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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MR angiogram of the head with and without contrast

CPT 70546the billing code this page is about

A magnetic resonance scan of the blood vessels of the head taken first without contrast dye and again after the dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $2,491 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,902 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,530. Most fall between $1,199 and $4,204 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,902
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,902 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
$721$1,400$2,491$3,782$6,028

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($721 vs $6,028).

How the prices are spread

$490 – $650: 106 hospitals$490$650 – $863: 123 hospitals$863 – $1,145: 180 hospitals$863$1,145 – $1,519: 251 hospitals$1,519 – $2,015: 337 hospitals$1,519$2,015 – $2,674: 441 hospitals$2,674 – $3,548: 497 hospitals$2,674$3,548 – $4,707: 363 hospitals$4,707 – $6,245: 192 hospitals$4,707$6,245 – $8,286: 122 hospitals$6,245median $2,491price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,612 of 2,902 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$490$650106
$650$863123
$863$1,145180
$1,145$1,519251
$1,519$2,015337
$2,015$2,674441
$2,674$3,548497
$3,548$4,707363
$4,707$6,245192
$6,245$8,286122

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$2,491
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 $2,491.

Alaska: median $4,095 across 13 hospitalsAK$4,095Maine: median $1,142 across 20 hospitalsME$1,142Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $2,484 across 17 hospitalsNH$2,484Washington: median $2,442 across 65 hospitalsWA$2,442Idaho: median $2,263 across 20 hospitalsID$2,263Montana: median $2,883 across 14 hospitalsMT$2,883North Dakota: median $3,222 across 23 hospitalsND$3,222Minnesota: median $2,246 across 89 hospitalsMN$2,246Illinois: median $3,526 across 126 hospitalsIL$3,526Wisconsin: median $2,564 across 100 hospitalsWI$2,564Michigan: median $2,471 across 79 hospitalsMI$2,471New York: median $1,512 across 103 hospitalsNY$1,512Massachusetts: median $3,049 across 44 hospitalsMA$3,049Oregon: median $2,760 across 45 hospitalsOR$2,760Nevada: median $2,285 across 16 hospitalsNV$2,285Wyoming: median $2,432 across 11 hospitalsWY$2,432South Dakota: median $3,765 across 23 hospitalsSD$3,765Iowa: median $2,852 across 69 hospitalsIA$2,852Indiana: median $1,323 across 87 hospitalsIN$1,323Ohio: median $1,808 across 125 hospitalsOH$1,808Pennsylvania: median $2,768 across 103 hospitalsPA$2,768New Jersey: median $765 across 57 hospitalsNJ$765Connecticut: median $2,124 across 20 hospitalsCT$2,124Rhode Island: median $1,313 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,313California: median $3,924 across 198 hospitalsCA$3,924Utah: median $3,475 across 38 hospitalsUT$3,475Colorado: median $2,993 across 59 hospitalsCO$2,993Nebraska: median $3,505 across 67 hospitalsNE$3,505Missouri: median $2,174 across 67 hospitalsMO$2,174Kentucky: median $2,080 across 56 hospitalsKY$2,080West Virginia: median $2,456 across 37 hospitalsWV$2,456Virginia: median $3,323 across 63 hospitalsVA$3,323Maryland: median $1,775 across 33 hospitalsMD$1,775Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,746 across 45 hospitalsAZ$1,746New Mexico: median $1,991 across 26 hospitalsNM$1,991Kansas: median $1,535 across 64 hospitalsKS$1,535Arkansas: median $860 across 28 hospitalsAR$860Tennessee: median $1,071 across 60 hospitalsTN$1,071North Carolina: median $2,570 across 77 hospitalsNC$2,570South Carolina: median $2,610 across 50 hospitalsSC$2,610Oklahoma: median $1,064 across 45 hospitalsOK$1,064Louisiana: median $1,116 across 40 hospitalsLA$1,116Mississippi: median $1,466 across 41 hospitalsMS$1,466Alabama: median $2,012 across 31 hospitalsAL$2,012Georgia: median $1,902 across 92 hospitalsGA$1,902Hawaii: median $2,258 across 11 hospitalsHI$2,258Texas: median $2,830 across 219 hospitalsTX$2,830Florida: median $4,342 across 163 hospitalsFL$4,342
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,491. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL163$4,342+74%$1,873 – $9,018
Alaska AK13$4,095+64%$1,914 – $5,942
California CA198$3,924+58%$2,188 – $7,344
South Dakota SD23$3,765+51%$3,666 – $4,387
Illinois IL126$3,526+42%$1,788 – $5,552
Nebraska NE67$3,505+41%$2,121 – $4,160
Utah UT38$3,475+39%$2,099 – $4,088
Virginia VA63$3,323+33%$1,284 – $4,181
North Dakota ND23$3,222+29%$2,458 – $3,959
Massachusetts MA44$3,049+22%$1,639 – $4,830
Colorado CO59$2,993+20%$1,312 – $3,682
Montana MT14$2,883+16%$2,094 – $3,750
Iowa IA69$2,852+14%$2,113 – $3,768
Texas TX219$2,830+14%$1,502 – $4,927
Pennsylvania PA103$2,768+11%$592 – $6,218
Oregon OR45$2,760+11%$2,344 – $3,352
South Carolina SC50$2,610+5%$1,380 – $4,560
North Carolina NC77$2,570+3%$1,636 – $3,550
Wisconsin WI100$2,564+3%$1,050 – $3,459
New Hampshire NH17$2,4840%$2,024 – $6,884
Michigan MI79$2,471−1%$1,369 – $4,576
West Virginia WV37$2,456−1%$1,586 – $3,657
Washington WA65$2,442−2%$1,647 – $3,275
Wyoming WY11$2,432−2%$1,534 – $4,184
Nevada NV16$2,285−8%$1,082 – $4,317
Idaho ID20$2,263−9%$1,837 – $2,521
Hawaii HI11$2,258−9%$1,661 – $3,521
Minnesota MN89$2,246−10%$969 – $3,346
Missouri MO67$2,174−13%$1,400 – $3,071
Connecticut CT20$2,124−15%$1,479 – $3,006
Kentucky KY56$2,080−17%$1,434 – $3,771
Alabama AL31$2,012−19%$1,166 – $4,358
New Mexico NM26$1,991−20%$1,399 – $3,236
Georgia GA92$1,902−24%$1,220 – $3,510
Ohio OH125$1,808−27%$1,386 – $2,917
Maryland MD33$1,775−29%$1,355 – $2,472
Arizona AZ45$1,746−30%$552 – $5,179
Kansas KS64$1,535−38%$952 – $3,786
New York NY103$1,512−39%$488 – $4,268
Mississippi MS41$1,466−41%$1,018 – $1,995
Indiana IN87$1,323−47%$832 – $2,753
Rhode Island RI10$1,313−47%$668 – $3,804
Maine ME20$1,142−54%$671 – $3,295
Louisiana LA40$1,116−55%$794 – $2,179
Tennessee TN60$1,071−57%$585 – $2,179
Oklahoma OK45$1,064−57%$832 – $2,482
Arkansas AR28$860−65%$584 – $2,082
New Jersey NJ57$765−69%$421 – $2,090
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $2,491.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,141$2,444$1,102 – $4,425
Children’s63$3,352$2,372 – $5,999
Critical access688$2,553$1,399 – $3,830
Ownership
For-profit411$3,214$1,375 – $9,603
Government464$2,392$1,212 – $3,781
Non-profit2,017$2,439$1,142 – $3,924
System affiliation
Part of a system2,426$2,564$1,229 – $4,258
Independent476$2,210$1,074 – $3,832

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,253
Median cash price$2,491
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

1,994 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,601 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,621; most fall between $1,323 and $4,145.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,994 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
$817$1,566$2,601$3,774$5,766

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($817 vs $5,766).

Of the 2,203 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,994 gave a usable cash price; 111 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,902 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (73%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,206 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,902
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here194
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 — excluded106
Hospitals that filed this code3,206

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 Mra Head 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “MR angiogram of the head with and without contrast (CPT 70546) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70546-mr-angiogram-of-the-head-with-and-without-contrast