,421Nevada: median $1,342 across 21 hospitalsNV$1,342Wyoming: median $2,109 across 14 hospitalsWY$2,109South Dakota: median $2,812 across 26 hospitalsSD$2,812Iowa: median $1,620 across 71 hospitalsIA$1,620Indiana: median $859 across 94 hospitalsIN$859Ohio: median $1,343 across 136 hospitalsOH$1,343Pennsylvania: median $1,295 across 112 hospitalsPA$1,295New Jersey: median $461 across 57 hospitalsNJ$461Connecticut: median $1,263 across 18 hospitalsCT$1,263Rhode Island: median $1,275 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,275California: median $2,652 across 207 hospitalsCA$2,652Utah: median $2,205 across 40 hospitalsUT$2,205Colorado: median $1,838 across 65 hospitalsCO$1,838Nebraska: median $2,279 across 77 hospitalsNE$2,279Missouri: median $1,515 across 74 hospitalsMO$1,515Kentucky: median $1,396 across 62 hospitalsKY$1,396West Virginia: median $1,303 across 40 hospitalsWV$1,303Virginia: median $1,397 across 64 hospitalsVA$1,397Maryland: median $188 across 36 hospitalsMD$188Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,300 across 53 hospitalsAZ$1,300New Mexico: median $1,750 across 27 hospitalsNM$1,750Kansas: median $1,171 across 78 hospitalsKS$1,171Arkansas: median $895 across 35 hospitalsAR$895Tennessee: median $743 across 75 hospitalsTN$743North Carolina: median $1,918 across 92 hospitalsNC$1,918South Carolina: median $1,901 across 52 hospitalsSC$1,901Oklahoma: median $1,200 across 67 hospitalsOK$1,200Louisiana: median $876 across 54 hospitalsLA$876Mississippi: median $904 across 48 hospitalsMS$904Alabama: median $1,337 across 40 hospitalsAL$1,337Georgia: median $1,302 across 102 hospitalsGA$1,302Hawaii: median $1,380 across 17 hospitalsHI$1,380Texas: median $1,908 across 237 hospitalsTX$1,908Florida: median $3,688 across 166 hospitalsFL$3,688
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,594. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL166$3,688+131%$1,257 – $13,038
South Dakota SD26$2,812+76%$2,475 – $3,373
Alaska AK15$2,785+75%$887 – $3,813
California CA207$2,652+66%$1,347 – $4,353
Nebraska NE77$2,279+43%$1,549 – $2,900
Illinois IL129$2,210+39%$1,275 – $3,585
Utah UT40$2,205+38%$1,335 – $2,205
Vermont VT12$2,160+35%$1,205 – $3,345
Wyoming WY14$2,109+32%$974 – $3,267
North Carolina NC92$1,918+20%$1,273 – $2,612
Texas TX237$1,908+20%$1,216 – $4,103
South Carolina SC52$1,901+19%$1,199 – $2,851
Colorado CO65$1,838+15%$1,152 – $3,225
New Mexico NM27$1,750+10%$1,242 – $2,194
New Hampshire NH17$1,708+7%$1,145 – $3,912
Iowa IA71$1,620+2%$1,295 – $2,131
North Dakota ND29$1,602+1%$1,328 – $1,973
Montana MT17$1,579−1%$1,292 – $2,153
Missouri MO74$1,515−5%$1,015 – $2,414
Wisconsin WI100$1,486−7%$632 – $2,305
Minnesota MN72$1,439−10%$649 – $2,070
Idaho ID19$1,421−11%$1,003 – $1,816
Oregon OR43$1,421−11%$1,074 – $2,315
Massachusetts MA47$1,410−12%$781 – $2,637
Virginia VA64$1,397−12%$887 – $3,889
Kentucky KY62$1,396−12%$910 – $2,992
Washington WA63$1,384−13%$938 – $2,172
Hawaii HI17$1,380−13%$1,215 – $2,193
Ohio OH136$1,343−16%$894 – $1,876
Nevada NV21$1,342−16%$756 – $3,519
Alabama AL40$1,337−16%$610 – $2,739
West Virginia WV40$1,303−18%$885 – $1,964
Georgia GA102$1,302−18%$579 – $2,021
Arizona AZ53$1,300−18%$398 – $5,684
Pennsylvania PA112$1,295−19%$483 – $3,254
Rhode Island RI10$1,275−20%$368 – $1,975
Connecticut CT18$1,263−21%$781 – $2,387
Michigan MI83$1,262−21%$528 – $2,263
Oklahoma OK67$1,200−25%$787 – $2,033
Kansas KS78$1,171−27%$736 – $2,277
Maine ME24$1,133−29%$524 – $2,598
New York NY94$1,001−37%$339 – $2,776
Mississippi MS48$904−43%$625 – $1,200
Arkansas AR35$895−44%$384 – $1,486
Louisiana LA54$876−45%$451 – $1,686
Indiana IN94$859−46%$542 – $1,967
Tennessee TN75$743−53%$571 – $1,643
New Jersey NJ57$461−71%$210 – $1,189
Maryland MD36$188−88%$137 – $264
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 $1,594.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,259$1,573$715 – $3,192
Children’s62$2,278$1,557 – $3,869
Critical access806$1,626$868 – $2,459
Ownership
For-profit466$2,208$1,003 – $7,742
Government558$1,474$743 – $2,301
Non-profit2,103$1,573$741 – $2,650
System affiliation
Part of a system2,594$1,633$787 – $2,949
Independent543$1,452$716 – $2,421

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,737
Median cash price$1,594
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

2,141 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,674 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,698; most fall between $811 and $2,822.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,141 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
$547$991$1,674$2,485$3,688

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($547 vs $3,688).

Of the 2,367 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,141 gave a usable cash price; 122 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,137 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,470 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,137
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here220
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 — excluded112
Hospitals that filed this code3,470

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 Maxillofacial W/O & W/Contrast Material|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 of the face and sinuses, before and after contrast (CPT 70488) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70488-ct-of-the-face-and-sinuses-before-and-after-contrast