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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRA of neck blood vessels with contrast

CPT 70548the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance angiography of the blood vessels in the neck performed after contrast dye is given through a vein.

Hospitals typically charge $1,967 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,682 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,019. Most fall between $990 and $3,313 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,682
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 2,682 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
$624$1,148$1,967$2,978$4,756

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($624 vs $4,756).

How the prices are spread

$423 – $555: 78 hospitals$423$555 – $729: 142 hospitals$729 – $958: 170 hospitals$729$958 – $1,259: 241 hospitals$1,259 – $1,654: 330 hospitals$1,259$1,654 – $2,173: 412 hospitals$2,173 – $2,854: 413 hospitals$2,173$2,854 – $3,750: 368 hospitals$3,750 – $4,926: 148 hospitals$3,750$4,926 – $6,472: 118 hospitals$4,926median $1,967price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,420 of 2,682 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$423$55578
$555$729142
$729$958170
$958$1,259241
$1,259$1,654330
$1,654$2,173412
$2,173$2,854413
$2,854$3,750368
$3,750$4,926148
$4,926$6,472118

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$1,967
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.5×

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 $1,967.

Alaska: median $3,077 across 12 hospitalsAK$3,077Maine: median $1,444 across 23 hospitalsME$1,444Vermont: median $2,908 across 10 hospitalsVT$2,908New Hampshire: median $2,062 across 18 hospitalsNH$2,062Washington: median $1,874 across 62 hospitalsWA$1,874Idaho: median $1,994 across 20 hospitalsID$1,994Montana: median $2,184 across 10 hospitalsMT$2,184North Dakota: median $2,445 across 26 hospitalsND$2,445Minnesota: median $1,712 across 69 hospitalsMN$1,712Illinois: median $2,857 across 112 hospitalsIL$2,857Wisconsin: median $1,984 across 95 hospitalsWI$1,984Michigan: median $1,502 across 55 hospitalsMI$1,502New York: median $1,444 across 89 hospitalsNY$1,444Massachusetts: median $2,428 across 46 hospitalsMA$2,428Oregon: median $1,945 across 42 hospitalsOR$1,945Nevada: median $2,056 across 17 hospitalsNV$2,056Wyoming: median $2,458 across 11 hospitalsWY$2,458South Dakota: median $3,287 across 16 hospitalsSD$3,287Iowa: median $2,167 across 56 hospitalsIA$2,167Indiana: median $1,176 across 81 hospitalsIN$1,176Ohio: median $1,648 across 114 hospitalsOH$1,648Pennsylvania: median $1,802 across 100 hospitalsPA$1,802New Jersey: median $710 across 55 hospitalsNJ$710Connecticut: median $1,676 across 13 hospitalsCT$1,676Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,964 across 196 hospitalsCA$2,964Utah: median $2,903 across 37 hospitalsUT$2,903Colorado: median $2,079 across 54 hospitalsCO$2,079Nebraska: median $2,861 across 59 hospitalsNE$2,861Missouri: median $1,773 across 66 hospitalsMO$1,773Kentucky: median $1,434 across 46 hospitalsKY$1,434West Virginia: median $2,005 across 26 hospitalsWV$2,005Virginia: median $1,910 across 61 hospitalsVA$1,910Maryland: median $1,226 across 35 hospitalsMD$1,226Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,119 across 46 hospitalsAZ$1,119New Mexico: median $1,788 across 21 hospitalsNM$1,788Kansas: median $1,362 across 60 hospitalsKS$1,362Arkansas: median $1,069 across 19 hospitalsAR$1,069Tennessee: median $859 across 66 hospitalsTN$859North Carolina: median $2,069 across 70 hospitalsNC$2,069South Carolina: median $2,314 across 43 hospitalsSC$2,314Oklahoma: median $1,074 across 51 hospitalsOK$1,074Louisiana: median $850 across 44 hospitalsLA$850Mississippi: median $1,057 across 43 hospitalsMS$1,057Alabama: median $1,696 across 29 hospitalsAL$1,696Georgia: median $1,739 across 85 hospitalsGA$1,739Hawaii: median $1,855 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,855Texas: median $2,613 across 212 hospitalsTX$2,613Florida: median $3,029 across 140 hospitalsFL$3,029
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,967. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD16$3,287+67%$2,936 – $3,414
Alaska AK12$3,077+56%$2,313 – $5,268
Florida FL140$3,029+54%$1,656 – $8,523
California CA196$2,964+51%$1,731 – $5,551
Vermont VT10$2,908+48%$1,616 – $3,958
Utah UT37$2,903+48%$2,190 – $3,415
Nebraska NE59$2,861+45%$1,676 – $3,647
Illinois IL112$2,857+45%$1,380 – $3,945
Texas TX212$2,613+33%$1,112 – $4,165
Wyoming WY11$2,458+25%$778 – $3,368
North Dakota ND26$2,445+24%$1,912 – $2,985
Massachusetts MA46$2,428+23%$1,368 – $3,431
South Carolina SC43$2,314+18%$1,861 – $3,074
Montana MT10$2,184+11%$1,584 – $2,596
Iowa IA56$2,167+10%$1,568 – $3,186
Colorado CO54$2,079+6%$1,097 – $3,173
North Carolina NC70$2,069+5%$1,617 – $2,506
New Hampshire NH18$2,062+5%$1,504 – $4,937
Nevada NV17$2,056+4%$1,547 – $3,564
West Virginia WV26$2,005+2%$1,352 – $3,413
Idaho ID20$1,994+1%$1,663 – $2,903
Wisconsin WI95$1,984+1%$1,135 – $2,644
Oregon OR42$1,945−1%$1,289 – $2,768
Virginia VA61$1,910−3%$886 – $3,274
Washington WA62$1,874−5%$1,312 – $2,901
Hawaii HI11$1,855−6%$1,601 – $2,594
Pennsylvania PA100$1,802−8%$592 – $4,621
New Mexico NM21$1,788−9%$1,064 – $2,436
Missouri MO66$1,773−10%$1,112 – $2,412
Georgia GA85$1,739−12%$1,351 – $2,740
Minnesota MN69$1,712−13%$731 – $2,766
Alabama AL29$1,696−14%$840 – $2,198
Connecticut CT13$1,676−15%$1,078 – $2,091
Ohio OH114$1,648−16%$1,117 – $2,532
Michigan MI55$1,502−24%$867 – $3,009
Maine ME23$1,444−27%$503 – $2,482
New York NY89$1,444−27%$519 – $4,046
Kentucky KY46$1,434−27%$896 – $3,603
Kansas KS60$1,362−31%$875 – $2,394
Maryland MD35$1,226−38%$612 – $1,695
Indiana IN81$1,176−40%$812 – $2,502
Arizona AZ46$1,119−43%$428 – $3,062
Oklahoma OK51$1,074−45%$624 – $2,051
Arkansas AR19$1,069−46%$661 – $1,927
Mississippi MS43$1,057−46%$852 – $1,822
Tennessee TN66$859−56%$384 – $1,560
Louisiana LA44$850−57%$642 – $1,677
New Jersey NJ55$710−64%$442 – $2,976
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $1,967.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,994$1,854$924 – $3,398
Children’s61$2,756$1,855 – $4,147
Critical access619$2,149$1,133 – $3,122
Ownership
For-profit387$2,613$1,193 – $7,505
Government425$1,867$923 – $2,861
Non-profit1,862$1,890$944 – $3,091
System affiliation
Part of a system2,243$2,002$1,018 – $3,372
Independent439$1,819$880 – $3,030

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,416
Median cash price$1,967
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,854 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,015 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,068; most fall between $1,067 and $3,195.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,854 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
$647$1,238$2,015$2,966$4,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($647 vs $4,210).

Of the 2,054 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,854 gave a usable cash price; 106 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 94 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,682 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,975 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,682
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here191
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code2,975

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 PR MR Angio, Neck W/Contrast.

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, “MRA of neck blood vessels with contrast (CPT 70548) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70548-mra-of-neck-blood-vessels-with-contrast