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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of eye socket, face, or neck with and without contrast

CPT 70543the billing code this page is about

A magnetic resonance scan of the eye sockets, facial structures, or neck taken first without contrast dye and again after the dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $2,526 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,203 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,584. Most fall between $1,209 and $4,295 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,203
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 3,203 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
$767$1,422$2,526$3,872$6,362

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($767 vs $6,362).

How the prices are spread

$514 – $680: 107 hospitals$514$680 – $901: 166 hospitals$901 – $1,193: 196 hospitals$901$1,193 – $1,580: 291 hospitals$1,580 – $2,093: 387 hospitals$1,580$2,093 – $2,772: 467 hospitals$2,772 – $3,672: 530 hospitals$2,772$3,672 – $4,863: 389 hospitals$4,863 – $6,441: 198 hospitals$4,863$6,441 – $8,531: 152 hospitals$6,441median $2,526price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,883 of 3,203 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$514$680107
$680$901166
$901$1,193196
$1,193$1,580291
$1,580$2,093387
$2,093$2,772467
$2,772$3,672530
$3,672$4,863389
$4,863$6,441198
$6,441$8,531152

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$2,526
Cash as a multiple of Medicare7.1×

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 $2,526.

Alaska: median $3,948 across 13 hospitalsAK$3,948Maine: median $1,685 across 24 hospitalsME$1,685Vermont: median $3,905 across 11 hospitalsVT$3,905New Hampshire: median $3,051 across 21 hospitalsNH$3,051Washington: median $2,446 across 68 hospitalsWA$2,446Idaho: median $2,263 across 22 hospitalsID$2,263Montana: median $2,639 across 16 hospitalsMT$2,639North Dakota: median $3,222 across 33 hospitalsND$3,222Minnesota: median $2,463 across 96 hospitalsMN$2,463Illinois: median $3,496 across 133 hospitalsIL$3,496Wisconsin: median $2,858 across 107 hospitalsWI$2,858Michigan: median $2,668 across 82 hospitalsMI$2,668New York: median $1,638 across 112 hospitalsNY$1,638Massachusetts: median $3,266 across 50 hospitalsMA$3,266Oregon: median $2,672 across 46 hospitalsOR$2,672Nevada: median $2,326 across 18 hospitalsNV$2,326Wyoming: median $2,610 across 12 hospitalsWY$2,610South Dakota: median $4,657 across 27 hospitalsSD$4,657Iowa: median $2,942 across 83 hospitalsIA$2,942Indiana: median $1,291 across 96 hospitalsIN$1,291Ohio: median $2,150 across 127 hospitalsOH$2,150Pennsylvania: median $2,594 across 115 hospitalsPA$2,594New Jersey: median $718 across 58 hospitalsNJ$718Connecticut: median $2,391 across 21 hospitalsCT$2,391Rhode Island: median $2,046 across 10 hospitalsRI$2,046California: median $3,878 across 211 hospitalsCA$3,878Utah: median $4,207 across 40 hospitalsUT$4,207Colorado: median $2,605 across 64 hospitalsCO$2,605Nebraska: median $3,587 across 80 hospitalsNE$3,587Missouri: median $2,125 across 75 hospitalsMO$2,125Kentucky: median $2,169 across 65 hospitalsKY$2,169West Virginia: median $2,103 across 38 hospitalsWV$2,103Virginia: median $3,547 across 71 hospitalsVA$3,547Maryland: median $976 across 36 hospitalsMD$976Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,841 across 49 hospitalsAZ$1,841New Mexico: median $2,200 across 29 hospitalsNM$2,200Kansas: median $1,677 across 83 hospitalsKS$1,677Arkansas: median $843 across 33 hospitalsAR$843Tennessee: median $1,110 across 78 hospitalsTN$1,110North Carolina: median $2,553 across 87 hospitalsNC$2,553South Carolina: median $2,794 across 52 hospitalsSC$2,794Oklahoma: median $1,489 across 60 hospitalsOK$1,489Louisiana: median $1,345 across 52 hospitalsLA$1,345Mississippi: median $1,253 across 47 hospitalsMS$1,253Alabama: median $2,181 across 38 hospitalsAL$2,181Georgia: median $1,969 across 102 hospitalsGA$1,969Hawaii: median $1,952 across 12 hospitalsHI$1,952Texas: median $3,345 across 229 hospitalsTX$3,345Florida: median $4,106 across 165 hospitalsFL$4,106
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,526. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD27$4,657+84%$4,159 – $4,917
Utah UT40$4,207+67%$2,475 – $4,950
Florida FL165$4,106+63%$1,654 – $10,076
Alaska AK13$3,948+56%$2,448 – $5,633
Vermont VT11$3,905+55%$2,369 – $6,006
California CA211$3,878+54%$1,823 – $6,999
Nebraska NE80$3,587+42%$2,791 – $4,116
Virginia VA71$3,547+40%$1,579 – $5,941
Illinois IL133$3,496+38%$1,877 – $5,086
Texas TX229$3,345+32%$1,701 – $5,597
Massachusetts MA50$3,266+29%$1,826 – $4,441
North Dakota ND33$3,222+28%$2,620 – $3,656
New Hampshire NH21$3,051+21%$2,281 – $6,708
Iowa IA83$2,942+16%$2,186 – $4,009
Wisconsin WI107$2,858+13%$1,338 – $3,727
South Carolina SC52$2,794+11%$2,350 – $4,051
Oregon OR46$2,672+6%$1,926 – $3,742
Michigan MI82$2,668+6%$1,652 – $4,039
Montana MT16$2,639+4%$2,060 – $3,471
Wyoming WY12$2,610+3%$970 – $3,998
Colorado CO64$2,605+3%$1,518 – $3,520
Pennsylvania PA115$2,594+3%$669 – $5,750
North Carolina NC87$2,553+1%$1,748 – $4,160
Minnesota MN96$2,463−2%$1,281 – $3,696
Washington WA68$2,446−3%$1,512 – $3,439
Connecticut CT21$2,391−5%$1,671 – $2,843
Nevada NV18$2,326−8%$1,566 – $3,929
Idaho ID22$2,263−10%$1,826 – $2,715
New Mexico NM29$2,200−13%$1,373 – $3,305
Alabama AL38$2,181−14%$1,329 – $4,461
Kentucky KY65$2,169−14%$1,400 – $4,873
Ohio OH127$2,150−15%$1,574 – $2,933
Missouri MO75$2,125−16%$1,346 – $3,591
West Virginia WV38$2,103−17%$1,546 – $3,657
Rhode Island RI10$2,046−19%$744 – $4,247
Georgia GA102$1,969−22%$1,190 – $3,335
Hawaii HI12$1,952−23%$1,543 – $2,813
Arizona AZ49$1,841−27%$506 – $6,547
Maine ME24$1,685−33%$835 – $3,347
Kansas KS83$1,677−34%$773 – $3,058
New York NY112$1,638−35%$726 – $4,014
Oklahoma OK60$1,489−41%$873 – $2,391
Louisiana LA52$1,345−47%$790 – $2,407
Indiana IN96$1,291−49%$832 – $2,959
Mississippi MS47$1,253−50%$852 – $2,087
Tennessee TN78$1,110−56%$669 – $2,435
Maryland MD36$976−61%$662 – $1,489
Arkansas AR33$843−67%$584 – $2,397
New Jersey NJ58$718−72%$421 – $2,090
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 $2,526.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,312$2,406$1,079 – $4,532
Children’s64$3,333$2,827 – $5,748
Critical access817$2,693$1,472 – $3,961
Ownership
For-profit470$3,278$1,346 – $9,603
Government558$2,415$1,209 – $3,668
Non-profit2,165$2,477$1,181 – $4,106
System affiliation
Part of a system2,637$2,597$1,251 – $4,451
Independent566$2,280$1,079 – $3,842

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,292
Median cash price$2,526
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

2,185 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,623 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,670; most fall between $1,351 and $4,247.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,185 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
$841$1,570$2,623$3,874$5,776

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($841 vs $5,776).

Of the 2,415 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,185 gave a usable cash price; 126 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

3,203 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,541 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,203
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here218
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,541

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 & W/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, “MRI of eye socket, face, or neck with and without contrast (CPT 70543) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70543-mri-of-eye-socket-face-or-neck-with-and-without-contrast