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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of the eye socket, face, or neck without contrast

CPT 70540the billing code this page is about

A magnetic resonance scan of the eye sockets, facial structures, or neck taken without injected contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $1,715 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,098 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,793. Most fall between $842 and $3,097 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,098
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 3,098 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
$531$998$1,715$2,794$4,351

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($531 vs $4,351).

How the prices are spread

$336 – $452: 86 hospitals$336$452 – $608: 176 hospitals$608 – $819: 188 hospitals$608$819 – $1,102: 305 hospitals$1,102 – $1,484: 420 hospitals$1,102$1,484 – $1,998: 486 hospitals$1,998 – $2,690: 452 hospitals$1,998$2,690 – $3,621: 382 hospitals$3,621 – $4,875: 194 hospitals$3,621$4,875 – $6,563: 102 hospitals$4,875median $1,715price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,791 of 3,098 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$336$45286
$452$608176
$608$819188
$819$1,102305
$1,102$1,484420
$1,484$1,998486
$1,998$2,690452
$2,690$3,621382
$3,621$4,875194
$4,875$6,563102

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$1,715
Cash as a multiple of Medicare7.0×

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 $1,715.

Alaska: median $2,648 across 12 hospitalsAK$2,648Maine: median $1,302 across 23 hospitalsME$1,302Vermont: median $2,364 across 11 hospitalsVT$2,364New Hampshire: median $1,811 across 18 hospitalsNH$1,811Washington: median $1,561 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,561Idaho: median $1,701 across 20 hospitalsID$1,701Montana: median $1,770 across 14 hospitalsMT$1,770North Dakota: median $2,074 across 25 hospitalsND$2,074Minnesota: median $1,591 across 86 hospitalsMN$1,591Illinois: median $2,560 across 129 hospitalsIL$2,560Wisconsin: median $1,984 across 101 hospitalsWI$1,984Michigan: median $1,661 across 80 hospitalsMI$1,661New York: median $1,240 across 98 hospitalsNY$1,240Massachusetts: median $2,391 across 49 hospitalsMA$2,391Oregon: median $1,660 across 46 hospitalsOR$1,660Nevada: median $1,429 across 16 hospitalsNV$1,429Wyoming: median $2,045 across 11 hospitalsWY$2,045South Dakota: median $3,555 across 23 hospitalsSD$3,555Iowa: median $2,099 across 68 hospitalsIA$2,099Indiana: median $1,025 across 92 hospitalsIN$1,025Ohio: median $1,694 across 127 hospitalsOH$1,694Pennsylvania: median $1,687 across 115 hospitalsPA$1,687New Jersey: median $499 across 57 hospitalsNJ$499Connecticut: median $1,435 across 21 hospitalsCT$1,435Rhode Island: median $1,381 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,381California: median $2,346 across 213 hospitalsCA$2,346Utah: median $2,794 across 38 hospitalsUT$2,794Colorado: median $2,263 across 64 hospitalsCO$2,263Nebraska: median $2,940 across 75 hospitalsNE$2,940Missouri: median $1,411 across 74 hospitalsMO$1,411Kentucky: median $1,716 across 63 hospitalsKY$1,716West Virginia: median $1,538 across 39 hospitalsWV$1,538Virginia: median $1,928 across 68 hospitalsVA$1,928Maryland: median $741 across 36 hospitalsMD$741Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,007 across 49 hospitalsAZ$1,007New Mexico: median $1,502 across 28 hospitalsNM$1,502Kansas: median $1,350 across 80 hospitalsKS$1,350Arkansas: median $584 across 32 hospitalsAR$584Tennessee: median $805 across 78 hospitalsTN$805North Carolina: median $1,636 across 86 hospitalsNC$1,636South Carolina: median $2,117 across 51 hospitalsSC$2,117Oklahoma: median $1,160 across 58 hospitalsOK$1,160Louisiana: median $875 across 52 hospitalsLA$875Mississippi: median $982 across 48 hospitalsMS$982Alabama: median $1,636 across 34 hospitalsAL$1,636Georgia: median $1,479 across 100 hospitalsGA$1,479Hawaii: median $1,395 across 12 hospitalsHI$1,395Texas: median $2,343 across 230 hospitalsTX$2,343Florida: median $2,632 across 169 hospitalsFL$2,632
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,715. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD23$3,555+107%$2,993 – $4,427
Nebraska NE75$2,940+71%$2,074 – $3,541
Utah UT38$2,794+63%$2,170 – $3,288
Alaska AK12$2,648+54%$1,025 – $3,673
Florida FL169$2,632+53%$1,290 – $7,922
Illinois IL129$2,560+49%$1,210 – $3,907
Massachusetts MA49$2,391+39%$918 – $3,167
Vermont VT11$2,364+38%$1,519 – $3,529
California CA213$2,346+37%$1,170 – $5,439
Texas TX230$2,343+37%$1,206 – $3,392
Colorado CO64$2,263+32%$1,227 – $3,454
South Carolina SC51$2,117+23%$1,400 – $3,025
Iowa IA68$2,099+22%$1,555 – $2,800
North Dakota ND25$2,074+21%$1,724 – $2,616
Wyoming WY11$2,045+19%$863 – $2,893
Wisconsin WI101$1,984+16%$862 – $2,517
Virginia VA68$1,928+12%$840 – $4,420
New Hampshire NH18$1,811+6%$1,356 – $5,204
Montana MT14$1,770+3%$1,232 – $2,205
Kentucky KY63$1,7160%$971 – $3,258
Idaho ID20$1,701−1%$1,323 – $1,914
Ohio OH127$1,694−1%$1,084 – $2,220
Pennsylvania PA115$1,687−2%$464 – $3,799
Michigan MI80$1,661−3%$998 – $3,458
Oregon OR46$1,660−3%$1,417 – $2,209
Alabama AL34$1,636−5%$846 – $3,537
North Carolina NC86$1,636−5%$1,213 – $2,791
Minnesota MN86$1,591−7%$730 – $2,665
Washington WA63$1,561−9%$913 – $2,238
West Virginia WV39$1,538−10%$1,036 – $2,949
New Mexico NM28$1,502−12%$1,185 – $2,413
Georgia GA100$1,479−14%$903 – $2,653
Connecticut CT21$1,435−16%$1,048 – $1,944
Nevada NV16$1,429−17%$924 – $2,468
Missouri MO74$1,411−18%$961 – $2,151
Hawaii HI12$1,395−19%$1,265 – $2,299
Rhode Island RI10$1,381−19%$354 – $2,134
Kansas KS80$1,350−21%$728 – $2,510
Maine ME23$1,302−24%$467 – $2,181
New York NY98$1,240−28%$400 – $2,820
Oklahoma OK58$1,160−32%$499 – $1,805
Indiana IN92$1,025−40%$583 – $2,264
Arizona AZ49$1,007−41%$338 – $4,479
Mississippi MS48$982−43%$570 – $1,519
Louisiana LA52$875−49%$492 – $1,673
Tennessee TN78$805−53%$513 – $1,696
Maryland MD36$741−57%$503 – $1,130
Arkansas AR32$584−66%$571 – $1,279
New Jersey NJ57$499−71%$285 – $1,240
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 $1,715.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,276$1,636$751 – $3,271
Children’s63$2,387$1,644 – $4,174
Critical access749$1,847$998 – $2,870
Ownership
For-profit466$2,352$914 – $7,584
Government531$1,645$875 – $2,705
Non-profit2,091$1,661$803 – $2,893
System affiliation
Part of a system2,553$1,736$859 – $3,173
Independent545$1,636$779 – $2,707

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,984
Median cash price$1,715
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

2,121 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,742 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,827; most fall between $898 and $3,035.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,121 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
$568$1,033$1,742$2,794$4,044

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($568 vs $4,044).

Of the 2,344 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,121 gave a usable cash price; 119 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

3,098 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,424 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,098
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here212
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded110
Hospitals that filed this code3,424

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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Orbit Face &/Neck W/O Contrast|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, “MRI of the eye socket, face, or neck without contrast (CPT 70540) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70540-mri-of-the-eye-socket-face-or-neck-without-contrast